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Re: (erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #2

Pat and list, I remember the wine trains well in Modesto, California. I went through this area a couple of times a week on business. I would venture through the Modesto & Empire Traction switching district and see strings of these along with plenty of Santa Fe Bx-218's which were the 62' beer reefers. When camping at my favorite train hot spot, I would watch 100+ car unit trains traversing Tehachapi Loop, on an every other day basis. I believe LNAC was also involved in the wine train pool with their blue Evans Blue Island reefers.
As far as decals Herald King and others made numerous sets covering these cars.
Rich Christie

On Saturday, August 26, 2017, 7:23:41 PM CDT, Patrick Moore <pat.moore_@_att.net> wrote:


List...

United States Railway Equipment Company (reporting mark USLX) leased a large number of 52' double plug door insulated boxcars to the E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, CA.  The cars were about as "plain jane" as could be, painted red with white lettering and no identifying marks to signify their lease to Gallo.  As a result, these cars probably just blended right in, even though they were a mainstay in train SF-100, usually with small groups of them hauling Gallo Wine to the New York metropolitan area.  Empty cars went back in train AF-97 or SF-99.  The cars themselves were constructed by Evans/USRE in the early 1970s.  Most of them fell within the number range 10573 - 11249.  The consist sheets had 58 examples, which would have been good enough to place at #43 in the Hot 100.

Picture...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2983300

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2193728


Locations...
Hauling wine east from the ATSF connection in Chicago to the NY Metro area, usually in train SF-100, then heading back west to Chicago usually in train AF-97 or SF-99.

Model...
Atlas produced a suitable model announced in August 2013, although the Atlas car represents a somewhat more spartan paint scheme without the "Dual Air Pak" logo usually seen on the cars leased to Gallo.  To back-date the Atlas car, one would only need to locate a decal set with that particular logo in white.

http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOFreightCars/ho53evans/0813/20002465_TQ.jpg

- -pat


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