ARL002500

Specifications:

• Outside Length: 38'2"
• Outside Width: 9'10"
• Height, rail to running board: 13'6"
• Side doors: 5' wide, 7'7" high
• Capacity: 65,000 lbs, 1809 cubic feet

History

Edward E. Armstrong was from a long-established family of farmers in the Falmouth area. He was an early investor in expanding the apple industry. He built a brick fruit warehouse at Falmouth in 1906, across from the Falmouth Station. Armstrong built and owned a pair of of 37 foot refrigerator cars in 1906 intended for fruit and dairy service.intended for fruit and dairy service in 1906. They were built at Rhodes, Curry & Co. in Amherst. Each had a 60,000 pound capacity and were painted light blue and lettered for the "Armstrong Refrigerator Line" on one end with a diamond shield and "Owned by E.E. Armstrong, Falmouth N.S." lettered on the other.

Armstrong's warehouse was later lengthened with a third loading door. His warehouse was later bought by the Falmouth Fruit Company who added to it and joined it together with an even larger new brick tile warehouse. The original Edwards brick warehouse survives today, as part of a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company, a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth.

Gallery

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  Receipt for refrigerator cars No. 2500 and 2501, ordered from Rhodes, Curry & Co. by Edward E. Armstrong, Aug. 17.1905.

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  Photograph of custom refrigerator car No. 2500 made for Edward E. Armstrong, circa 1905.

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  Refrigerator car No. 2501, made for Edward E. Armstrong, circa November 1906.

External Links

Chris Gertridge, Facebook Post about E.E. Armstrong fruit cars, Octooer 20, 2022