Thanks, Miles. I'm a big fan of reefers, too, although in my chosen era, the prototype roads around here both had reefers in that ubiquitous brown, just like boxcars.
This is a model of a CNR 8 hatch reefer with overhead ice bunkers, made from a modified Athearn reefer like those EG&E ones.
Some years ago, when I back-dated my modelling era to the '30s, I sold off 11 EG&E 50' mechanical reefers in the same paint scheme. I still have a fleet of 16 of the forty-footers, with two being lettered for a private lessee, and one in service on cn nutbar's layout. Most of them are the Athearn car, with 5 of them the Train Miniature 40' plugdoor car. I hope to acquire a half dozen or so wooden reefers, either the old TM ones, or those offered by Accurail, although they'll get a different lettering scheme. The main problem with doing more steel reefers is the lack of suitable dry transfer lettering. The "EG&E, with a "dot" substituting for the ampersand, is from the old, large (and expensive) sheets from Letraset, no longer available in this font. It's amazing how many different letters can be altered to make "E"s and "G"s, but the ampersands were just too much trouble. The numbers on the sides are from Letraset Mini Packs, which I haven't seen for some time. Dimensional data is from C-D-S, still available, and the slogan and herald on the other end of the car is from my first set of custom lettering from C-D-S. All that's left from those 50 sheets is a bunch of the black slogans (the sheets consisted of slogans in black and white, enough to do one car in either colour, four large and two small heralds in white, and four large black circles for the herald backgrounds, for use on both reefers and some boxcars) . My next order of custom lettering from C-D-S was in all white, and consisted of the reporting marks and numbers in a couple of different sizes, plus large and small heralds, while a third order has smaller lettering and heralds, plus dimensional data, all in white.
I did do up a few reefers in this scheme, after I ran out of the black backgound circles, by painting the black background for the heralds and piecing together the rest of the lettering. All of these cars were repainted and relettered when I upgraded them with metal sill steps, wire grabirons and reworked roof hatches.
Anyway, the short answer, finally,
is no lettering available for this scheme, other than the black slogan and dimensional data, and the white herald.
While I no longer model any of the actual trackage of the EG&E, most of the reefers in use on the Grand Valley are supplied by them, as they are the majority shareholder. I hope to include a produce warehouse in South Cayuga, with an orchard nearby, in order to utilize more reefers. The Niagara Peninsula, where I live, is often called the Fruit Belt, although some politically correct government type will probably alter that. Still lots of orchards and vineyards around here, although the developers are rapidly gobbling up the land.
Wayne
This is a model of a CNR 8 hatch reefer with overhead ice bunkers, made from a modified Athearn reefer like those EG&E ones.
Some years ago, when I back-dated my modelling era to the '30s, I sold off 11 EG&E 50' mechanical reefers in the same paint scheme. I still have a fleet of 16 of the forty-footers, with two being lettered for a private lessee, and one in service on cn nutbar's layout. Most of them are the Athearn car, with 5 of them the Train Miniature 40' plugdoor car. I hope to acquire a half dozen or so wooden reefers, either the old TM ones, or those offered by Accurail, although they'll get a different lettering scheme. The main problem with doing more steel reefers is the lack of suitable dry transfer lettering. The "EG&E, with a "dot" substituting for the ampersand, is from the old, large (and expensive) sheets from Letraset, no longer available in this font. It's amazing how many different letters can be altered to make "E"s and "G"s, but the ampersands were just too much trouble. The numbers on the sides are from Letraset Mini Packs, which I haven't seen for some time. Dimensional data is from C-D-S, still available, and the slogan and herald on the other end of the car is from my first set of custom lettering from C-D-S. All that's left from those 50 sheets is a bunch of the black slogans (the sheets consisted of slogans in black and white, enough to do one car in either colour, four large and two small heralds in white, and four large black circles for the herald backgrounds, for use on both reefers and some boxcars) . My next order of custom lettering from C-D-S was in all white, and consisted of the reporting marks and numbers in a couple of different sizes, plus large and small heralds, while a third order has smaller lettering and heralds, plus dimensional data, all in white.
I did do up a few reefers in this scheme, after I ran out of the black backgound circles, by painting the black background for the heralds and piecing together the rest of the lettering. All of these cars were repainted and relettered when I upgraded them with metal sill steps, wire grabirons and reworked roof hatches.
Anyway, the short answer, finally,
is no lettering available for this scheme, other than the black slogan and dimensional data, and the white herald.While I no longer model any of the actual trackage of the EG&E, most of the reefers in use on the Grand Valley are supplied by them, as they are the majority shareholder. I hope to include a produce warehouse in South Cayuga, with an orchard nearby, in order to utilize more reefers. The Niagara Peninsula, where I live, is often called the Fruit Belt, although some politically correct government type will probably alter that.
Still lots of orchards and vineyards around here, although the developers are rapidly gobbling up the land.Wayne
