08-27-2020, 11:56 PM
Guy, I was, just a few minutes ago, browsing through Ted Culotta's "Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual, Volume Three: Refrigerator Cars", and discovered a photo of a CNR wooden reefer with the underslung heater unit and a Liquidometer mounted on the car's side. The car is not otherwise visibly altered, with only its original four hatches on the roof, not the eight of the newer steel cars, so your model is prototypical.
A couple of pages later, there's a photo of what appears to be one of the eight-hatch cars with overhead ice bunkers, but it's been modified with a new hatch-less roof and an undermounted mechanical refrigeration unit near the trucks at one end of the car, and a fuel tank, similarly-mounted, close to the other truck.
The re-weigh date (and likely the same as it's date of modification to a mechanical reefer) is July, 1952, while the photo was taken in Vancouver, B.C., on June 24th, 1953.
I have a stack of Culotta's books, and they're an invaluable resource of information and of inspiration, too.
Wayne
A couple of pages later, there's a photo of what appears to be one of the eight-hatch cars with overhead ice bunkers, but it's been modified with a new hatch-less roof and an undermounted mechanical refrigeration unit near the trucks at one end of the car, and a fuel tank, similarly-mounted, close to the other truck.
The re-weigh date (and likely the same as it's date of modification to a mechanical reefer) is July, 1952, while the photo was taken in Vancouver, B.C., on June 24th, 1953.
I have a stack of Culotta's books, and they're an invaluable resource of information and of inspiration, too.
Wayne