@brianel_k-lineguy posted:...snip...One of our forum members, Gandydancer, had taken some plug door 027 box cars, redid the sides and made reefers out of them using printed sides. T ...snip...
These O scale Heatbath car sides are a single printed side:
As you can see, they could be applied to whatever kit the builder was using:
As I understand it, the sides were given out to anyone who sent in the required postage and an S-A.S.E. Someone who worked at Heatbath was a modeler and had these made up, probably just before WW2; interesting as Heatbath never owned/leased any cars with their name proudly emblazoned on the sides. So far my friend and I have found three different road numbers, I wonder how many were offered and if the requester had any choice in the matter. I eventually want to have the artwork enlarged a few percent and applied to a center-flow hopper and maybe a tanker.
BTW: The Heatbath Corporation was still in business until 2015 when they were acquired by DuBois Chemicals.
