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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in December 2007
This is a digital shot Dad took in Etowah a few days ago using a small point-and-shoot of my brothers. It's smaller than most of the shots of his (or mine) I post because of the camera's limitations.
Several Cryo-Trans reefer cars made up part of a CSX freight idling through the Christmas holiday in the Etowah, TN yard on December 24, 2007.
The company was founded on December 7, 1906 as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
At one point was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world. The cars were all retired by the late 1950s, among the last wooden reefers in PFE's fleet.
ARGENTINEAN REEFER
...ex TAVEUNI
DNK
OWNERS: Rederiet Ocean A/S
Port of Registry: DNK Esbjerg
IDNo:5023239
Year:1941
Name:ARGENTINEAN REEFER
Keel:
Type:Cargo ship (ref)
Launch Date:20.4.40
Flag:DNK
Date of completion:8.1.41
Tons:2826
Link:1004
DWT:3355
Yard No:67
Length overall:114.0
Ship Design:
LPP:107.3
Country of build:DNK
Beam:15.7
Builder:Aalborg Vaerft
Material of build:
Location of yard:Aalborg
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn):2D-15.5
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A:*
End:1973
Subsequent History:
[commissioned 7.45] - 68 TAVEUNI - 72 WAN LEE
Disposal Data:
BU Kaohsiung 23.4.73 [Chow's Iron & Steel Corp]
Details: Mirimar Ship Index
Photo Credits: With many thanks to the late Walter E. Frost and families
Performances of "Reefer Madness, The Musical" are continuing to sell out — Friday, Nov. 13's 7:30 p.m. show is sold out, as are performances on Saturday, Nov. 14 (7:30 p.m.), Sunday, Nov. 15, and Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Purchasing tickets in advance at the University Box Office, 530-898-6333, is recommended.
"Reefer Madness" has performances through Thursday, Nov. 19, with the exception of Monday, Nov. 16 when the theatre is "black." If you are out and about the evening of Friday, Nov. 13 you might want to come to Wismer Theatre for a special midnight performance of the musical.
More information on our production of "Reefer Madness" is available at bit.ly/1MaAeO8.
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"Reefer Madness" dress rehearsal photos by Chico State University Photographer Jason Halley.
Reefer vessel 'Star Care' carrying fruit from the Carribean enters Dover Harbour with a DFDS ferry following.
Former numbers are coming through strong on this fiberglass reefer. Even some of the old UPFE yellow is making an appearance.
How do you get a 13,000 lb narrow gauge reefer car off a photo freight and onto a truck? The stock answer is very carefully!
As great as it looks out on the rails, the WW&F Museum's Turner Centre Reefer Car #65 wasn't built for photo freights. It was built primarily to act as a display in the nearby Village of Wiscasset, and to lure passers-by on US Rt 1 into taking a short ride to Alna to visit the museum. In order to accomplish her mission, the reefer car needed to come off the rails in Alna and be put on a flat-bed trailer before heading south. Museum crews used Diesel Locomotive #52 to take the the car off a photo freight run earlier in the day, and set it at the end of a spur track. There, the riggers had built an inclined section of track, running from the spur all the way up onto the trailer. A power winch on the trailer would then pull the car off the spur and up the inclined track. The trickiest part would be the transition from the spur to the incline. For that, a small fixture was hastily constructed by the museum staff to smooth the transition and hold the two tracks in perfect alignment.
This photo depicts the critical moment when the lead truck made the transition. The steel cable is completely taut. The man with the blue hat looking very concerned is WW&F Superintendent Jason Lamontagne. Ever so slowly, the car made the perilous climb up onto the trailer with museum staffers placing trigs behind the wheels as she went. You can see the then WW&F Museum President Steve Zuppa at the back of the car, looking like he's pushing it all by his lonesome. In just about 20 minutes, the car was in place, and the riggers were tying it down for the ride to Wiscasset.