Birch Beer & Ginger Ale, TT scale boxcar set #2, printed reefer sides

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Birch Beer & Ginger Ale, TT scale boxcar set #2, printed reefer sides:
$3.99

4 boxcars inc. Birch Beer & Club Soda, printed reefer sides. Fourdifferent pairs of boxcar reefer sides printed on8 cardstock sides full color, a pair of each in \"new\" reefer yellow (not weathered) to make 4 different boxcar reefers from the billboard reefer era with a Tuscan brown fascia line across the top. They are in un-weathered reefer yellow this time, but if you would prefer the darker coloring of the previous oranges & lemons sets let me know. If you don\'t want to make your own boxcars or kits, simply glue them onto plastic boxcars with working trucks and couplers. It is recommended that you use an X-acto knife or razor, though I have had good results simply using sharp scissors. There are 4 different Quaker City Refrigerator Express reefers, they are:

#1304 \"J.B. Dickey Belfast GINGER ALE\" Newton, Kansas, image of waitress serving it on a tray
#1305 \"J.B. Dickey ROOT BEER\" Newton, Kansas
#1306 \"J.B. Dickey BIRCH BEER\" Newton, Kansas.
#1307 \"J.B. Dickey sparkling CHAMPAGNE CIDER\" Newton, Kansas

Quaker City Refrigerator Express Line (QREX)was founded by George Woodsmith, founder of Standard Equipment / Standard Tank Car Co, the world\'s largest producer of railroad tank cars before & after WW1. He was a former employee of General American Tank Car Corp (GATX / GARE), which built most of Quaker City\'s 6000 plus reefer, tank & stockcars for them. General American bought out Quaker City in 1928 and changed QREX reporting marks to GARE in the mid-1930s. As of 1927, Quaker City owned 6500 cars of which 2500 were reefers. Some companies that leased Quaker City and GARE cars, such as \"Libby\'s\" and \"Berkshire Ham & Bacon\" kept the same car number but used their own reporting marks. LMN&L for Libby\'s and MAHX for Miller And Hart\'s Berkshire brand. General American also bought out Union Refrigerator Transit Co (URTC), so a number of Quaker City\'s 40-foot reefers were built by URTC. Both GARE and URTC used all-metal \"fish-belly\" underframes with their wood reefers, which had wood sides, ends and roofs painted Tuscan brownish-red. Quaker City and General American painted as many billboard reefers for their customers as possible between February and July of 1934, when billboard reefers were outlawed by the FDR administration but previously painted cars were allowed to remain in service as is.

Red Ball was a major shipper/distributor in the 1920s & 1930s, their Red Ball logo can be found on colorful orange & lemon crate labels from all over California. The Red Ball company of Oregon (no relation) supplied HO traincar kits 1939-1959 using car sides printed on balsawood so the modeler would not have to mess with decals or dry transfers. Strombecker was another HO producer of the period, using cardstock printed car sides assembled onto simple wood kits. Simply cut balsa or basswood to the size of the ends and then glue on the printed cardstock sides. A one-sheet of their instructions will be included with your purchase, or you could just glue them to the sides of an existing 40\' boxcar with Elmer\'s glue. Strombecker suggested putting a 3rd piece of wood in the center to keep the sides from bowing, while Red Ball used solid wood sides. For N or Z scale, NMRA suggests simply cutting an entire piece of balsa wood to the size of a boxcar including the sloped roof.

Or buy \"junk\" boxcars on and glue these sides onto the sides, or even build your own boxcars and glue them to boxcar frames that come up for sale from time to time on with trucks and couplersalready attached. Ordinary Elmer white glue or Testers wood cement should work just fine and give you plenty of time to position each side just right, these are not stickers. You could even buy plastic boxcar or reefer doors from another vender and glue them to the center for more of a 3-d look, and/or attach metal-type scale ladders to the side. These would fit right in with any steam or early diesel-era layout.

If you don\'t like it, simply send them back for a full refund.

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