Remember, reefers also offered "ventilator" service when run with the hatches open for fresh air. What needs fresh air more than haggis? But, keeping cool is the main reason to ship in a reefer, and that's why this load of Strumpet beer is getting iced down.
I bought these reefers off of Flash some time ago. They are all decorated with Clover House dry transfers.
Inter Mountain will soon release PFE reefer class R-30-18, a wooden reefer with steel roof and ends. H0 scale release Dec 2010/Jan 2011.
A solid train of Santa Fe refrigerator cars departs north from the island seaport across the two mile long causeway a day after the weekly banana ship arrives. A string of Reefers all from the same railroad or leasing company can be pretty much all alike---or maybe not. Left to right: SFRD 8155 with “El Capitan” Class RR-40 40’ icebunkered- “Atlas-First Generation” #2392 (model from ca. 1970) SFRD 7359 Class RR-38 from Atlas #2393 Railway Express repainted & heavily modified SFRB-6135 RR-57 XI rebuilt from a Bachmann car SFRD 3175 Class RR-54 Santa Fe’s 1st mechanical reefer Bachmann SFRD #20135 with “The Chief” slogan, and SFRD #20401 with “Super Chief Slogan”, both Class RR-21, as modernized, modeled by repainting “Atlas-First-Generation” #2396 “Safeway” and #2398 “Carnation.” Modeling additions included platforms Inboard of car ends, and rooftop car numbers that icing platform workers can read.
View of RR-38 to show mechanical fan mechanism over left end truck, and .... a diamond grid metal running board drawn in Photoshop, printed out on tin paper and glued to plastic strips. Swift #6327, pretty much a stock Arnold Rapido #5334 with an Accumate underframe to mount MTL couplers, spotted at an ice plant on the waterfront that leases part of its space to Swift.
