Rapido Trains Inc Class R-40-27 Steel Reefer 6-Pack - Ready to Run Set #1

-PRE ORDER ITEM! ARRIVING AUGUST 2024- Pacific Fruit Express Set #1 (1966 Scheme, orange, black, silver, Large Letter) The Rapido Trains HO Scale Pacific Fruit Express R-40-27 and -28 Reefer is based on steel refrigerator cars built from January through August 1957, with a total of 1700 cars built in class R-40-27. They were placed into the PFE 10001-11700 numbering series and featured a 4-foot-wide Youngstown sliding plug-door, sliding toward the left, combined with a 2-foot-wide hinged door to the right of it. This created a 6-foot-wide opening when both were opened, or just a 2-foot-wide opening if the car needed to be inspected before unloading in order to retain the cool interior temperature. Soon the R-40-27 car's plans were modified with a six-foot sliding plug-door, along with the established 2-foot-wide swinging door, creating the new class R-40-28 cars, of which there were 100 (PFE 11701-11800) constructed by July 1957. Both the R40-27 and R-40-28 class cars were ice cooled a