[kevin_herrington22]

Hello Bill,

For some reason I cannot open your attached photos on the post. Would it be possible for you to email them to me at [email protected]. I am from Delta Heritage Trail State Park on the former rail line that the Delta Eagle ran on. We are real interested in seeing these photos.

Thanks,

Ryan Smith

[kevin_herrington22]

Charlie,

Its a long shot, but figured I would ask. Do you know what locomotive (#) the glass came from?

Thanks,

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

I have a timetable showing passenger service in 1904. It is listed as freight only in the 1941 timetable I have. Wish I could give you a more specific date but at least I can say before 1941.

Thanks,

Ryan Smith

[kevin_herrington22]

George,

Thanks for the info. The pine stump fire would have been a mess. It would seem to me if any pine was cut in this area for turpentine it very well could have traveled down through Mcgehee and then to Oakdale.

I am from Delta Heritage Trail State Park that is being developed into a hiking and biking trail partly from the former MOP line that the Delta Eagle operated on. I for sure will tell the story in our educational programming about your uncle and the fire. A lot reefer cars traveled on this line and it is a common topic in our programs.

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Thanks for the info. I did a little more reading and it looks like a few carrots were tried in 1932 and a little sweet corn also. Here is a link if you are interested in learning more (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Agricultural_Statistics_for_Arkansas/SC09AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=cantaloupe+marvell+arkansas&pg=RA9-PA25&printsec=frontcover).

Ryan Smith

[kevin_herrington22]

Joe,

Thanks. I appreciate your help. These articles will be very helpful in the research we are doing here at Delta Heritage Trail State Park.

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Joe,

Thanks for your help. I am looking for 3 articles in this edition that include Shipping Livestock on the Missouri Pacific, MP Stockyards, 1926‐1975 and MP Stock Cars built 1911‐1948.

Pretty much the entire edition.

Thanks,

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Chuck,

Thanks for the info.

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Thanks for the info.

Ryan

@arkrail wrote:

As rebuilt/modernized 6326-6329 were 52-seat coaches. 5 additional (non-revenue) seats were in the two restroom lounges so the diagrams show capacity of 57. We have gotten a number of additional diagrams since the heavyweight passenger CD was published. I believe the diagram for this series is in the original CD, but if not, let me know.

Bill Pollard

[kevin_herrington22]

Well sort of. This was the model car that we bought to use for programming and educational purposes here at Delta Heritage Trail State Park. It was recommended to us as from what I understand heavyweight coaches like this would have been used on the passenger train (334-335# I think) that ran from Memphis to McGehee before the Delta Eagle started up in 1941. Also, the Delta Eagle often had a coach added to it during World War 2 to accommodate increased traffic. I would assume it also had some use after the war when the Delta Eagle equipment was in for repairs. We don’t know if #6328 was assigned to this line but it is probably as close as we can get.

There was passenger service on the old Arkansas Midlands line that intersects the trail at Barton Junction and goes to Pine City and Brinkley. I do not know if they would have used heavyweight coaches on this.

Thanks,

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Well sort of. This was the model car that we bought to use for programming and educational purposes here at Delta Heritage Trail State Park. It was recommended to us as from what I understand heavyweight coaches like this would have been used on the passenger train (334-335# I think) that ran from Memphis to McGehee before the Delta Eagle started up in 1941. Also, the Delta Eagle often had a coach added to it during World War 2 to accommodate increased traffic. I would assume it also had some use after the war when the Delta Eagle equipment was in for repairs. We don’t know if #6328 was assigned to this line but it is probably as close as we can get.

There was passenger service on the old Arkansas Midlands line that intersects the trail at Barton Junction and goes to Pine City and Brinkley. I do not know if they would have used heavyweight coaches on this.

Thanks,

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

Thanks. I just ordered the CD from the Company Store.

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

I know that its a long ways for most people but thought I should mention Barton Jennings is going to be at the Delta Heritage Trail State Park Barton Visitor Center located at 5539 U.S. Highway 49 West Helena, AR 72390 for a book signing on Saturday, May 15th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We would love to see you all here and this is your chance to meet Barton.

Let me know if you need any more information about this event.

Thanks,

Ryan M. Smith

[kevin_herrington22]

@2100Northern wrote:

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

Jerry,

Essentially, the wooden reefers would have been used when there was a special need for them like during strawberry picking, correct? They were not something that was regularly run on trains but used only when needed. I thought the REA would ship LCL items to all of their stations and a wooden reefer would be used if someone (including LCL) was having something shipped that needed to be kept cool.

Thanks,

Ryan

[kevin_herrington22]

@mclae wrote:

Just looked up the entry for Lexa.
“Lexa is one of the principal icing points for perishable produce being shipped from the Rio Grand Valley through St Louis”.
So an icing dock at Lexa would handle strings of ART reefers.
Not local, but could ne interesting to model and talk about ice reefers and how that changed the eating habits of the nation.
Thomas

Thomas,

Yes, Lexa is just north of where the park “Delta Heritage Trail State Park” that I work at ends. There was a lot of activity in Lexa with livestock pens, at least one cotton gin, and the icing station. From what I heard, people in Lexa used to call the ART reefers travelling through “banana cars” from being yellow. We are in the process of putting together a model display of trains that ran on this line and ARTs are for sure one we want to use.

Thanks,

Ryan

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