Beer, Rum, Wine & Ale boxcars 24 car set, TT scale printed reefer sides

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Beer, Rum, Wine, Birch Beer & Ale boxcars, scale printed 40' reefer sides. Twenty-four different pairs of boxcar reefer sides printed on 48 cardstock sides full color, a pair of each in reefer yellow to make 24 different boxcar reefers from the billboard reefer era with a Tuscan brown fascia line across the top. 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 24 different Quaker City Refrigerator Express
reefer sides 10 inch long printed on 48 cardstock sides full color, a pair of each in reefer yellow to make 24 different
reefers, t
hey are:
#1200 "Old Craft Brew" Menominee - Marinette Brewing Co, Menominee, Wisconsin
#1201 "Old Berlin" Hop Flavored Malt Syrup "Contains No Starch Digestive Value"
#1202 "Jack Daniel Old No. 7" W.T. & C.D. Gunter, Nashville TENN. Right of the door it says "MELLOWED drop by drop through sugar maple charcoal" and "AWARDED 7 Gold Medals since 1904
#1203 "STAR WINE" the logo shows a vineyard with Jewish star superimposed. Fredonia Products Co, Inc, Fredonia, N.Y.
#1204 "MADERA California Muscatel" Madera Wineries & Distilleries
#1205 "ROYAL DUTCH MALT SYRUP, Hop Flavored"
#1206 "Chapin's Pure Old RUM" The American Medicinal Spirits Co
#1207 "RED CAP Ale" Carling Brewing & Malting Co., Ontario. Founded 1840
#1208 "GOLDEN DAY'S STRAIGHT WHISKEY" with image of calendar pages on their logo
#1209 "SCOTCH ALE" Inverness Brand
#1210 "Royal Knight imported DISTILLED DRY GIN" The American Medicinal Spirits Co
#1211 "BALLANTINE'S India Pale Ale" with image of man holding bottle between his legs and pulling the cork
#1212 "WALNUT HILL
Rye Whiskey
" The American 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.
#1300 "Lasko Brewed Birch Beer" (race horses logo) Lasko & Son, Boundrook, N.J.
#1301 "Alpen Glow" Pale Dry Ginger Ale, General Enterprise Co, San Francisco, Calif.
#1302 "BLACK HAWK Club Soda" Black Hawk Distributors, San Francisco, Oakland, Calif.
#1303 "Thorndike" Pale Dry Ginger Ale, Thorndike Springs Co, Thorndike, MASS
#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
The 1st two cars do not mention beer, indicating that they were from the Prohibition era when breweries were not allowed to sell alcoholic products, but could sell such things as Malt Syrup so that you could make your own, which was legal as long as it was for your own use. Schlitz and the other breweries had to do the same thing with their boxcar reefers, and the same day Prohibition ended, they began adding the word "beer" to their cars advertising Malt Syrup.
The second logo was probably during Prohibition, when beer products had to be merely hinted at by mentioning malt and hops.
. The Jack Daniel car uses a name and Nashville address I'm not familiar with, apparently the company moved its headquarters to Nashville for a period of time before moving back to its original Lynchburg address. Star Wine could have rode out the Prohibition period without changing their logo as wine was still allowed to be made and sold for religious purposes during that decade.
Carling is Canada’s major brewery. During
the Prohibition era, Ginger Ale and non-alcoholic products such as Root Beer became quite popular.
Black Haw
k products were taken over by another distributor, who still makes products under that name.
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.
The Red Ball company of Oregon supplied 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 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 old boxcars on Ebay 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 Ebay with trucks and couplers already attached. Ordinary Elmer white glue or Testors 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 Ebay 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.
Note: shipping is about the same rate for US, Canada and world-wide!