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Columbia Soup Reefer Question...

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Posted by 7j43k on Friday, March 16, 2018 4:00 PM

marksrailroad

I've seen the car in HO but it was a 36' and not a 40' like mine. Oh well. I guess it's all about having fun and not being prototypically correct...

 

 

One can do both--just remove the "freelance" cars whenever proto-icity is desired.

 

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Posted by marksrailroad on Friday, March 16, 2018 3:38 PM

I've seen the car in HO but it was a 36' and not a 40' like mine. Oh well. I guess it's all about having fun and not being prototypically correct...

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Posted by DSchmitt on Friday, March 16, 2018 9:44 AM

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, March 16, 2018 9:13 AM

I checked the historical reporting marks website and CKKX did exist in 1935 and belonged to the Columbia Conserve Co.

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Posted by DSchmitt on Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:57 PM

7j43k

I find no CKKX reporting marks nor Columbia Soup in ORER's from 1926, 1939 and 1947.

Ed

 

Checked 1901, 1903, 1905   -   not found

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

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Posted by 7j43k on Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:36 PM

I find no CKKX reporting marks nor Columbia Soup in ORER's from 1926, 1939 and 1947.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:15 PM

...and the Columbia Conserve Company did exist in Indianapolis:

 

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=columcon

 

So far I haven't come across any photos and my earliest equipment register is from the same year CKKX went out of business.

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Posted by DSchmitt on Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:59 PM

Don't know, but Lionel (O), MTH (O), American Flyer (S), Roundhouse (HO), Atlas (O), K-Line (O) and USA Trains (G) all produced models.

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Columbia Soup Reefer Question...
Posted by marksrailroad on Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:18 AM

Hello one and all. Can someone out there tell me whether or not there was ever such a thing as a Columbia soup reefer?. The reason I ask is because I recently purchased one off of ebay and am now wondering if there was actually ever such a car... Thanks in advance for any help with this. 

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