{"id":524,"date":"2010-06-24T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:46:08","slug":"a-modern-pfe-reefer-in-american-oo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"A Modern PFE Reefer in American OO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among items that came in the OO Inventory was this great modern (1960s) era reefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern1.jpg?resize=486%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2046\" width=\"486\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern1.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern1.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern1.jpg?resize=800%2C500&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This side view is a good overall shot of the car which is clearly fully to scale for American OO and not a conversion from HO. The car itself is made mostly of wood and is probably built on a vintage Picard body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern2.jpg?resize=431%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2047\" width=\"431\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern2.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern2.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern2.jpg?resize=768%2C500&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern2.jpg?resize=850%2C550&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bottom view photo came out better than normal for me of a mostly black surface. Note the vintage Scale-Craft brake cylinder, which is not of the style that would appear on this car (or any other car, actually; it is just a rough representation of a K type brake cylinder), and the date of construction, 1-79. The trucks are the last version of the Johann roller bearing conversion truck, they must have been added later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern3.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2048\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern3.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern3.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern3.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The car ends are vintage as well; they are vintage Famoco die cast ends. Like the brake cylinder, it is not really correct for the car but it is a pretty effective stand-in and this car looks quite good on the layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scan0001.jpg?resize=512%2C404&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2049\" width=\"512\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scan0001.jpg?w=885&amp;ssl=1 885w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scan0001.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scan0001.jpg?resize=768%2C607&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we have a photo take by Bill Johann of a similar car on a railfan trip to the Tehachapi loop. In the Inventory were a number of photos taken by Bill Johann and others, many of them of OO subjects including vintage layout photos. These I will periodically post as time allows, seeing modern equipment such as this in operation was certainly an inspiration for Johann. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among items that came in the OO Inventory was this great modern (1960s) era reefer. This side view is a good overall shot of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-johann","category-scratchbuilding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JohannPFEmodern1.jpg?fit=888%2C558&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}