I bought 23 of them before I got myself under control
All but 4 of them names of products I remember from growing up I have them posted on my freight car page
ME&O Freight
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
I have some MDC/Roundhouse kits I recently purchased from from River City Railroad but not as detailed as yours. You have a nice collection.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
Very nice web page.
Most of my reefers are beer cars I've got a couple of Swift cars, and I decorated one for McRoberts Haggis, using the decal sheet from Fritz Milhaupt.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Some time last year, a video was posted by a group that had an O scale layout with 100 beer cars in a train. All the same brand.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
UncBob Anybody else get carried away with Billboard Reefers
No. I have more of a weakness for 6-panel wood boxcars and gondolas.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
G Paine Some time last year, a video was posted by a group that had an O scale layout with 100 beer cars in a train. All the same brand.
"All the same brand"
Hope they had a lot of members buying
I have a dozen or so. All of which are outlawed on my 50's layout, but I run them anyway.
Enjoy
Paul
Many years ago, I too went on quite a "buying spree" w/ these. Couldn't get enough. Well at least my addiction wasn't that costly : would hunt down any of those MDC/Roundhouse kits at any LHS I'd find. Back 15-20 years ago they were $3.75 to $4.25, prices are still on the boxes. Really like the old diecast chassis. Don't do much w/ them any more. Hardly a place in a Chessie consist for them.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
UncBob I bought 23 of them before I got myself under control All but 4 of them names of products I remember from growing up I have them posted on my freight car page ME&O Freight
23 before you got yourself under control? What did you do join the AAA of model railroad freight cars Where do you go ? I have a similiar problem with steam locomatives. My wife has threatened my life. I have been clean for six months . The withdrawals are terrible !
And they always argue reefer isn't addicting. I guess they never met a model railroader.(Sorry, couldn't resist) I always thought the open roof hatches on the Athearn cars made them look cool.
Gary B
Fox River Valley Railroad
I have about 25 of the Train Miniature brand of 40' billboard beer cars which have great graphics for the day, just picked up 3 more at our lastest swapmeet.....alway's on the lookout for more.
My wife is still hooked on reefers. They have to look good, and with rare exception, must be different but yeah, between reefers and Pfualder milk cars I have enough to run a 40 car reefer train with almost no issues.
At last count I had amassed 211 various reefers, 182 of which are PFE specific with the remaining examples being SFRD & FGE plus a ifew ndependent operators and a couple of On30 conversions assigned to company ice service for the SP. Although I model the era of the Billboard reefer I have elected to not model those at the present time.
Ok, how many SP B-50 boxcars will I need to handle lumber and general cargo?
Dave
The below fellow has decals for billboard refers.. 1880's to 1930's.
http://www.greatdecals.com/Griffin.htm
Might work nice on the River City Railroad undecorated rolling stock.
My wife really likes watching a train of all Billboards
I do too but my fav is a train of black coal hoppers
My first one arrived yesterday. It was purchased on eBay. It advertises Yuengling & Old German Beer. My first sample of alcohol was an Old German so this car will be special.
After reading this thread my first thought was that there were more I could have bought. Having a chance to rethink I don't want to get carried away so I'll wait a while for the second.
I've made resolutions like this before and they only lasted until I saw something I just had to have. lol
Happy Railroading
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
superbe My first one arrived yesterday. It was purchased on eBay. It advertises Yuengling & Old German Beer. My first sample of alcohol was an Old German so this car will be special. After reading this thread my first thought was that there were more I could have bought. Having a chance to rethink I don't want to get carried away so I'll wait a while for the second. I've made resolutions like this before and they only lasted until I saw something I just had to have. lol Happy Railroading Bob
There are a lot of Beer cars available on Ebay but I wasn't a big fan of beer cars- I have one a Budweiser
I have Reefer Madness real, real bad. I have a string of 32 orange Santa Fe Athearn blue box reefers for my ABA Athearn Genesis F consist to pull. I also have about 60-70 others from Branchline, Athearn, Train Miniature, Roundhouse, Greenway Products etc. I think it is related to my interest in antique advertising material.
Rolling on floor, laughing...
Beyond just reefer's by Red Caboose, Branchline, Atlas, and Intermountain, I'm hooked on the fantasy "orange crate" type. Originally produced by Show-Me Hobbies, now done by Yesteryear and the like.
http://www.yesteryearmodels.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=YM&Category_Code=YYreeferho