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N gauge ACF 2 bay Centerflow covered hopper demonstrator car
N gauge 60' Auto parts car undecorated
This 40’ double-sheathed wood reefer with vertical brake wheel is brown with grey decorated sides and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1927, this car was leased by North American Refrigerator Line to the Chicago-based American Cranberry Exchange in 1933. Used through the 1940s to ship “Eatmor” brand cranberries, it was equipped with permanent floor racks and two, 235 cubic foot ice bunkers.
This 40’ double-sheathed wood reefer with vertical brake wheel is brown with grey decorated sides and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in March 1926, this North Western Refrigerator Line owned reefer was assigned to Stokely Brothers and Company in the early 1930s, receiving a new paint job and reporting marks.
Bluford Shops 2-Bay War-Emergency Composite Hoppers are based on cars used for coal and aggregates from WWII into the 1970s. At the direction of the War Production Board in hopes of saving as much steel as possible for the war effort, these composite (steel and wood) cars were built during the Second World War with wood siding and slope sheets. This was especially the case with hoppers that were usually built with copper-bearing steel to resist corrosion. The car sides were built with the Pratt truss design using a combination of vertical and diagonal ribs. A majority were later rebuilt with steel replacing the wood components but some composite cars remained in service into the 1970s.