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Uncataloged Premier O Scale 36' Woodside Reefers Announced

March 6, 2023 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an exclusive and uncataloged Premier Line O Scale 36' Woodside Reefer in unique South Bay Brewing and Sand City Brewing liveries for exclusive distribution by M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Nassau Trains. Available on a first-come, first-served basis, the reefers are each offered in two car numbers and are expected to deliver in September 2023. They are only available directly from Nassau Hobbies.

Item No. 20-94667 South Bay Brewing 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car Number: 25
Pre-Order Price: $74.99 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-94668 South Bay Brewing 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car Number: 2009
Pre-Order Price: $74.99 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-94669 Sand City Brewing 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car Number: 60
Pre-Order Price: $74.99 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-94670 Sand City Brewing 36’ Woodsided Reefer Car
Car Number: 150
Pre-Order Price: $74.99 (plus freight)
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ABOUT THE PREMIER O SCALE 36' WOODSIDE REEFER

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.

EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM:

NASSAU HOBBY CENTER
13 W. MERRICK RD.
FREEPORT, NY 11520
516-378-9594
www.nassauhobby.com
orders@nassauhobby.com

M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing a series of 2023 Premier O Scale 36' Woodside Reefers in four exciting liveries beginning next Summer. Each of these unique schemes will be available in unique car numbers and will be in very limited production quantities. The cars are expected to begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in September 2023.

Check out each of these offerings HERE.

These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.


2023 RailKing O Gauge Halloween Series Announced

M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing several limited-edition Halloween releases beginning this Fall including an ES44 Diesel locomotive and matching caboose, a Bump-n-Go Trolley, and several complementing pieces of rolling stock. The Halloween-themed items continue a trend M.T.H. began back in 2008 and these 2023 releases are a great way to add to your own spooky collection of past cars, sets, and buildings. Each of these offerings is expected to begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in September 2023.

Check out each of these offerings HERE.

These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.


M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing several limited-edition Lighted Billboards beginning this Fall in three unique schemes. Each of these offerings is expected to begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in September 2023.

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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@jim sutter posted:

I love it when a store does a custom run. When we had our store we did several custom run freight cars. They were all done by Weaver. At the time MTH wasn't doing custom runs. Hot Water, why do you worry about what I'm doing.



@John A posted:

What is meant by “bump announcements”? The 1st car appeals to me.

JohnA

To bump means that when someone comments, it “bumps” the post back to the top so it is the first thing someone sees.



@Hot Water posted:

Why do you continue to bump these announcements???

Seriously???!? Jim has been nothing but a nice guy and loves commenting on ALL dealer’s custom runs. He is not allowed to do that? Last I checked, he is allowed.  

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