HO PFE R-40-27 Reefer 1957 Model (RPI196001A)

An HO-scale plastic model recreates a Pacific Fruit Express refrigerated car from 1957, the R-40-27 class used to haul perishable freight across the United States. This Rapido HO-scale release captures the era’s ice-cooled reefers with period door arrangements and cooling features.

Details include true-to-scale construction, separate wire grab irons, correct running boards and brake wheels, proper cooling fan housings per road number, and positionable roof hatches. It rides on free-rolling trucks with turned metal wheels and uses semi-scale metal couplers for smooth operation. Accurate paint and decoration are applied, and multiple road numbers are offered for each scheme, making it easy to build a historically authentic roster of PFE reefers. In service, these ice-cooled cars carried perishables coast-to-coast, from Western and Midwestern farms to markets in the East and Southeast, a mid-century railway story this model helps bring to life on HO layouts.