Is the VL Pennsy reefer brown and yellow paint scheme accurate for the steam era?
I know some of the markings are later dates but those are less noticeable than the paint.
Pennsy is about the only steel reefer scheme Lionel has not offered aside from the VL.
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Those cars are complete foobies. PRR did own some wooden reefers in PRR paint schemes, but these were all prior to 1930. In the 20's, the PRR cars were all transferred to Fruit Growers Express (FGE) ownership and reporting marks. By the steel reefer era, all PRR freight refrigerator traffic was in FGEX, WFEX (Western Fruit Express), National Refrigerator (NRCC), or Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) cars. PRR was part of a group of railroads that owned all of these refrigerated car lines.
These Lionel VL PRR steel reefers would go great behind one of the new PRR-lettered Santa Fe 2-10-4's, which are also foobies.
Thanks Bob! Now I know why there are no PRR lettered steel reefers.
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