12-31-2010, 03:39 PM
Awhile back, After having made frequent lunch-time runs over to the Mountain King Potato factory and watching the cars being switched in and out, and taking alot of photos, I decided to model the operations, the structure, and the SLC reefers that are almost always there. This is detailed in the thread: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...slc#p64784 but figured to start a new thread on the builds.
I have photos of 39 of the prototype reefers which I will use as a basis to do the models. I'll do about 15 of these I think. The following are typical of the reefers:
SLC 171 is obviously ex-Milwaukee Road
Started out with an Athearn BB 1624 Mechanical Reefer. I'm not looking for a rivet counter quality model, just a nice representation that will suffice for the 3 foot rule.
Cut out the small doors so they can be replaced with larger doors from Accurail.
Installed the door and ribs and door guides, removed the roofwalks and upper portions of the ladders:
I have photos of 39 of the prototype reefers which I will use as a basis to do the models. I'll do about 15 of these I think. The following are typical of the reefers:
SLC 171 is obviously ex-Milwaukee Road
Started out with an Athearn BB 1624 Mechanical Reefer. I'm not looking for a rivet counter quality model, just a nice representation that will suffice for the 3 foot rule.
Cut out the small doors so they can be replaced with larger doors from Accurail.
Installed the door and ribs and door guides, removed the roofwalks and upper portions of the ladders: