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Model: PFE 46348 (R-40-20)

A post by Paul Harms on the Facebook Prototype Accurate Model Refrigerator/Insulated Cars group.

He comments:

This PFE R-40-20 started as an Intermountain kit. I changed to the proper ends (Details West) and proper U.P. shield. I have been looking at pictures (PFE book, Ted’s reefer manual, etc.) and trying to piece together the lettering changes. In 1950, these cars had fans added, but there seems to be some minor lettering inconsistencies (contradictions) on the cars that retained their original paint schemes.

Bob Chaparro

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Dick Harley commented:

I guess "Prototype Accurate" is in the mind of the beholder.

See:

The "lettering changes" are well documented in the SPH&TS published book.

And yeah, I wrote the PFE section of it, so I am prejudiced.

Model: PFE 46348 (R-40-20)

Dick Harley commented:

The most glaring (to me) inaccurate part of that R-40-20 model is the height of the door.? Among 40-ft PFE ice reefers, only the R-40-23, -24, and -25 classes had 4-ft doors that extended that close to the roof.? That's why I recommend building an R-40-20 model from an R-40-10 model, though the R-40-20 is an inch or two taller.

Less obvious is the welded underframe of an R-40-23 is not the same as the riveted underframe of an R-40-20, -14 or -10.