MTH Premier 20-94466 Bangor & Aroostook Reefer #2521

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.

Like the standardization of reefer livery, the cars too changed to reflect improvements in refrigeration, forgoing the use of ice with refrigerator compressors as on this 40? Modern Reefer.

Features:

• O-Gauge, O-Scale
• Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
• Operating Die-Cast Sprung Metal Couplers
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
• Opening Doors
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
• Needle-Point Axles
• 1:48 Scale Dimensions
• Unit Measures: 11 5/8? x 2 3/4? x 3 9/16?
• Operates On O-31 Curves