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Uncataloged O Scale Swift Refrigerator Premier 36’ Woodsided Reefer Cars Announced
January 7, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an uncataloged Premier O Scale Swift Refrigerator 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car for exclusive distribution for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Stockyard Express. This car is limited in production and is available in FOUR car numbers. It is only available directly from Stockyard Express for just $69.95 (Plus Freight) and has an expected delivery date of May 2022. Item No. 20-94617 Swift Refrigerator 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car Item No. 20-94618 Swift Refrigerator 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car Item No. 20-94619 Swift Refrigerator 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car Item No. 20-94620 Swift Refrigerator 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car ABOUT THE PREMIER O SCALE 36’ WOODSIDED REEFER CAR The coming of the railroad changed the way America ate and drank. Before the iron horse connected every town of any importance to the outside world, most food was grown or produced locally. The arrival of cheap, fast, refrigerated transport — in the form of the woodsided reefer with ice bunkers at each end — enabled local brewers, dairies, meat processors, and other food businesses to become players on a national scale. Until 1934, shippers could advertise their wares on leased billboard reefers, each a hand-painted traveling work of art. That year, the Interstate Commerce Commission outlawed the flamboyant paint schemes because the cars often hauled shipments from other companies — whose freight bills thus unfairly paid to advertise the lessee’s products. What doomed the billboard cars was truth in labeling. Depending on shipping needs, billboard cars often carried loads for customers other than the company named on the car sides. A beer company requesting an empty reefer for loading, for example, might find a cheese maker’s delivered to its door. Shippers were not happy when their product was carried in a car bearing a large ad for someone else’s product — they complained that their freight bill had in part paid for another company’s advertising. Stockyard Express |
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M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the RailKing O Gauge 50' Modern Boxcar in five select liveries beginning this Spring. Each of these unique schemes will be available in limited production quantities and will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in April 2022. Check out each of these offerings HERE. These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. | ||||||
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