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I do not know about REA stations in Arkansas, but regarding the second question, REA was not an LCL service so I assume an express reefer was used to move a shipment from the origin to a specific customer. To stop at every REA station would sort of go against the meaning of express. Mike Adams commented years ago that the MP would use every express reefer they could find, except those used to transport fish, during the strawberry rush each spring. I again assume that cars of strawberries went from loading houses to the consignee rather than a feww bushels of strawberries being picked up a stations along the way. Jerry Michels
