Don't forget Gene Green's well-researched volume in the Morning Sun series of books. Many of the cars it deals with are the 36 or 37-foot cars, but not all are. A very fine volume.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Don Thompson Sent: Thu 8/12/2010 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Cc: e-group Subject: {S-Scale List} RE: Refrigerator Cars Books We have used many sources over the years to find information on Reefer cars and their paint schemes. One of my first purchases was "The Great Yellow Fleet" by John H. White jr. is a great first source. Ron Sebastian recommended the CB&Q HS magazine "The Burlington Bulletin issue 12". A very good history of the BREX with many prototype drawings for their cars as well as FGEX and WFEX (all jointly owned and serviced). My next source was a soft cover but hefty book put out by the Santa Fe HS about Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch. Then we purchased Tony Thompson's, history of the Pacific Fruit Express. These books all had one thing in common, a very limited audience thus a very expensive cover price. For us they were all worth every penny. Lastly I would recommend a small but tall booklet put out by Atlas "O". It covers the first 100 roadnames of their PS 40' wooden reefer. There are lots of sepia prototype images that they used for many of their roadnames. They also include color side shots of each model reefer they produced. I know that they went to great pains to try and match the colors and artwork for each prototype scheme. Don ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
