Fig. 1
RR87 FOLIO
Fig. 2
RR90 FOLIO
The Santa Fe’s class Rr-87 cars were 53′-4″ over the end sills and measured 14′-4″ to the eaves, 15′-0¹⁷/₃₂″ over the running boards.. Built in the railroad’s Topeka Shops in 1965, there were 395 cars in this group, numbers 50300-50694. They were equipped with Camel plug doors with a 9′-0″ wide door, Improved Dreadnaught ends and cushion draft gear,
Register: Pacific Fruit Express, 12,000; Santa Fe Refrigerator Department (four reporting marks), 3,600; Western Fruit Express/Burlington Refrigerator Ex- press/BN, 2,500; Fruit Growers Express (including WPRX), 2,200.
Athearn has produced several mod- els painted for WFEX and BREX using their PFE models, and a model of a Fruit Growers 50-foot RBL type car
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
(the AAR code for an insulated boxcar) has been done by several manufactur- ers in the last 15 or so years, most re- cently by Walthers. Athearn has also produced mechanical refrigerator mod- els painted for Fruit Growers Express, again using their PFE models. Santa Fe (using reporting marks SFRB, SFRC, SFRD, SFRE, or SFRP) had the second-largest mechanical refrigerator
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car fleet in the United States, and no one has made accurate, mass-produced models of any of the SFRD “Mechani- cal Temperature Control”cars. Athearn sells a model of its PFE R70-11 painted and lettered for a Santa Fe Rr-63 me- chanical reefer (not a particularly close match) and their R70-20 painted and lettered for a Santa Fe Rr-91 mechani- cal reefer (better, but not accurate).
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