Canadian Pacific Eight-Hatch Reefer

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This is an interesting car you can to your roster.
This is model photo from the NAPM Model Railroad Club:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/napmltd/31815279068/

Canadian Pacific 283405 is a 40' overhead ice bunker refrigerator car built by National Steel Car in 1954. Compared to end ice bunkers on traditional refrigerator cars, the overhead bunkers can maintain a more uniform temperature throughout the entire car for a longer length of time — especially when sitting still. These cars were popular with Canadian railroads which handled a lot of export meat shipments where loaded cars might have to sit at a port for a while before being unloaded.
Spotting features of these cars are the eight hatches along the roof of the car, shorter door height due to the overhead bunkers, and a permanent charcoal heater mounted under the car.
This model is by True Line Trains

Tony Thompson discussed these cars in a blog post:

http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/ ... tches.html

When used for export meat service these cars traveled great distances.
Here is a link to a photo of a CP car in Southern California:

https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20988463

The car is to the right in the photo. There also is a West India Fruit & Steamship Company car in this photo.

GHQ have done a nice kit of this car in N scale:
http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/zm18.html