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Uncataloged O Scale Premier 36’ Woodsided Reefer Cars Announced

August 27, 2021 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced two uncataloged Premier O Scale 36’ Woodsided Reefer Cars in unique beer liveries for exclusive distribution for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Stockyard Express. Each paint scheme will be available in two car numbers and is limited in production with a scheduled arrival of November 2021.

Item No. 20-94558 Iroquios Brewing Co. 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car No. 101379
Early Order Price: $69.95

Item No. 20-94559 Iroquios Brewing Co. 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car No. 160503
Early Order Price: $69.95

Item No. 20-94538 Stroh’s Beer 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car No. 1914
Early Order Price: $69.95

Item No. 20-94539 Stroh’s Beer 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car No. 2014
Early Order Price: $69.95

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.

Order Directly From:

Stockyard Express
49293 Plate Road
Oberlin, OH 44074
(440)774-2131
www.stockyardexpressllc.com
Email: stockyardexpress@aol.com

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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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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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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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