Thanks Ben and everyone else who replied. It's some iteration of this Model Power car. I had already looked at the picture on page 211 of the PFE book and rejected it as the prototype to

Alternate link... for Pacificng article on paint colors http://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Historic_Railroad_Paint_Color_Index Randy Hees

Thanks everyone for your responses....quite a lot of info to peruse! The central problem, of course, is that those of us who choose to model a period before there was color photography faithful to the

Jason P (not signing his full name) wrote: Certainly looks like a World War II “War Emergency” box car, several models available. The InterMountain one is very nice. Tony Thompson

The flat car is either a Ft-I Built in 1910 or Ft-J Built in 1913 44 foot car. Here are two photos of an Ft-I 190080 Built 9-1910 in Barstow Yard in 1993 and 1994. Charlie Slater MSFM2 Sent from

I would trust Charlie Slater’s reply.

Tim 'O sent me a photo of an Ft-L converted to TOFC service and it is definitely not a good match. Guess I'll need to track down photos of the other suggested classes to make sure for myself.

The Pacificng wiki site is currently down... Andrew will need to reinstall the softwear, so it will be a few days... Randy Hees

-- T. Owen Thorne Cecil County MD USA owen at udel dot edu

Interesting discussion but hard to believe no in-service pictures of these cars have surfaced. It is a significant car for transition-era Anthracite modelers and I model 1955. Is the consensus that

Bruce Ah! I had forgotten that PFE experiment, which was unsuccessful, and that was the end of that. But other owners' rebuilt ice reefers (all meat or frozen food

Neat little model of an R-40-30 ! How did you create the louvers ? On 1/23/2023 9:25 PM, Edward wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Sunshine also did it for ATSF with that door Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

PFE never had such cars, which would be a rebuilt ice refrigerator. I think your model may be from a low cost Mehano (guess?) model based on someone's imagination -- I think I

Jeff White asked: "I was going through the cars I inherited from my friend deciding what to keep and what to sell and I can across a PFE mechanical reefer that looks like part of the refrigeration

Jason, I believe that Sunshine #29.11 is a kit that will build into that car. I am currently working on the CNW version of the 10’ 6” IH War Emergency boxcar. Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

404 error on link, but found this by going to root: https://www.pacificng.com/template.php?page=/ref/color/index.php -- ____________________________ David Bott, modeling the A&Y in '34

-- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Intermountain did a war emergency boxcar in HO. Believe they used this type of door on the ATSF release. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Good morning all, I'm calling on some of you freight car experts that might could help point towards a fairly close model of this series of cars. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in