This 40’ steel ice reefer with Preco fan is painted reefer yellow with box car red roof & ends and black sill, red, black & white Monad herald, black arched ‘Northern Pacific’ lettering and black slogan. Part of the first block of new steel reefers built in October 1947 by Pacific Car & Foundry in Renton, Washington for Northern Pacific Railway Co., N.P. 91039 was originally delivered with a 36 inch Monad herald and black door hardware. Serviced and repainted in January 1960 in the last scheme used on NP’s ice reefers; the slogan that reads ‘Scenic Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited’, with a 60 in. diameter NP Monad herald and door hardware that matches the car side