With respect to the prototype, Jerry Mike Harris commented: “I remember them... if you worked around them you had to check the foam on them. Many folks cut into the foam leaving all kind of messages.

Article: Modeling Santa Fe’s Conditionaire Hopper Burr Henion published a very detailed article on modeling a Conditionaire hopper in the October 1988 Model Railroader Magazine. The article begins on

CB&T Santa Fe Refrigerator Car Kits Comments from Bill Pardie on the Real Steam Era Freight Car Discussion group: “There was much excitement in the railroading community when CB&T released their Santa

Modeling Accurail R-40-26 PFE 9785 (Part 2) - Minor Modifications A follow-up blog post from Jason Hill: https://nightowlmodeler.blogspot.com/2022/06/modeling-accurail-r-40-26-pfe-9785-part_28.html Pr

Modeling Accurail’s R-40-26 PFE 9785 (Part 1) - Basic Kitbashing & Assembly An illustrated post from Jason Hill’s Night Owl Modeler blog: https://nightowlmodeler.blogspot.com/2022/06/modeling-accurail

Tony Thompson commented: “As mentioned yesterday, I have posted some additional comments about PFE orange, in prototype and model form, in my blog. If you’re interested, the link is below.” https://mo

Video: PFE Reefers In Moving SP Train Video Link courtesy of Robert Kirkham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv1TEs9hT10 This home video is not about PFE reefers but they do show up at about 5:20. Rob

Tony Thompson commented: 1. “I will post to my blog tomorrow, https://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/ about this topic. Just one comment: comparing to a commercial model is certainly a starting point, but

Vallejo Paint Equivalent For PFE Orange Lester Breuer commented: “The Vallejo color I have used for PFE reefers is Vallejo Model Color Bright Orange 70.851. After dry, PollyScale Clear Gloss #F404100

Here are samples of the cards mentioned by Cliff Prather. For a reefer in non-produce service, bagged flour and merchandise, as seen on the first card, would be appropriate loads. A card marked for "C

Photo: SFRD 3436 (Rr-52) Peter Arnold photo courtesy of Don Delay. Taken May 1974. SFRD 3436 is a class Rr-52 reefer, one of 220 built new by the Santa Fe shops in 1952-53, series 3280-3499. Note that

Update: Rapido Santa Fe Rr-56 Mechanical Reefer These are photos I took last week at the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society convention in Overland Park, KS. This HO scale model is in produ

Photos: BAR 7357 Reefer Photo by Alexandre Tremblay on the Facebook Abandoned Rails group: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153699308791059&set=gm.1294761427224036 Alexandre comments: “This old

Billboard: Ship Santa Fe The Cool Way (1970s) A billboard from the Duke University Libraries: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/outdooradvertising/BBB0877 Bob Chaparro Moderator

Photo: PFE 19610 ??? (1927) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc211327/m1/1/?q=Rock%20Island Zoom in on the reefer. The number is not q

Photo: Reefers At Duarte-Monrovia Packing House (Circa 1896) Photo from the City of Monrovia Archives: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_913/012/mh%204x5%20neg%2041.jpg Bob Chap

SFRD Refrigerator Cars At Stokely Foods, Lawrence, KS Photo from the Kansas Historical Society. Photo tip courtesy of Chuck Hitchcock. https://www.kshs.org/km/items/view/212472 Description: An exterio

Crate Label: Griffin & Skelley Company Crate label from a Riverside packer, undated but pre-1900: https://www.facebook.com/husc.icw/photos/pcb.1345882015471567/1345877652138670 Robert D. Skelley stimu

Photo: Cab Forward 4102 With Reefer Block Photo courtesy of Tim O’Connor from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/54484 An Otto Perry photo

Article: Model PFE Plywood-Sheathed Reefer (Revised Link) A brief, illustrated article from the Resin Car Works blog: http://blog.resincarworks.com/pfe-plywood-sheathed-reefer/ Bob Chaparro Moderator