Richard Hendrickson wrote: Sunshine Richard, Thank you, I assume that Kingan & Co. also owned and operated reefers with their reporting marks. I believe I have one photo from Bob's, but I will have

Or you could buy Sunshine decals as the subject of your query asks. Sunshine sells kits for more than two dozen variations of the B-50-15. My check has been cashed so I'm expecting delivery of 2 of

I figured 40' box=steam; but that's sorta maybe not true. I'm pretty sure the cars I'm working with were built in the late fifties and may have gone into the '80's, so I'll try BBFCL. It's a new

Maine Hi Ed No cars with those dimensions in the road names you mention (MEC, WP, Wabash, RI) are listed in any ORER up to July 1950. This is not surprising since the earliest build date that Red

As someone said, it depends on your era. I don't think many of these cars would have been repainted before 1960. Over on the BBFCL we could discuss your options for the future.... :-) Tim O'Connor

The best decals for SP box cars are made by Rick Leach, but I don't know if he makes these particular cars in HO. Most of his decals are O scale or I should say, Proto:48 scale.

Which set do I need.  I see they offer a set for the B-50-13 and B-50-14's but I do not see the B-50-15's.  I need a set to do the steel side rebuilds.  Thanks.   Jason Sanford

I did not know there was a microscale set.  Thanks Paul.   I know Challenger is out of business so good thing I already have all the cars.  Hopefully I am not upsetting the model

Jason, Challenger has been out of business for several years! Why don't you use the Microscale set made for these cars? Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel, CA

Cyril Durrenberger wrote: Cyril, it's a forthcoming book entitled "Billboard Refrigerator Cars," by Richard Hendrickson and Ed Kaminski. We are publishing it later this summer. There's a brief

Tom Olsen writes: "Over the past several years, a number of the attendees tried booking for the meet through the 800 number only to be told that there were no rooms available and that they would have

I have some SP B-50-15'S from challenger that I want to strip and repaint into the pre 1946 lettering. Can I buy just the decals from Challenger to do these cars? Anyone know off hand.

Interesting, a modern day kitbash. I'll be travelling in that area later this summer and I think I'll have a look Thanks for ID'ing the location Roger Hinman

used on The problem with the Atlas meat reefer is that it was an odd design used primarily by the Cudahy Packing Co. and very few, if any, other meat packers, even though constructed by General

They do require some additional work if you model post 1953 though as documented in the ATSF Reefer book published the the Santa Fe society. Brian Carlson On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:00 +0000,

Yes, very. One of IM's best efforts. Long's originally sponsored the tooling.

A few months ago, my local hobby shop stocked a large assortment of ATSF HO ice reefers, ready-to-run, by Intermountain in many road numbers. Are these accurate? The orange color looks a little

What book is being referenced here? Cyril Durrenberger --- Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:

Well, sort of. Red Caboose describes RC-8900 as an AC&F 40' welded box with IH of 10'6", 4-3-1 ends, and 8' doors (they supply both "Youngstown" and "Superior"). They have the cars lettered for

In a message dated 6/12/2008 5:57:00 PM Central Daylight Time, timboconnor@... writes: The best decals for SP box cars are made by Rick Leach, but I don't know if he makes these