INTERMOUNTAIN
HO SCALE
READY-TO-RUN
The Intermountain units are highly detailed
This is aa ICE BUNKER REEFER CAR
Lettered for:
NATIONAL PACKING Co
"NATIONAL PACKING USA MAP" Lettering
R-40-23 Refrigerator Cars
-All are Ready-to-Run
-Laser Sharp Painting and Printing
-Etched Metal Roofwalks
-33" InterMountain Precision Metal Wheelsets
-Metal Knuckle Couplers
*Minimum Radius - 18"
Refrigerated cars
A number of attempts were made during the mid-19th century to ship agricultural products via rail car. In 1857, the first consignment of dressed beef was carried in ordinary boxcars retrofitted with bins filled with ice. Detroit's William Davis patented a refrigerator car that employed metal racks to suspend the carcasses above a frozen mixture of ice and salt. He sold the design in 1868 to George Hammond, a Chicago meatpacker, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston.
In 1878, meat packer Gustavus Swift hired engineer Andrew Chase to design a ventilated car, one that proved to be a practical solution to providing temperature-controlled carriage of dressed meats and allowed Swift & Company to ship their products all over the United States, and even internationally. The refrigerator car radically altered the meat business. Swift's attempts to sell Chase's design to the major railroads were unanimously rebuffed, as the companies feared that they would jeopardize their considerable investments in stock cars, animal pens, and feedlots if refrigerated meat transport gained wide acceptance.
In response, Swift financed the initial production run on his own, then—when the American railroads refused his business—he contracted with the Grand Trunk Railway (who derived little income from transporting live cattle) to haul the cars into Michigan and then eastward through Canada. In 1880 the Peninsular Car Company (subsequently purchased by ACF) delivered to Swift the first of these units, and the Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL) was created. Within a year the Line's roster had risen to nearly 200 units, and Swift was transporting an average of 3,000 carcasses a week to Boston. Competing firms such as Armour and Company quickly followed suit.
* Intermountain Railway
* HO Scale
* Features:
* Sharp Painting and Lettering
* Etched Metal Roofwalks
* SEE - THRU Walkways
* Metal Grab Railings
* Metal Grab Irons
* Metal Cut Levers
* Metal Knuckle Couplers
* 33" InterMountain Metal Wheelsets
* Minimum Radius - 18"
exterior details include:
# Etched Metal Roofwalk
# See-Thru Metal walkways
# Grab Irons
# Ladders
# Brake Gear
# Piping
# Doors
# Underframe
# Underframe Details
* New in box
* Ready to run
" These have been highly sought after Models "
We do combine shipping on
multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It
Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately.
What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then
when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items
for you.
If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because
ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can
work something out for you.
THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item
The item is NEW in the original box from old stock
PERSONAL INVENTORY:
Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory
which was accumulated over the years.
They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too
are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them.
STORE INVENTORY:
Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid
“Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country,
Down to Sunny TEXAS.
I will be Liquidating the remaining stock.
I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing
them out.
Please see the photos we take actual photos of each item
Most of these items are New in the box removed only to take
photos of them.