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Uncataloged Premier O Scale Skyline Chili 40’ Steel Sided Reefer Car Announced
February 1, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an exclusive Premier O Scale 40' Steel Sided Reefer Car for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Dixie Union Station featuring exclusive Skyline Chili livery. The car will be produced in very limited quantities in two different car numbers and is available for order on a first-come, first-served basis, with an anticipated arrival date of April 2022. Item No. 20-94625 Skyline Chili 40' Steel Sided Reefer Car Item No. 20-94626 Skyline Chili 40' Steel Sided 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. Among other things, the reefer enabled Chicago to become "Hog Butcher for the World"; in pre-reefer days, livestock had been transported to local markets and butchered as close as possible to the final consumer. In the 19th Century, ice for reefers was harvested from frozen ponds each winter and stored as well as possible in insulated icehouses. The advent of mechanical ice-making around 1900 greatly increased the capacity of the reefer fleet, which at its height consumed over one million tons of ice annually. Since loaded cars needed to be re-iced about once per day, icing stations were erected around the country on shipping routes that could be as long as coast-to-coast. Famed railroad historian John H. White referred to reefers as "the most conservative of all American freight cars," as reefers retained wood frames and sides long after other types of cars had converted to steel construction. Steel-sided reefers like this Premier model became common only after 1940, and many wood reefers ran well into the 1960s. Mechanical reefers, with self-powered refrigeration units in each car, became the norm in the second half of the 20th century, and the practice of stopping a train to re-ice during shipment gradually disappeared. EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE THRU: Dixie Union Station |
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M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the RailKing O Gauge 50’ Double Door Plugged Boxcars in four select liveries in 2022. 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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