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Need help with the history of reefer cars...
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They are cool. I personally love Ice reefers of all stripes Check out branchline trains, they make a whole series of them. Also look at the decals from Cloverhouse models, he has all kinds of decals for pretty cool billboard reefers as well as other stuff. You can buy undecorated reefers or data only from Accurail and put these decals on them. A book to check out is the hallowed PFE book (author escapes me now, some one else will chime in). For high detail its Branchline, Intermountain and Red Caboose models. Do at least look at a finished kit from one of these manufacturers. When I got "reefer MAdness", I went out and bought every blue box I could find, after seeing Intermountain kits, I sold all the Athearn on Ebay and bought more detailed stuff...I also tried superdetailing the Athearn, too much work for not enough return on my modeling time. <br /> <br />While we are on the subject, you will need the other really cool thing to go along with your reefers: The icing platform. These are another neat thing about reefer service. Walthers makes a fairly good one, the Tichy one is a little better. For a neat detail you can use the miniatronics n scale reflector lights (regular outside lights) on em' and they look real cool and are in scale. The platforms look great all lit with these at night. There are also mini chuncks of ice etc..... <br /> <br />One note about Billboard reefers that might matter to you, They were banned or other wise regulated out of existence somewhere in the mid-1930s. If you care about protoypical correctness, and your railroad era is set later, say in the 50's, you wouldn't see these babies in service. Now before I come off like the historical correctness police, let me say that I don't care what you run on your railroad, just thought you should know this so that when one of "those guys" comes over and points it out, you can have an answer....Or if you are trying to be protoypical, you can be accurate.... <br /> <br />I think I probably have foamed enough for now.....
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