some years, InterMountain has marketed a very accurate and
complete model for this car class. It is by far the best model-
ing option. They have numbered many of their models in a re-
stricted number series, but with model PFE decals (more on that
below), one can easily change car numbers to spread the models
over the entire class number series, see (21) for my model.
By the 1950s, most cars would have been repainted; many also
received steel-grid running boards and car fans in the late 1940s
and early 1950s. My model shows those characteristics.
Class R-40-26.
This was a 2000-car class, not one of the big-
gest in the PFE fleet, but a distinctive car because it was PFE’s first
class with sliding (plug) doors. These have been offered in brass
22: This representative of PFE Class R-40-26 is a
Challenger brass model, which was repainted and
relettered correctly. The model originally had a fan
control box below the side sill on this right side, which
is incorrect; it was removed. The model is shown on
my layout at Ballard.
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