N Scale 40Ft Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer w/Vertical Brake Wheel - Pacific Fruit Express (Early) #11013

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This 40Ft Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer with Vertical Brake Wheel is based on cars used from the early 1900s to the 1970s. It features a detailed, injection-molded styrene body, free-rolling Delrin(R) trucks with contoured axles, truck-mounted Magne-Matic(R) couplers and diecast metal underframe or interior weights. Cars also include thin-profile foot stirrups, brake wheels and fine decoration. It will look right at home on your steam and classic-diesel-era freight trains. This 40Ft Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer with Vertical Brake Wheel is one of many Micro-Trains N Scale freight cars.

These Pacific Fruit Express ice reefer with Archbar trucks were built in 1913. They were later rebuilt as an R-30-6, and featured the -curved corner- scheme first used in 1936. Pacific Fruit Express, a joint venture between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, was founded in 1906 and continued jointly until 1978 when the assets were divided between the two railroads.