IMRC N-SCALE WEST INDIA FRUIT WOOD REFER CAR, YELLOW w/STEAM SHIP LOGO WIF #722

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InterMountain Railway Company N-Scale WEST INDIA FRUIT WOOD REFRIGERATOR CAR, YELLOW w/STEAM SHIP LOGO, WIF #722 Car No. WIF #722 Built late 1940s. The first picture is of the model in the plastic case. Item No. 67704-02 This item is part of a fruit refrigerator car to run with the other Refers you will find up for sale. Others are Dubuque, Morrell, Patrick Cudahy, Sioux City Dressed Beef and several other Fruit Refers. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th items of similar size receive free shipping in the same box, a saving of $5.75 for 2 and $11.50 for 3 and $17.25 for 4. Features: ► Micro-Trains Trucks and Couplers ► Low profile wheels Refrigerator Cars are included in the Billboard Car group because they usually have advertising on the sides, some more and some less. This car has less but is still colorful. What's a billboard car... Billboard cars are the most colorful and individualistic freightcars in the world - the "Private Owner" freezers and box cars of the turn-of-the-century era of railroading. Outlawed by the I.C.C. in the early thirties, as an unfair advertising practice, they have now become legend. Their popularity, though, lives on with rail fans. Start your collection now! Railroad refrigerator cars revolutionized America 's eating habits. Prior to the large-scale use of "reefers," fresh fruit and vegetables were available to people of ordinary means only for brief periods and only in and near the areas where they were grown. Many people in the northern two-thirds of the continent had never eaten an orange; some had never even seen one. Vegetables came in cans if at all, with most of their flavor and crispness cooked out of them, and lettuce salads were an unimaginable luxury. Long strings of refrigerator cars traveling east from the Pacific Coast and north from Florida and the Gulf Coast states changed all that, carrying fresh, ripe oranges, grapefruit, grapes, peaches, lettuce, and other products of field and grove to grocery stores in every part of the land. A refrigerator car (or "reefer" ) is a refrigerated boxcar (US) , a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and ventilated boxcars (commonly used for transporting fruit ), neither of which are fitted with cooling apparatus. Reefers can be ice -cooled , come equipped with any one of a variety of mechanical refrigeration systems, or utilize carbon dioxide (either as dry ice , or in liquid form) as a cooling agent. Milk cars (and other types of "express" reefers) may or may not include a cooling system, but are equipped with high-speed trucks and other modifications that allow them to travel with passenger trains . Refrigerator cars (also called “reefers”) were developed to carry perishable food and dairy products long distances by keeping them cold. They’re similar to boxcars, but with heavy insulation (like an icebox) and special “plug” doors which form a tight seal when closed. This type of reefer used large blocks of ice to keep its cargo cool. Beginning in the 1880’s refrigerator cars made it possible to ship California-grown fruit and produce to cities in the East, where the products were soon in high demand. As a result, California agriculture boomed. A 'refrigerator car' (or '"reefer"') is a refrigerated boxcar , a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and ventilated boxcars (commonly used for transporting fruit), neither of which are fitted with cooling apparatus. Reefers can be ice-cooled, come equipped with any one of a variety of mechanical refrigeration systems, or utilize carbon dioxide (either as dry ice , or in liquid form) as a cooling agent. Milk cars (and other types of "express" reefers) may or may not include a cooling system, but are equipped with high-speed trucks and other modifications that allow them to travel with passenger trains .<... read more

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