Thanks, Ben, that's what I thought.


Now, anybody for Pere Marquette?

Schuyler



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Benjamin Hom
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Schuyler Larrabee asked:
"New Accurail kits for June.

Are these legitimate models of actual prototypes?

#48351 Pere Marquette
#4846 Pennsylvania

Close to each other at the lower right of this page:
http://www.accurail.com/accurail/4800.htm "

NO for PRR. The only 40 ft reefers built for PRR before the formation of
Fruit
Growers Express were the Class R7 single-sheathed cars. There were
intentions
to build reefers based on the Class X29 boxcar design, but these were never
built.

Ben Hom