MERCHANTS DISPATCH/Hinman Delaware & Hudson and diagrams

and diagrams

Posted 11-9-09

1/3 scale railway running for 13-1/2 miles through the English countryside in Kent

is presented to you in the same chronological order as it was recorded so you can experience the year’s activities just as if you were side-by-side with our rail journalist as he sought out the best locations and movements in this densely trafficked region

the old Central Pacific fire lookout above Cisco

MERCHANTS DISPATCH/Hinman Delaware & Hudson and diagramsMerchants Despatch or, to give its full name, Merchants Despatch Transportation or MDT, was one of the largest owners and operators of refrigerator cars in the United States. Though owned by New York Central, it was independently operated from headquarters in Chicago and operated a major shop at East Rochester, New York. Over the years, not only refrigerator cars for MDT and it subsidiaries such as Northern Refrigerator Line, but many freight cars for