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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy The Mantua wood side reefer is a bad copy of the Athearn woodside reefer, which is the Athearn steel reefer with wood sides. As such, it's really a totally freelance car. According the the NEB&W website, the Athearn car most represents the PFE R-40-24 class of cars, in their post-1955 rebuild configuration. The biggest problem with the Athearn, Tyco and Mantua wood reefers is that the car is too tall, by over a foot. Compare your Mantua car side by side with an Accurail reefer (the best shake the box reefer on the market) and you'll see just how much of a caricature of a real freight car the Mantua is. I'm all for adding diversity to a freight car fleet, and adding details to make a good car better. But the Mantua model really isn't a "good car", in that it doesn't represent anything realistic. You r best bet is to leave the car as-is, sell it off to a Mantua collector, and rebuild a Train Miniature wood reefer, At least that model is of a real car! [/quote] I just made a side by side comparison between my Mantua reefer and an Accurail reefer, they BOTH are the same hight (9' 6") measured from the floor to the roof eves. I also have an Athearn woodsided reefer wich is six scale inches taller than either the Acurail or Mantua cars. By the way, I am not a rivet counter so I don't need my car to be an exact replica of a prototype.
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