Thanks again to all involved
Sioux_City_Beef by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks to Autonerd, who made a trip to Zientek Hobbies I now have a pair of the blue-painted Intermountain reefers which I recently completed the assembly of same:
Needham_a by Edmund, on Flickr
My dressed beef is now traveling in style!
Regards, Ed
Yes, Intermountain. Zientek Hobbies in Chicago has a bunch of the blue cars. Check your personal messages.
Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. I'll keep an eye out for the earlier release of the Intermountain car. Sometimes the hunt makes the challenge fun.
May or may not be up to your standards, but Athearn offered the blue version about five years ago:
http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH86051
Looks like it addresses the detail issue, too!
Wayne
During my days of employment many years ago I would often pass by the former NYC main line just east of Cleveland (Collinwood Yard) on my way in to work and look for railroad activity.
On one such occasion I saw a train stopped for fuel and amongst the rolling stock were several refrigerator cars in this spiffy blue paint scheme:
needham_meats by Edmund, on Flickr
I filed the mental image away thinking, someday, I'd like to have a model of such a car. So, I found one by Intermountain in a yellow motif but, so far, in HO, I haven't found any in the blue regalia.
Needham_meats by Edmund, on Flickr
Does anyone have any recollection of the blue paint scheme ever available in HO in something just a tad more detailed than a Tyco or AHM model? It seems like it would be a popular item, sort of a modern-day billboard reefer. Short of that, were decals ever made commercially?
*[edit] Well, insert foot-in-mouth!
I just did another quick search and came up with an Intermountain model with the blue scheme!
https://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/html/45523.htm
Thank you, Ed