I own only one, an S Fest Convention MILW URTX scheme, bought from the Chuck Porter estate--so I cannot say whetherit came with the SHS Andrews trucks (a good choice for a woodside car) and Kadees with which I bought mine.I'd say your description is about right: a bit better than AM (which has only steel cars, and those plug door--for real steel refrigerator cars it is PRS/SSA/DPH) although perhaps not so good as SHS. So far as I can tell, it is a scaled-down version of their O scale car. In O scale Crown (a partnership in the Boston area that was primarily in the business of limited-run paint schemes and reportedly did most of the pad-printing for Weaver) had three cars: the woodside refrigerator car, a single-sheathed boxcar, and an AAR smaller capacity steel boxcar, all prototypes filling a niche in O scale at the time. Probably they commissioned the die work to provide subjects/objects for their printing. Eventually they sold the dies to Weaver, which still offers those three kinds of cars. I have no idea where the S scale dies went (presumably not to Weaver, as they don't do S scale) nor whether there were any other cars than the refrigerator (probably not, or I'd have seen some reference to them, even in the mere three years I've been in S scale). Jace Kahn
General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:34:23 -0400 Subject: {S-Scale List} Crown Reefer [2 Attachments] [Attachment(s) from Bill Lane included below] I just bought my first ever Crown Reefer on a goof. I recently did 2 high end O Scale cars as West India Fruit & Steamship Co. It was an intrusting looking scheme. The likelihood of this car running through South Jersey on the PRSL is probably not so good though! I lucked out that is already had SHS trucks & scale wheels. I guess they all had SHS trucks? The high rail versions had the SHS coupler? I added about 3 ounces and put on Kadee couplers – good enough. Better than American Models – not as good as SHS. I will eventually have a new icing platform so a variety of reefers would be good. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at:http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL Attachment(s) from Bill Lane 2 of 2 Photo(s) West India Fruit Reefer 1.jpg West India Fruit Reefer 2.jpg
