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cluded sides. The sides for the plug door kits have a plug door and a plac- ard board located low left of the door. For a plug door model, the center stir- rups are to be mounted offset to the left of center. These ice reefers were in use until


the 1970’s, when mechanical reefers became more common and much of produce shipping was lost to trucking. The kits are designed well and are easy to assemble. At the time of this writing, Accurail


offers the swing door reefer kits decorat- ed for GN/WFE (as built), NP, FGE (as built) and NYC/Merchants Despatch; and the plug door kits decorated for GN/WFE (as built), PFE (as built), Burlington and Santa Fe. The kits are priced at $15.98 each.—JOHN RIDDELL


MP36PH-3S locomotive and Nippon-Sharyo gallery cars: N scale Mfd. by Kato, U.S.A., 100 Remington


Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60173; website, www.katousa.com The railroads began what could be


called recognizable commuter service soon after being built in North Ameri- ca. The Boston & Lowell, for example, laid its first track in 1835, and half a dozen years later it was establishing intermediate stations and buying more equipment for local passenger service. Prior to the Civil War, cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia had railroad commuter service, and in


1855 a ferry from Longueil, Quebec, provided the connection to Montreal for commuters riding the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway. The relationship between the rush


hour, population distribution, urban and suburban growth, and the rail- roads does not need to be discussed here, but it should be mentioned that the word “commuter” comes from the word “commute,” i.e., shorten. In this context, it means reduced fares for fre- quent (daily) riders. The idea sounded good a century ago, and for a time rail- roads made money on the business. As we know, that changed. Over time, the rolling stock changed,


too. For decades there were two parallel tracks: using downgraded mainline loco- motives and cars vs. purpose-built equipment. This topic deserves an ex- tensive and separate treatment, but note that prior to 1900 the Illinois Cen- tral had already explored car weight and seating capacity issues, and it even tried a carbody with several doors per side to speed loading and reduce dwell time (time at station stops). Big jumps in car design occured in the late 1920’s and again between 1950 and 1965, and what we have today is derived from these later years. Dedicated locomotives and cars are now the norm. Even with the inevitable diversity


(at last count around two dozen cities in North America presently have com- muter trains), the equipment can be


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