FGE Wood Reefer--In Preservation?

mikefrommontana · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:05 am

Found this photo, shot in 2009 pointed out on a freight car modeler's board. Wondering, given the decent condition it is in, if it's in preservation or not. No idea as to where, but I'd guess the East/Southeast. Caveat--the photo may have been posted in 2009 and actually be much older. Ideas?

Michael Seitz
Missoula MT

DBH · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:38 am

Sorry but no Pic or link.

DBH

boblenon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:40 pm **Posts:** 44

The Rochester & Genesee Valley RR Museum has one ... though not restored.

http://rgvrrm.org/about/railroad/fge50220/index.htm

Also, I believe there is one possibly at the RR Musuem of PA?

I believe you may find an article in Railroad Model Craftsmen from a year-or-two ago.

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:30 pm

There is a beauty at RMPA. As a boy, in 1965, I rode the Seaboard's "Silver Star" to Florida, and recall watching scores of them being burned and scrapped, somewhere along the route. I used some excellent drawings from Modeltec Magazine as a basis to construct my 1/8th scale BAR potato reefer, two years back.

PLATFORMCAR · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:22 pm **Posts:** 429

thought some members of the forum might enjoy seeing the FGE car at the Roundhouse museum in Savannah...

If memory is correct, this is the car that came from Altoona RR Memorial Musuem a few years back.

Dean Levin

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:40 pm

There is also one of these in the Henry Ford Museum, or was.

mikefrommontana · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:36 am

Go away from the computer all day and...........

The link to the car in question:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30274005@N05/3622211514/in/set-72157613725724604/#/

Michael Seitz
Missoula MT

Jay611 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:08 am

That image was NOT taken in 2009. Flickr has a thing where when you upload it lists the date you uploaded the image as the date it was taken until you change it. my guess is that was shot decades ago, and was uploaded without a correct date.

RR museum of PA has one see below.

Also, the Durbin & Greenbrier RR has one at Durbin, WV

big-bad-2666 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:35 am

Dennis Storzek wrote:

There is also one of these in the Henry Ford Museum, or was.

Its still there, right behind 1601.

Stephen S. Syfrett · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:30 am

Dean, you are correct. The reefer at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah, GA did come from Altoona, back before Scott Cessna left. It was to be scrapped if it was not gone to another museum. After management at the Albany. GA museum decided to not get it, it did (thankfully) go to Savannah where they have done a nice job restoring it.

Jim Baker · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:38 pm

Preserved FGEX 56415 is at PSRM in Campo, CA. See http://www.sdrm.org/roster/freight/ref5 ... C-004F.JPG

Jim Baker