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May 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm #5930May 27, 2017 at 5:12 pm #8329louanne.lewandowskiParticipant
Thank you for this link, Charlie.
Growing up in Colorado in the early 1960s, the annual Grand Valley peach season was something to look forward to. For about a month we ate a lot of peaches that were ripe and delicious. Peaches today might be available year-around, but are depressingly wooden and tasteless every time I erroneously give in to the urge to buy some.
Rio Grande locations that are obvious in this film include Grand Junction, Palisade, DeBeque, West Canyon (west of Glenwood Springs, on the original alignment on the north side of the Colorado River), Glenwood Canyon (vicinity of Allen), Dotsero, and North Yard (Denver). The train scenes are not in strict geographic order from west to east, but bounce around somewhat. I can’t identify any of the steam engines, but FTs are clearly seen.
There’s what appears to me (not an old-car expert) to be a 1951 Ford truck in one scene carrying a re-ice machine, and it looks new, so that would likely be the year this film is taken.
Mark Hemphill
July 1, 2017 at 3:33 am #8365louanne.lewandowskiParticipantHere’s a very nice shot that appeared this week on eBay of an ART wood reefer in August 1960. The photographer was apparently in Wyoming and Colorado during this month, judging by the C&S and D&RGW photos that are other listings, with the same date.
Interesting that it’s clean and appears to be in very good condition.
Mark Hemphill
January 10, 2018 at 4:50 am #8598benjamintickell53ParticipantDid you by chance “save” the image in the ebay auction? Once the auction is over, the listing will eventually expire, and the digital image along with it. To avoid that, it would be possible to save the image, and then post it here as an attachment to your regular post, so that it would remain available for research purposes.
Bill Pollard
January 10, 2018 at 1:41 pm #8599peggyrothschildParticipantBill
Do a search on ‘ART wood reefers in color’. I saved the images in another post.
CharlieMay 29, 2018 at 12:47 am #8788bargetanikaParticipantI watched the entire video. I’d never seen an ART wood reefer with only the MP buzzsaw. What is the story with these cars?
Every thing in the film is now historical. I suppose the harvesting of pond ice is long gone. The ice reefers are long gone. DDT is long gone. How much of that heavy crop spraying is now considered a hazard ? How much of the picking is now mechanized? Is stilt walking still part of all of this ?
I had no idea that peaches were grown in this area. Thanks for this great film. PF
May 29, 2018 at 2:30 pm #8790mopacKeymasterPat,
The single emblem above the reporting marks was a short lived A.R.T. paint scheme from about 1948-1950. The MP Buzzsaw was on one side and the Wabash Flag on the other side.
Gene Semon
May 29, 2018 at 4:05 pm #8791bargetanikaParticipantAnyone else notice that stock cars were being used for cold weather transport of pond ice? Also, when the government inspectors were shown, they were inspecting something but it did not look like peaches.
May 30, 2018 at 3:24 am #8794Bud MossParticipantThis is an excellent film, but I wish two things. That the filmmaker was on the sunny side of the trains and that the film was in better focus. Anyway, regarding the single herald ART reefer at 21:04 in the film, this is rather important. Few if any in-service photos of this paint scheme exist. In fact, it was unknown, until I saw this film, if the scheme actually existed except for a builder’s photo. Note that the buzzsaw is rimmed in blue. This scheme only lasted a year or so before the “Classic Scheme” with both heralds was implemented. Nice, nice find.
Jerry Michels
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