More Roaming in the Attic

Here we have a scratchbuilt Soo Line/URTX wood reefer.  This car is made with Northeastern scribed wood siding along with Selley Custom Finishes, Keil-Line, Walthers, and Cal-Scale parts.  There is a complete brake and air system on the underframe.  These older wood reefer cars were found on several railroads into the mid-1960's and early 1970's.  This car is based on photographs of these cars from the mid to late 1950's and served the various agricultural industries of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.  Most cars hauled apples, cherries, potatoes, cheese, and other dairy products.  I saw several of these cars on the Milwaukee road south of Green Bay at the Reimer's packing plant along the Fox River.  These cars would haul pork carcasses for the famous sausage maker to the plant and were often used to ship out finished Reimer's sausages to parts unknown and known.  Hope you like the car.