Re: PFE reefer colour schemes

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steve l <stevelucas3@...> #84930 It appears that most major roads post-WWII had at least one experimental aluminum-bodied or aluminum-sided boxcar. CN had only three out of a fleet of over 40,000 steel 40' boxcars. I need a lot of CN cars for a 1956 grain-hauling road, but one aluminum-sided car alone would stick out from all those CN Red #11 cars in a hurry. Why is it that modellers seem to seek out the unusual to model? Oh, here comes that silver "Cookie Box" again... Steve Lucas. toggle quoted message Show quoted text --- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: michael bishop wrote: I think (a dangerous thing for me do anymore) that I read somewhere that PFE had some silver or aluminum ice bunker reefers. Is this correct, or am I getting my facts mixed up. Thanks for any help. Yessir. They built exactly two aluminum body cars at a time when the PFE car fleet was around 40,000 cars. Much as I like PFE and many PFE model cars as I have, I don't have one of them--they are just too rare. But hey, model them both if you like. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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