ReeferMonday

I picked up this NIB Lionel 84122 FGE 40' Scale Reefer for a really great price from the bay.  The details are really good, but I have a PFE reefer with even better details I’ll post in a bit.

Have a good start to your First Reefer Monday WTG pennsyfan Here we have a Lionel 9879 Hills Bros coffee Reefer Red-yellow / white year 1979,80

@pennsyfan posted:

Show us your reefers (of the Railroad variety please)!

I hope I’m not stepping on any toes here. I did several searches looking for a thread where reefers were showcased and couldn’t find one.
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So here we go with the first ReeferMonday.
I’m sure that there are more varieties of reefers than my short video will show. I know that I missed produce. I have  dairy, food, beer, and whisky. Let’s see your reefers!

Bob, those are some nicely detailed reefers.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

Bob, those are some nicely detailed reefers.

Gene

Thank you Gene, let’s see yours!

Some older reefers…painted/weathered by me…

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

Some older reefers…painted/weathered by me…

Tom

Nice job Tom.

@pennsyfan posted:

Thank you Gene, let’s see yours!

Bob, being new to o gauge(2 yrs.), my reefer collection is pretty slim(2), maybe in the future.

Gene

Good idea to start this, Bob.

Lionel Std. O

My favorite car

@bluelinec4 posted:

My favorite car

Those are great looking reefers Ben. I’m glad that I was waiting at a crossing 😱

"Reefer Monday," huh? OK, here 's a couple of passenger car express reefers designed and used in the late 19th Century through the early part of the 20th Century. Although old, MTH's various liveries make them look new. I use the yellow one at the head end of my Union Pacific Yellowstone Special and the silver and red one at the head end of my Santa Fe Super Chief. I don't know if either train in their histories ever used them. But I think they look nice, so there you have it.

This is my favorite reefer, a NIB Lionel 17336 PFE Steel Sided Reefer I got 8 months or so ago.  The opening and closing roof hatches, the opening side doors with the little handles, the attached ladders are things I really like, not to mention the paint job.  I have one more reefer with little detailing, but it has an ETD which is something I needed.

@pennsyfan

Bob:

You have created another GREAT forum topic that will bring to the forum members many colorful photos of the huge variety of billboard refrigerator cars available to O gauge enthusiasts. Below are three of my contributions to this successful, new, weekly OGR Forum topic. Thank you for your creativity and initiative.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@pennsyfan

Bob:

You have created another GREAT forum topic that will bring to the forum members many colorful photos of the huge variety of billboard refrigerator cars available to O gauge enthusiasts. Below are three of my contributions to this successful, new, weekly OGR Forum topic. Thank you for your creativity and initiative.

Thanks Randy! Great pictures.

Great idea Bob, here are a few of mine... Lionel, French Hornby, Lionel, & Hafner.

Best Wishes, Great thread Bob glad you initiated the idea

Don

A couple from my Brooklyn train…

From the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers (NLOE) a few years ago - ain’t nothin’ like Nathan’s from the original stand in Coney Island!!!

And two more Nathan’s entries from a special run done by Trainworld (one for the dogs, one for the fries)…

And, finally, the first of two sets of Boar’s Head cars done by the wonderful crew at METCA (a definite bad influence on the wallet!!!)…

Here's is the only freight car reefers I have, a K-Line Milwaukee Road and a Lionel Gold Metal Milk operating milk can car.

@Don McErlean posted:

Great idea Bob, here are a few of mine... Lionel, French Hornby, Lionel, & Hafner.

Best Wishes, Great thread Bob glad you initiated the idea

Don

Thanks Don. You always have interesting posts.

Related question, does Lionel make a modern reefer?

So many threads, so little time...... OK I'm in!

I'll start with a Nassau Hobby custom run. I used to shop in this market with my mom when I was a kid. (Or with Dad if the day's fishing trip came up empty).

Good idea Bob.

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

So many threads, so little time...... OK I'm in!

I'll start with a Nassau Hobby custom run. I used to shop in this market with my mom when I was a kid. (Or with Dad if the day's fishing trip came up empty).

Good idea Bob.

Bob

Thanks Bob.
Cousins came to my community in Farmingdale NJ during the summer with a food truck. Great lobster rolls.

Budweiser Beer refers by K line.  

Thanks for the compliment Bob, You know there has been a lot of mention of places in NJ like Farmingdale. Well we are a NJ crowd in origin. Wife and I grew up just outside Newark in a little town called North Arlington. After HS I went to collage in New Brunswick and she went to Nursing school in Montclair.  My first engineering job was in Harrison at Worthington Corp.

best wishes

Don

Good Job Everyone!

I may have posted this one some years back-can't remember.   Custom MTH scale reefer done by me using decals from Stan Cedarleaf in Arizona.   Real nice guy to speak with and deal with.   Unfortunately he passed on a couple years ago.

@Don McErlean posted:

Great idea Bob, here are a few of mine... Lionel, French Hornby, Lionel, & Hafner.

Best Wishes, Great thread Bob glad you initiated the idea

Don

Don,

I just picked up one of those Blue Bell reefers at the Monroeville Pa Greenberg show here a couple weeks back.   Hadn't seen that one before and couldn't pass it up for a great price.   I don't imagine there were many of them made.

@texgeekboy You reminded me that I have some of those detailed reefers. Here are a few.

@pennsyfan,

I really like it. I put the first one I bought back in the box (carefully) and took it out a few months later. When I did, some of the plastic work for the hinges came off. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t due to me. I liked the car so much though I bought a second one.

Just another pretty reefer, happy tom see this thread going

@metalman- Hey glad to know there is another "Blue Bell" Ice Cream fan out there.  I picked mine up because I loved the logo and the pictures on it plus the vivid color. Like you I have not seen many of them either on the auction sites or at any train shows I have gone to, so I agree it seems like not too many were made.  Blue Bell Ice Cream is a premium brand name here in Texas but before we moved here in 2007 I had not heard of it before.

Best Wishes

Don

@texgeekboy posted:

Related question, does Lionel make a modern reefer?

Yes, BNSF Ice Cold Express comes to mind.

MTH EMD demo.

Thanks to all that posted all the great photos in ReeferMonday! See you next week.

Another fine ReeferMonday, Lionel 9870 Old Dutch Cleanser from 77,78 remember that cleaner many moons ago. God Speed

Form this week's Boxcar Sunday, an American Refrigerator Transit Company boxcar. This unit sports the Wabash & Missouri Pacific logos as well as the A.R.T. shield. I have it in 6 road #s which makes a nice little unit train. It's made by MTH & has opening doors & roof hatches, see through roof walks, separate ladders and grab bars.

Selecto Ham and Bacon 36-foot wood-sided refrigerated boxcar ETPX #314 was owned by the East Tennessee Packing Company of Knoxville, Tennessee. According to the date on the model it was rebuilt in August 1924. Atlas O made this model with at least three road numbers. ETPX #308 was made in 2003 and ETPX #313 was made in 2007. ETPX #314 is not listed in the Atlas O Archive.

MELGAR

CMP

Beer refers.

K line Budweiser refers .

October Fest refer by MTH.

@Sitka

Mark, thanks for starting us off this mornin. I was zonked after the train club event and then my family coming back to my home afterwards.
Anyway, time for some apples.

A case of one thing leads to another. I bought the SW-8/9 first, then of course I had to find appropriate rolling stock......

Interesting history behind the Despatch Shops of Rochester NY.

Bob