In 1964 ART made a major change to their painting and lettering scheme. With the arrival of Downing Jenks as the new president of the Missouri Pacific and the Wabash being merged into the Norfolk and Western, ART changed their paint scheme from the traditional reefer yellow with boxcar red roof and ends and black underframe and trucks to reefer orange sides, ends and roof with black underframe and trucks. The heralds, which had been painted as simple black outlines since 1960 remained the same except the Wabash flag fell, being replaced with N&Ws circular herald.

Now, just in time for Christmas, you can own an HO-scale replica of these steel reefers, the only models that accurately represent these cars with their unique lap side horizontal seam with rivets.

The assembled cars come with six road numbers, 32096, 32117, 32148, 33016,33307 and 33429. To note the change in owndeship of the Wabash, on this set of models we lettered the cars with a reweigh location and date of XD 1-65, which was the Wabash’s Decatur, Illinois facility. The build date is 1-41.

Kits come painted and lettered but without any car numbers, build dates, or reweigh stencil dates. A decal set from Oddballs Decals is included with each kit that provides a selection of 32000 and 33000-series car numbers, build dates, and reweigh and repack data from which to choose.