Original page created on 23/12/2014; updated on 03/12/2023.
Brand - Reference
LS Models 30398-1 et 2
Type
D-standard refrigerating wagon leased to STEF
| UIC number | Revision date |
| 11 87 082 0 837-6 P | 27.1.71 |
| 11 87 082 1 082-8 P | 12.4.71 |
Weight
48 g (NEM: 48 to 63 g); 59 g after ballasting.
Comments
Female roof clips, stirrup-shaped, near the four corners of the lateral sides, and two guides maintaining the spacing of the walls in their middle. Unclipping is quite easy.
No. 837 (grey roof) has badly mounted, not well
pushed in and skewed, but very well glued buffers, as well
as roof fans and brake blocks.
The other is mounted correctly. So there
is little rigorous manufacturing monitoring, as often. Unfortunately,
the buffers seem very delicate to dismantle.
The end ramps are not parallel to the ladders. There is obviously
a positioning problem: compare with
the original. 
See also inclination dimensions in
the comparative table opposite. It would be necessary that the
fixation of the bottom is a little higher, and that of the top is
closer to the end wall reinforcement.
Both wagons are equipped with plain bearing axle boxes (standard for one, Athermos for the other) and with towing diabolos, so in a version not really era IV (one has even a spoked wheel axle — changed afterwards). I would have appreciated that one of the two be equipped with roller bearing axle boxes.
Finally, the letters STEF should be black, not blue, or much darker: all photos of the time, as well as some films attest it. Here is for example a film excerpt on the Vierzon depot.
And don’t tell me that the colours of the film are too much faded to judge: we still clearly see that the BB 67000 loco is blue, and that the Interfrigo and Réfrigérant markings are red.
The complete film (27:40) can be seen on Youtube. The excerpt begins around the 16th minute.
See the Loco-Revue Forum.
Modifications
- Buffers repositioned on No. 837. Two were taken off without breakage and then reassembled properly. A third had its (male) tenon broken; it was glued with Kibri liquid glue. Spoke wheel axle was exchanged with an OCEM plain wheel axle.
- Extra ballast of 11 g.
History
C and D-Standard refrigerating wagons for early vegetables (.Is) 11 87 082 0 249-4 to 2 073-6, meat (.Ics) 11 87 082 4 009-8 to 4 394-4, and fish (.Ids) 11 87 083 7 008-5 to 7 057-2, built in more than 2 000 units between 1948 and 1959 by Ets Cadoux, Atelier de construction d’Épluches, Coder, Brissonneau & Lotz and Boileau-Pétolat.
Ex SNCF numbering HI 5xxx xxx.
Wagons numbered 082 1 557 to 1 705 are equipped with steam pipes and electric heating cables, with the aim of being incorporated in a passenger train. None of the two numbers presented by LSM should be equipped, but however the locations and accessories are provided.
The STEF, Société de Transports et d’Entrepôts Frigorifiques — Company of Refrigerated Transport and Warehouses, was created in 1920. It is still active nowadays, but has not been managing wagons for a long time.
Documents
- Loco-Revue sheet
No. 465 / 73 c 39 (former series). Sheet preview.
- Photos from the 1951 brochure of the Groupe français pour la fourniture de matériel de chemin de fer — French Group for the supply of railway stock.
Photo Jean-Paul Demoy in Loco-Revue No. 669.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 10 460 | 120.2 | 121.3 |
| Chassis length | 9 280 | 106.7 | 106.6 |
| Width | 2 780 | 32.0 | 32.4 |
| Height 1 | 3 953 | 45.4 | 45.3 |
| Overall height | 4 174 | 48.0 | 48.4 |
| Wheelbase | 6 000 | 69.0 | 68.7 |
| Wheel diameter | 1 050 | 12.1 | 12.0 |
| Ladder angle 1 | 68.5 ° | — | 68.3 ° |
| Ramp angle 1 | 68.5 ° | — | 73.0 ° |
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Document available as a PDF.
For conditions, see page
Loco-Revue documentary sheets.
Document available as a PDF.
For conditions, see page
Books and magazines.
Longer, but paradoxically lighter than OCEM wagons sold with. Brass bearings. Fine flanged wheels (0.8) and of correct diameter. Too long buffers.