The NJ HiRailers have announced the release of their second club car. It is an MTH 36 foot woodside billboard reefer. The paint scheme has never been done in O scale. It is lettered for the Rubsam and Hormann Brewery of Staten Island. There will be two numbers available 185 and 2003. They are currently going into production and will be delivered this summer. The end caps will have the "NJ HiRailers Paterson NJ" on them and will not be anywhere on the sides of the car. The price of the car is 69.95 and shipping is 9.95 for either one or two cars. We have set up our website to accept orders and payments through Paypal. Access is at this URL http://www.njhirailers.com/njhr-store We can also accept checks by contacting us at njhirailers@yahoo.com. This is a Verry limited run and our club members pre purchased many of the cars. Payment is due upon ordering.
R&H beer was located in the Stapleton section of Staten Island They didn't have a railroad siding but they shuttled beer by truck to The Baltimore and Ohio Railroads Staten Island Freight house.
R&H beer was in business from the late 1890's until 1962 when it was purchased by New Yorks Piel Brothers. The brewery was run by Piels into the early 1970's. It is the large building in the background of the picture
As for the car here is some info
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, diaries, 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. Responding to these complaints, the Interstate Commerce Commission in July 1934 mandated the phasing out of billboard reefers and ruled that thereafter, the lessee's name on a car could be no more than 12" high. By law, all billboard reefers were removed from service by January, 1937, although many soldiered on in drabber paint schemes as late as the 1960s.
MTH Premier O Scale freight cars are the perfect complement to any manufacturer's scale proportioned O Gauge locomotives. Whether you prefer to purchase cars separately or assemble a unit train, MTH Premier Rolling Stock has the cars for you in a variety of car types and paint schemes. Many of MTH's Premier Rolling Stock offerings can also operate on the tightest O Gauge curves giving them even more added versatility to your layout.
Features
- Intricately Detailed Durable ABS Body
- Metal Wheels and Axles
- Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
- Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
- Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
- Decorative Brake Wheels
- Separate Metal Handrails
- Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
- Needle-Point Axles
- 1:48 Scale Dimensions
- Operates On O-31 Curves
