On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Bob Chaparro wrote:

Does anyone know the prototype for these kits? Are they acccurate for
any class of PFE reefer?

No - and it's not as though we need yet more models of PFE wood
reefers. The prototypes for the Accurail reefers were originally
built for the Burlington in the early 1920s, then absorbed into the
Fruit
Growers Express fleet as BREX cars when the Q turned over its reefer
operations to FGE. The model represents these cars in modified form
as they appeared after World War II.


Richard Hendrickson

The Accurail reefer is a BREX prototype.

CJM

Bob Chaparro <thecitrusbelt@...> wrote:
Does anyone know the prototype for these kits? Are they acccurate for
any class of PFE reefer?

Thanks.

Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...>
wrote:

... The reefer model is nowhere close to the Santa Fe's Rr-4 class
or any other of its modified USRA wood reefers, which had, in
addition to different ice hatch covers and platforms, different
roofs, different underframes, and five foot wide doors.

Richard Hendrickson

Does anyone know the prototype for these kits? Are they acccurate for
any class of PFE reefer?

Thanks.

Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...>
wrote:

... The reefer model is nowhere close to the Santa Fe's Rr-4 class
or any other of its modified USRA wood reefers, which had, in
addition to different ice hatch covers and platforms, different
roofs, different underframes, and five foot wide doors.

Richard Hendrickson