ReeferMonday

Lionel steel sided reefers

A beautiful set of Lionel Phenolic Cast Reefers from 1999. These are pretty heavy cars - each one weighs app. 1.5 pounds!!!

Here are a couple of mine.  Both from the early years at Lionel MPC.

The #9854 Baby Ruth billboard refer, from 1972u and 1973-1976

The #9858 Butterfinger billboard refer, from 1973u and 1974-1976

Happy Monday!

Don

Eastern States Cooperative milk reefer

Centrak Vermont Express milk reefer

@Sitka

Mark I never got that old Dutch reefer. I couldn’t figure why a clenser had to be refrigerated

Up to 32 cars in my little train, getting pretty reliable even with the mix of Atlas, MTH, Lionel, and about half the train is vintage kit builts on Lionel trucks and couplers.  Gonna see if I can get to 40 cars lol...

A few more old time reefers. Two are factory paint with detailing and weathering added and one is repainted by me….

Tom

A custom paint I did several years ago.

Here are a couple of mine for this fine Monday morning... 

Lionel #16131 T&P from 1994

a Marx FGE refer in the 6" tinplate series...1940-1949

Best Wishes to Everyone, Happy Holidays to all

Don

Thanks for starting it off Don. I expect to be discharged today.

New Haven Dairy Safe Milk GICX 300 refrigerated boxcar model by Weaver/Crown Model Products. Car rebuilt 1948.

MELGAR

Some Western Maryland today.

I picked up an old Weaver PFE wood reefer fairly cheap to use as part of the Friendship Train.  This reefer has the UP shield used from 1936 to 1946, but it is not going to matter when I finish getting it ready for the FT.

Here is a picture I took at a PRRT&HS conference a few years ago of the finished product.  This is an easy car since the signs are relative simple.

Lionel Swift car from 73-77 have four they make a nice string of cars. Pennsyfan discharge? Hope all is fine Bob God Speed!

@Sitka posted:

Lionel Swift car from 73-77 have four they make a nice string of cars. Pennsyfan discharge? Hope all is fine Bob God Speed!

Thanks Mark, better now. I had a really bad Cold that went into viral pneumonia.

Self Explanatory.

@pennsyfan - Bob glad to hear you are being discharged.  Keep safe and healthy over the Holidays and throughout the New Year.  Best wishes.

@Sitka- after you posted your Switft's refer I thought of this Lionel 0-27 car.  I normally think of it as a box car but realized that the livery announces it as the "Refrigerator Express Line",  #6050 from 1962-1963.

Really good pictures and posting today everyone.  Lots of neat cars!!

Happy Holidays,

Don

I'm also going to go with Swift Reefers. MTH Swift Refrigerator Lines custom run for Berwyn's Trains.

A couple painted by me…

And a couple factory painted and details added by me…

Tom

I bought one then a few more and now I love these things. It sure is a pain swaping Kadees in since you have to do some cutting on the MTH truck frame but I like em better that way. I did spray some flat gray/black primer on the frame, trucks, and roof of the Falstaff car. Looks much better. Maybe I’ll try a light wash and some matt clear or dullcoat next.

`Not a reefer but I think it says    This box car is really a reefer

My only two reefers together on a siding.

I can think of four of my less common reefers... Dunno where my Burlington double door is packed away?  Billboard reefers certainly rank as my most favorite railcar after cabooses.

Well, l can't find that double door Burlington kit-buit reefer.  I found a kit for one but it was missing the sides. To begin, here is a Colorado Midland one, followed by three Atlas cars from my home town, Louisville, Ky. and then by one from a UP Mich  one.

There were three Louisville beers much advertised on radio when l was a kid: Falls City, Fehr's, and Oertle's '92.  I never could find that Oertle's '92 had a billboard reefer.

@Dennis Holler posted:

Up to 32 cars in my little train, getting pretty reliable even with the mix of Atlas, MTH, Lionel, and about half the train is vintage kit builts on Lionel trucks and couplers.  Gonna see if I can get to 40 cars lol...

Dennis, what mfg made the "A&P" refer??

Ron

The A&P is an Atlas car with Kadee's installed.  I like this angle on the video, it catches the train running parallel to itself on four tracks, well almost... maybe a few more cars lol.

Here is a K-Line Hershey's Chocolates Reefer made in 1999.