Lionel's #6672 Mechanical Refrigerator car roadnames

[Andrew Falconer]

Lionel's #6672 Mechanical Refrigerator car roadnames seem to be very limited.

The roadname when it was first produced in the 1950's was Santa Fe.

Then the modern Lionel versions were produced for the Postwar Celebration Series and the Archive Collection.

There was also a version in with cartoonish Alaska Railroad artwork.

The #6672 Mechanical Refrigerator car seems to have been made in very few roadnames even though it resembles several more railroad's 50' Mechanical Refrigerator Cars and even 57' Mechanical Refrigerator Cars.

 

That is one common freight car variation that Lionel did not run often, unlike strange things like the Allis-Chalmers Flat Cars.

 

Andrew

[Andrew Falconer]

 

This roadname and paint scheme was strangely overlooked for the #6672 Reefer even when Lionel was based entirely in Michigan.

 

CANADIAN NATIONAL 50' Mechanical Refrigerator 

 

[Andrew Falconer]

Lionel's #6672 Steel Mechanical Refrigerator has never been produced in the Pacific Fruit Express graphics. All of the other Lionel Reefer variations have been heat stamped, pad stamped, or painted for the Pacific Fruit Express except for the #6672. That means that the #6672 was nearly forgotten until they moved production to China and found it again after 2000.

 Here is one real example of the first Pacific Fruit Express Steel Bodied Mechanical Refrigerator cars that is about 52' Long.

http://www.sdrm.org/roster/freight/re300010/index.html

 

[Andrew Falconer]

There is a photo of another mechanical refrigerator in the PFE series.

This the full side few of Pacific Fruit Express PFE 300001

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1395240

[Andrew Falconer]

The Milwaukee Road had Refrigerator cars similar to the Lionel #6672.

Lionel has made a lot of Milwaukee Road freight cars, but not this one.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/milw/milw10601ajs.jpg