Photo from Lee A. Gautreaux's Home Page (The Rail Goat Railfan)
Class R-40-25 from Series 2001-5000.???
Description:??
These 40' steel refrigerator cars were all built to the same basic design by SP Equipment Company in 1949-50 and featured diagonal panel rooves, taller bar+3/3 Improved Dreadnaught ends and 4'-0" doors. A group of 25 cars had meat rails added and were renumbered PFE 82001-82025 in 1963. Another group of 575 cars were renumbered into the PFE 12001-15000 series in 1965-67. Another group of 90 cars were renumbered into the PFE 60001-60999 series in 1970. Another group of 90 cars were renumbered PFE 65001-65999 in 1970.
My Notes:
Bob Dengler photo.
About 85 cars were placed into meat service, identified by an ¡°8¡± placed in front of their original numbers. 180 cars eventually were assigned to top ice vegetable (TIV) service.
About 500 cars still were in revenue service by 1973.
Photos and discussion in the PFE book begin on Page 179.
InterMountain has HO scale R-40-25 reefers available with six original car numbers and a 1949 build date.
Bob Chaparro