Refrigerator cars have played a major role for railroads as a means of conditioning all sorts of products while delivering them to their markets. The most prominent of them are the reefers that transported meat and produce. There have been many upgrades and improvements to such cars and this thread is intended to be a show place for reefer models. The following model was marketed in kit form from Walthers in the 70's and early 80's. 
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First a couple of early Scale-craft wood kits from the 30's
And a mix of Faber/Lobaugh tin side reefers. Faber stamped the Lobaugh sides and also sold some cars. Litho sides are marked Faber or Lobaugh.
An Athearn O reefer
Couple of All Nation wood reefers
Couple of Westbrook reefers
And a couple of Lionel/MTH tinplate 2814 reefers on the high line above a yard full of woodplate scale bocars and reefers
Atlas and Red Caboose kit cars.
Pete
Wow - finally Reefer Madness!!! (Sorry… couldn’t resist 
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I don’t have a lot of reefers because there are not many in O scale with the correct markings for the late 40s. Plus, I don’t buy duplicate car numbers. Here are some of what I have. All of these schemes lasted until at least the 50s.
I have three Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) schemes on my layout.
PFE scheme used from 1936 to 1942. Side 1
PFE scheme used from 1936 to 1942. Side 2
PFE scheme used from 1942 to 1946. Diagonal removed, side 2 unchanged
PFE scheme used from 1946 to 1950. Both sides the same. In 1950 the UP shield became B&W.
I have two Fruit Growers Express (FGE) reefers, one steel and one wood. The scheme was used from 1929 to 1952.
I have two American Refrigerator Transit (ART) cars with the scheme used until 1949 (start date unknown).
While 36-foot wood reefers were pretty much gone by the post WWII era, the meat packing industry still used them as well as 37-foot wood reefers. This Oscar Mayer scheme was from 1939 to 1948 (need to confirm the exact dates).
PFE with no strip is Weaver (too orange). OM is MTH. The rest are Atlas.
Gentlemen, Thanks so much for all the great posts tonight. I certainly learned a lot from them. I am looking forward to seeing more on the many different refrigerators. Thanks again for posting. Bill
PSRX 1006 model by Atlas O.
MELGAR
A short video that I made over 10 years ago....
Have a great weekend, folks!
Peter
This one was made about 4 years ago......now I have more New York Central cars.....
Peter
Putnam, I love that you didn't even bother to take your tie off!!! Good job!
A few Lionel Steelsided Reefers:
The BNSF is a MTH offering, the UP is a Lionel offering
Here are some of mine.
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