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50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
BREX -Burlington Refrigerator Express
No. 1623 -1971 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Canadian Pacific
No. 1619 -1971 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Jersey Central 
No. 1622 -1971 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Libby Famous Foods 
No. 1625 TLDX #37 -1965 Release
No. 1625 TLDX #45 -1994 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Merchants Despatch New York Central - NYMX
 -1965 Release

Athearn Mechanical Refrigerator
                           Car

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Milwaukee 
No. 1620 -1971 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Northern Pacific 
No. 1628 -1965 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Pacific Fruit Express
No. 1627 -1965 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Safeway
No. 1629 -1968 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Santa Fe
No. 1630 -1965 Release

50-foot Mechanical Refrigerator Car
Undecorated 
No. 1624 -1965 Release

Athearn's rivet-side 50-foot Mechanical Reefer joins the company's line in 1965. First appearance for this release is the fall of 1965 in an Athearn advertisement promoting 24 all-new paint schemes and new 50-foot plug door box car and 50-foot mechanical reefer.

The model is similar in design to Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) R-50-6 class (PFE #300713-301212). This group of PFE mechanical refrigerator cars were constructed by Southern Pacific Equipment Company and date to the late 1950s.

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