Reefer, Borden's Fine Cheeses, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Reefer, Borden's Fine Cheeses, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Tenth Anniversary release of Borden's Fine Cheeses Reefer. Now upgraded to use indexed meshes, featuring improved bogies, added cheese and mile loading capability, and more eras added. Original narrative is as follows: This is a 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.

Release History:
1) Kuid 71964 100066 -- April 2003: Paintshed Reskin for Ultimate Trains
2) Kuid2 71964 100066:1 -- August 2011: Progressive Mesh Paintshed Reskin upgraded for TS09
3) Kuid2 71964:100066:2 -- April 2012: Tenth Anniversary Edition for TS12

Author: Russell J. Grasso (deneban)

Reefer, Borden's Fine Cheeses, Tenth Anniversary Edition
40ft_boxcar_body
40ft_boxcar_body.im 50.41KB
cupla.texture.txt 28 bytes
cupla.tga 768.02KB
darkmetal_2-lower-ladder.texture.txt 110 bytes
darkmetal_2-lower-ladder.tga 4.02KB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_metal.tga 192.02KB
grate.texture.txt 28 bytes
grate.tga 12.02KB
handrail copy-handrail_op.texture.txt 112 bytes
handrail copy-handrail_op.tga 16.02KB
ladder copy-ladder_op.texture.txt 62 bytes
ladder copy-ladder_op.tga 16.02KB
main.texture.txt 27 bytes
main.tga 768.02KB
steering_alph-steer_op.texture.txt 106 bytes
steering_alph-steer_op.tga 16.02KB
40ft_boxcar_shadow
40ft_boxcar_shadow.im 10.95KB
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 786 bytes
• borden's fine cheeses reefer poster.jpg 25.25KB
• config.txt 3.86KB