St. Pauli Beer, Whiskey & Brandy boxcar set#4, printed O scale reefer sides

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St. Pauli Beer, Whiskey & Brandy boxcar set#4, printed O scale reefer sides:
$6.99

Beer,Whiskey & Brandyboxcars, scale printed 40-foot reefer sides. 4 different pairs of boxcar reefer sides printed on 8 cardstock sides full color, a pair of each in reefer yellow to make 4 different boxcar reefers from the billboard reefer era with aTuscan brown fascia line across the top. If you don\'t want to makeyour own boxcars or kits, simply glue them onto plastic boxcars withworking trucks and couplers. It is recommended that you use an X-actoknife or razor, though I have had good results simply using sharpscissors. There are 4 different Quaker City Refrigerator Expressreefers. They are:

#1212\"WALNUT HILL RyeWhiskey\" TheAmerican Liquor Co.
#1213\"St. Pauli Girl Beer\" St. Pauli Brewery, Bremen, Germany
#1214\"Hawthorne Apricot Brandy\" Laundrie Bros., N.Y.
#1215\"Airport Straight Whiskey\" The American Liquor Co., Boston,Mass.

QuakerCity Refrigerator Express Line (QREX)was founded by GeorgeWoodsmith, founder of Standard Equipment / Standard Tank Car Co, theworld\'s largest producer of railroad tank cars before & afterWW1. As of 1927, Quaker City owned 6500 cars of which 2500 werereefers. General American bought out both QREX and Union RefrigeratorTransit Co (URTC), so a number of Quaker City\'s 40-foot reefers werebuilt by URTC. Both GARE and URTC used all-metal \"fish-belly\"underframes with their wood reefers, which had wood sides, ends androofs painted Tuscan brownish-red. Quaker City and General Americanpainted as many billboard reefers for their customers as possiblebetween February and July of 1934, when billboard reefers wereoutlawed by the FDR administration but previously painted cars wereallowed to remain in service as is.

TheRed Ball company of Oregon supplied HO traincar kits 1939-1959 usingcar sides printed on balsawood so the modeler would not have to messwith decals or dry transfers. Strombecker was another HO producer ofthe period, using cardstock printed car sides assembled onto simplewood kits. Simply cut balsa or basswood to the size of the ends andthen glue on the printed cardstock sides. A one-sheet of theirinstructions will be included with your purchase, or you could justglue them to the sides of an existing 40\' boxcar with Elmer\'s glue.Strombecker suggested putting a 3rd piece of wood in the center tokeep the sides from bowing, while Red Ball used solid wood sides. ForN or Z scale, NMRA suggests simply cutting an entire piece of balsawood to the size of a boxcar including the sloped roof.

Orbuy old boxcars on and glue these sides onto thesides, or even build your own boxcars and glue them to boxcar framesthat come up for sale from time to time on with trucks andcouplersalready attached. Ordinary Elmer white glue or Testorswood cement should work just fine and give you plenty of time toposition each side just right, these are not stickers. You could evenbuy plastic boxcar or reefer doors from another vender and gluethem to the center for more of a 3-d look, and/or attach metal-typescale ladders to the side

This would fit right in with any steam or diesel-era layout. If you don\'t like it, send them back for a full refund

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