Howard Gault Produce in Hereford shipped potatoes and onions in ventilated refrigerator cars.
The building is a mock-up which I drew in Aobe Illustrator, printed on a large format printer
and mounted to chip board. I then cut it out and asembled with balsa wood bracing.
The reefers are InterMountain kits... note the open hatches for ventilator service.
Baldwin DS-44-1000 is heavily modified from the Stewart model to simulate switcher 2262 used in Amarillo in 1955.
The extended stack and radio box and antenna are scratchbuilt. Note the cab awnings! The zebra stripes are Champ decals.
A Lentz "Gold" decoder makes this model run extremely well.
Pal Bill Childers furnished Martin Lofton of Sunshine Models the information to develop the work train kits. Bill bought
a set and Martin gave him another when the kits came out. Bill conned me into building them (16 in all) and told me to
take half for my efforts! Here they are sitting on a siding on a cold Panhandle morning.
This FT-J flat car is a Sunshine Models kit with a Sunshine pressure tank load. During our operating sessions, the car is
consigned from Superior Manufacturing Company in Amarillo. Superior was a company used by Billie Sol Estes in the 1960s
to manufacture "non-existant" fertilizer tanks for Billie Sol's financial shenanigans. For which he became a guest of the
Texas Prision System for many years. A tactic now practiced by many in our current U.S. Congress!
