St Louis Refrigerator Car Co
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Since Tichy’s decals are so thick I’d like to see if I can pull enough images together to make a nice thin decal set to do the 40’ bunkerless wood reefer. What prompted this is a shot of one on a RI freight in Missouri. Anyone have good images of the wood cars they can send me? Here’s the one poor image I have.
Thanks  -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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Thanks for all the replies and images. Lester Brewer upgraded a pre painted Accurail reefer that was done for a NMRA convention as one of his blogs. Am thinking that’s a logical choice for a decal set. SLRX also had bunkerless 36’ (or 34’?) reefers. Is there a close model that could be converted to one of these cars as well? --
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Charlie years ago I used the 36' MDC reefer and I think Clover House dry transfers https://cloverhouse.com/Cart/product_info.php?products_id=10176 Not a hi detailed model, but an op session good enough. Doug Harding Youtube: Douglas Harding Iowa Central Railroad
On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 6:23 AM Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote:
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  Charlie, I finally did some digging and found one of the SLRX cars I did almost 20 years ago, using a MDC reefer kit. Certainly not a detailed model, but at the time it was about the only option for a 36' car. As I was doing a string of Decker and Armour reefers at the time using Clover House dry transfers, I'm pretty sure the SLRX cars also have Clover House lettering. Doug Harding Youtube: Douglas Harding Iowa Central Railroad
On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 8:45 AM Douglas Harding via groups.io <iowacentralrr=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Doug
Thanks, I didn’t know they also had truss rod reefers. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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gary laakso
Sunshine offered two versions:one with truss rods and one without. They were UN kits to build.
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Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
On May 14, 2022, at 4:23 AM, Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote:
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Anyone have any prototype images of the St Louis Refrigerator Cars with truss rods and know how long they lasted in service? I’ve recently bought a spool of fishing line to do a WFEX car and have 700’ of line to use up.
Thanks -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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pennsylvania1954
Boxcar end on the left will help date the photo.
-- Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL 
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Heres a few more
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It's a postwar reefer on the left, but yeah, it's after 1945.
On 5/15/2022 9:09 PM, pennsylvania1954 wrote:
Boxcar end on the left will help date the photo. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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