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I found my source -- my lovely bride got me a copy of the book "Railroad Color History - Santa Fe Railway" for Christmas, and it has a picture of a ABB string of red & silver warbonnet F7s pulling a string of reefers out of Chicago in 1963. The note with the picture said SF sometimes used spare passenger power to pull time-critical extras such as reefers. <br /> <br />So it would probably be safe to assume that the practice started in the 50's, since moving produce from California to Chicago and points in between was a big source of freight revenue for the SF before they went heavily into intermodal traffic. Means I can take the passenger F7 AB Stewart set I have in storage out and put a string of reefers behind it to run on my layout when I get the mainline done. [yeah]
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