Animated icing platform - 1
Animation on the
icing platform ...
M
y O-gauge lay-
out has a
vaguely south-
western theme. I love the
red rock canyons in Utah
and Colorado, but live in
1: Workers are busy icing
PFE 97681 in prepara-
tion for its trip back east
with another load of per-
ishables from the Central
Valley of California.
California. It occurred to me that I needed to recreate a scene
from my childhood, a string of wood-sided Pacific Fruit Express
reefers. Typical of those seen in California’s Central Valley in
the ‘50s, they were packed with fruit and vegetables for deliv-
ery to Chicago or St. Louis.
Lionel offered some finely detailed wood-sided PFE reefers,
offered both in a 3-pack (6-11657) and singly (6-27361) in their
2006 Vol. 2 catalog. I now have nine, making a nice consist on
my 10’ x 11.5’ spare bedroom layout.
But the reefers need ice, that is loaded through their roof
hatches. With layout space tight, I looked at my loading dock,
2: This is my existing dock and siding location where I
chose to add the icing platform.
2
Build an animated
icing platform
– by Bob Anderson
Model Photos by the author
MRH-Aug 2013
