Color shots of wood ART reefers in the 1950’s

[Charles Duckworth]

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[anonymous]

Has there ever been a good HO model of these cars? Years ago I had a Silver Streak car that was sort of like them.

[Charles Duckworth]

Pat
Sunshine Models did a resin kit of the ART wood reefer but it was an early kit and somewhat crude compared to his last models.

Im not aware on any current plastic models that are even close. You’d think as large of a company ART was there be a model out.

Westerfield makes a resin early ART car but I think most were retired by the 1940’s.

Charlie

[David Boeschen]

Interesting — the one that wasn’t wrecked is a relatively late repaint without black paint on the hardware and with no striping around the reporting marks. But what color is the splash zone below the door?

RG7

[Charles Duckworth]

Ron
It looks to be freight car red or brown.

[chastity_cumming]

Sunshine made one but discontinued it early. Lee Freeman gave me his to rework. I made a new roof and decals to supplement the Champ set and Terry Wegman (of Pacific Freight Enterprises) made it into a one piece body. Lee and I got 5 each of the 31 car run. You can see mine at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151002172809/http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/modeling/ART.html

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