Borden's Fine Cheeses Reefer

Borden's Fine Cheeses Reefer

Borden's Fine Cheeses Reefer (Rev 0) 40 foot billboard steel ice-loaded reefer (Refrigerator Car) circa mid-1930s, also known as a Diary Car. These once represented progressive technology over wooden reefers: a) Corrugated steel ends dramatically improved structural reliability with shifting loads and ice dumps; b) greater environmental longevity than wooden construction; and c) an elaborate mobile full-length billboard marketing tool was available to the owner or advertiser. The only drawback was the steel better conducted heat into the car whereas wood was a better insulator. Ice reefers remain superior to their contemporaries with respect to their ability to immediately load "warm sun-heated produce" without requiring a cool-down period. The facade of this model was scanned from a 1959 Mantua/Tyco HO scale car which actually has a steel billboard overlay on plastic. This model version unfortunately uses a box car template, and therefore does not depict roof ice doors.-Russ Grasso (deneban) 4/03

Author: Russell J. Grasso

Borden's Fine Cheeses Reefer
borden's fine cheeses reefer_art
borden's fine cheeses reefer_art_512.texture.txt 67 bytes
borden's fine cheeses reefer_art_icon.texture.txt 67 bytes
consist.bmp 24.05KB
consist_a.bmp 9.05KB
preview.bmp 768.05KB
preview_a.bmp 257.05KB
• colormap.dat 434 bytes
• config.txt 2.54KB
• main.bmp 768.05KB
• main.texture.txt 29 bytes
• skin.dat 641 bytes