Seems like a dumb Q , but I don't see reefers anymore....
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phil gresho posted:Seems like a dumb Q , but I don't see reefers anymore....
Then you aren't watching closely enough, as both the BNSF and UP handle many modern, diesel powered refrigerator cars plus MANY, MANY refrigerated trailers on flatcars, i.e. "piggy-backs".
I see LOTS of BNSF 'piggy backs' with refrigerated trailers on them here in the KC area. Sometimes it's an entire train of these.
Here are two YouTube videos on a regular west coast to east coast unit produce train.(UP and CSX joint deal):
Produce Unit Train Links West Coast Farmers with East Coast Food Distributors Part 1
Update: Produce Unit Train Links West Coast Farmers with East Coast Food Distributors Part 2
Scott K.
Today's refrigerator cars aren't your father's refrigerator cars:
Rusty
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw many trucks on I-80 in Ne. with apples on flatbeds.
CSX still brings 'the juice' up from Florida to NJ, although it's not it's own dedicated train anymore.
Thx, guys, for filling me in. Much appreciated! I After thinking it over, I believe the reason that I don't see them is my location: NW corner of Oregon....Far from the producers and far from the customers!
Rusty Traque posted:Today's refrigerator cars aren't your father's refrigerator cars:
Rusty
I am begging Atlas to do these in O scale as they have HO tooling. Lionel or MTH would be ok too, but I would really like to see Atlas do it.
Will Ebbert posted:Rusty Traque posted:Today's refrigerator cars aren't your father's refrigerator cars:
Rusty
I am begging Atlas to do these in O scale as they have HO tooling. Lionel or MTH would be ok too, but I would really like to see Atlas do it.
Oh, yes please!!! The lack of some of truly modern cars such as these in O Scale, along with locos such as GP38-2 & GP40 (& CF7 while I'm on my soapbox) is just staggering compared to the smaller scales. No wonder there's talk of O Scale 'dying out' in the USA!!
In New York City at the Hunts Point food mart they get daily delivery of big white UP Reefers.
See theses cars on the UP in Sioux City, IA daily, 275 miles north of Kansas City.
Dick
Silver Lake posted:In New York City at the Hunts Point food mart they get daily delivery of big white UP Reefers.
Didn't they just rehab and expand it? Doubling, or tripling, the number of reefers that can be served daily? Or, the money has been budgeted?
During the season both BNSF and UP have UNIT trains running through Klamath Falls OR. Lots of those artic boxes. Russ
Railex in Wallula, WA just up stream on the Columbia River from the pulp paper plant, ships trains weekly. It is a quiet operation, you see the trains going into the building and being shunted to staging sidings, then gone.
Phil, they run along Columbia on UP , you might have some produce emanating from your area around Tillamook, but it would be trucked most likely to packing houses. Onions, Potatoes, corn and wheat also leave WA, OR and Idaho year round. My trucking company would load right next to reefers on the rails in Boardman, Paterson, Pasco, Wenatchee, Prosser, Selah and Yakima year round.
Gentlemen,
If they ever quit, both NYC and Phily will not have enough Fruit or Veggies to supply either big city for even a day.
PCRR/Dave
