Finished another car made from an MDC-Roundhouse shell, Red Ball underframe and parts from InterMountain, PSRX 1009, a reefer used to ship eggs from Washington State to the New York area. Since the car was built in 1930, I changed the roof to a steel one by using Squadron putty to fill in the grooves between planks and used .010" wire for roof seams. Also used Micro_Train National B-1 trucks on the car. Waldbaum's, Eastern agent for Puget Sound Egg Growers, used to have a warehouse in Northern New Jersey on the PRR. PSRX 1009
Nice. The hatches opened to ventilate is a nice touch. The weathering is good, too. The egg business is seldom modeled. I was business manager for a large furniture business in Phoenix back in the early 1970s, and after seeing the carloads of toothpicks and kindling delivered to our warehouse by the Southern Pacific, I can't help but wonder how the railroads ever transported something as fragile, temperature and time-sensitive as eggs.... In fairness to the SP, I doubt these cars were loaded correctly at their points of origin - typically in the Carolinas.
Nice work, 3R. Is Waldbaum's, the supermarket, still in existence in the NYC area? I also find it kind of hard to believe that eggs were special enough to be shipped coast to coast, but it says so right on the car!
Bob (PSG1790), those are Micro-Trains National B-1 trucks. Appropriate for a 1930 built car IIRC. Thanks for the compliments guys!
Love it! Never thought of egg cars--now I'll have to model some to bring the "Fresh Produce and Poultry" from Harrington Farms in the Berkshires to Boston.
