Product Description
Rapido 521040 N GARX 37′ Meat Refeer -URTX
The Rapido wood reefer is based on a design built between 1937 and 1941 by General American Transportation (GARX). Although built with a wooden sheathed body and roof that made them look like a car from an earlier era, these GARX cars were modern for their time.
They were constructed on a steel underframe of similar construction to boxcar underframes then in common use and featured AB brakes, Equipco brake wheels and housings and Barber S-1 trucks. More than 940 cars were built to this configuration making it one of the most numerous meat reefer designs, and they lasted in service into the 1970’s. They would normally be assigned to meat service only, running between meat packing houses and regional dealers throughout North America, Including Canada.
Notable features of the General American meat reefer are wood body with three hinge doors (utilizing the GARX triangular hinge design), a wood roof with steel hatches and unique latches, side and end ladders, power handbrakes, and a steel underframe with a tabbed side sill. All of these features are included on the new Rapido model. Also found on the model is a FULL underframe with complete brake equipment, all new trucks with brake shoes in line with the wheel tread and new metal wheelsets. Microtrains couplers are fitted at the factory.
Our N Scale Model Features:
- Accurate tooling – never offered before in N scale!
- Prototypical ride height
- Fully decorated and assembled with factory-installed Microtrains couplers
- Full underbody with seperate brake rods and piping
- Correct roof hatch and latch details
- NEW Rapido Barber S1-A trucks with in-line brake shoes and blackened metal wheelsets
- 9” Minimum radius