Hello all, has anyone seen any articles on converting an intermountain reefer to approximate a Santa Fe type ice bunker reefer? Thanks, Scott.
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Hi Scott,
What class (for example Rr-43) are you trying to model? The Santa Fe Historical Society has an excellent reference guide (Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stoce Reference Series Volume two Refrigerator Cars). When I was converting cars into a more accurate reefer model, I found that using a Lionel or MTH model was a better starting place. If nothing else, the color is much closer to the PRB reefers that I already had so I did not have to completely repaint them. If you are trying to model a plug door, Lionel has a plug door model that is very close.
For non-plug door conversion, the hardest part for me was to make the door wider. Sometimes I scribed the new door and sometimes I cut the new door out. I usually used Grandt Line hinges for replacement hinges.
I got my reefer train out yesterday. It is one of the trains I plan on running during the Rockford O Scalers open house related to the March Meet.
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