Great! Thanks! [:D]
That explains why I’ve noticed cool boxes on the short hood of several locos in pics of yard ops.
Cool! [8D]
So having a company pickup parked next to a engine with a laborer climbing up on it with a can of ice water and other supplies would be something that happens on the railroad all the time that I have never seen modeled. Or a laborer climbing on a caboose with two 5 gallon buckets of ice and supplies as all cabooses had one or two large 2’x3’ by 2’ deep insulated ice boxes on them. With some of the cabooses in local service having 3 ice boxes. As most locals went 50-75 miles a day,spent the night,and came back the next day so the ice had to last for 2 days every trip. With some locals that ran between outlying points had a local ice company supply the caboose with ice once a week and the crew had to make a can of ice water every day for the enigneneer from the ice in the caboose ice box. If the crew was in a hurry they wouldn’t stop but just dump the water out of the old can and drop it on the ground about 15 feet before the got to the laborer. Then the laborer would hand a fresh can of ice water and supplies up to the crew as they went by.