Roundhouse 1450 HO Scale 50' Mechanical Reefer Canadian National CN 231142 GROM The Walthers Cornerstone Brick Cape

The Walthers Cornerstone Brick Cape Cod House is typical of standardized design homes constructed by the thousands in the postwar era

Controlled heat dissipation system

Bonus giant cardboard display base & backdrop

No Sinclair antenna mounted on top of clean air cab

Roundhouse 1450 HO Scale 50' Mechanical Reefer Canadian National CN 231142 GROM The Walthers Cornerstone Brick CapeRoundhouse 1450 HO Scale 50' Mechanical Reefer Canadian National CN 231142 The railroads responded to the migration from ice stored in bunkers as a primary cooling system to the diesel mechanical systems. The mechanical reefers could keep a more regular temperature, often times colder then what the ice bunker cars could at the time. Initially mechanical reefers were used primarily in frozen food service. This would soon change as mechanical