Ted, Gene; I finaly found a picture of this model on ebay, "American Flyer Fruit Growers Express Reefer 24052", item # 5983798935
The car is closest to a ventilated box car, not a reefer. I don't think there is any actual prototype, and the name "United Fruit Growers Express is a combination of United Fruit Company and Fruit Growers Express which I doubt ever existed. The AF model is rather tall for this type of car in scale. If I wanted to use such a car I'd probably paint the roof and ends boxcar red and add a simple scale underframe with a straight center sill and a couple of cross bearers (maybe four in total). Depending on your period, it coule have either arch bar or cast steel 40-50 ton trucks (ACE, AM or SHS would all be suitable). SHS does offer a Northern Refrigerator Car Company Banana car in S which is the closest prototypical model. Pieter --- In [email protected], Ted Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=73863 > http://www.tarheelpress.com/RRphotos.html > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/1631/newmex_wreck.html > http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=185 > http://www.sdrm.org/roster/freight/ref56415/index.html > http://www.geocities.com/oldlahistory/fhix41035.jpg GREAT bunch of reefer photos > http://www.destinationdurbin.com/durbin.html > Don't forget about doing a little web surfing to find answers to questions. > The above took me about 15 minutes to find using GOOGLE.com > > [email protected] wrote: > > Ted and others, Is there a specific prototype for the AF United Fruit > Growers Express banana car. I find the car interesting and would like > to rework it to be more prototypical, running it as a scale conversion. > > Thanks, Gene > > > > Ted Larson > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> 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/
