Charles Smiley
cspmovies
I first scratch built this car back around 1980. I built it with steel-riveted sides. Back then everything was plastic with fake-looking ladders and grabiron details molded in the ends and sides.
But I had bad info from a Champ decal book on colors and lettering. It showed a rivet-steel car in yellow that would be changed to orange many years before the rebuilding added steel ends. It was my mistake back in a modeling era that was less concerned about these things.
So I had to finally rebuild the side panels completely again and repaint and letter it. I already have plenty of SP-UP PFE orange reefers and I wanted at least one WP-PFE version - so here it is.
But I had bad info from a Champ decal book on colors and lettering. It showed a rivet-steel car in yellow that would be changed to orange many years before the rebuilding added steel ends. It was my mistake back in a modeling era that was less concerned about these things.
So I had to finally rebuild the side panels completely again and repaint and letter it. I already have plenty of SP-UP PFE orange reefers and I wanted at least one WP-PFE version - so here it is.