Billboard and Beer Train Cars

Billboard cars are a blast to collect because there are so many types available. What is meant by Billboard car is that the side of the car is basically a big advertisement.

The advertisement is either for what it is carrying or a paid space by a company.
In the steam ere they painted the sides of the wood box cars and Reefers. You may have already seen many of the Swift's.

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In HO scale Tyco came out with quite a few in the 70's of foods, candy , pet foods and more. In O scale Lionel also came out with candy and food billboard cars.

People and companies don't always list these cars with the word "billboard" in it, and so you must look up the product or thing you are looking for with train car, such as - Superman train car.

Search words to also use:

• Reefer
• ice car
• advertising car
• Tyco car
• Bachmann
• K-line Mantua
• steel box car
• box car
• billboard reefer box car
• covered hopper
• Tank car
• train car
• Limited edition tyco
• limited train car

I have seen some Tootsie Roll tank cars, Hershey's, Oreo, Jell-O, Baby Ruth, C n H sugar, Canadian Dry and more sweet billboard cars.

Under limited train car, I found circus cars, Monopoly, and whole sets of train decorated in sports teams logos and colors. So check for your favorite spots team, such as searching - Seahawks train

Here's some to search for.

There have been many billboard beer cars made. Those are a fun thing to collect and display. I have seen huge collections of them.

Search any beer you can think of, and old ones that don't exist anymore such as Olympia or Hamms.

Most scales should have beer cars. There is also wood and metal kits where the sides are painted but you need to put the whole car together.

Search For Beer cars in these companies also:

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• Athearn
• Tyco
• Bachmann
• Mantua
• Varney
• Marx
• Lionel
• K-line
• LGB
• Kato
• Walthers
• AHM
• ROCO

Also Search Ale, Brewery and lager

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O 36' Wood Reefer, Tadcaster

O 40' Reefer, Columbia Pale

Sometimes a matching truck can be found.

Graffiti

Other than loading your fill-able train car, it can also be made to look weathered, and with some graffiti, just like you would see in real life.

When I have worked down by the tracks, many cars in a row would go by with amazing graffiti. Also most of the cars have dirt, rust and dents. There's a couple of super old gondolas down by the vet. Their sides are bowed with dents from their heavy load of metal or rock.

Maisto Enamalized Graffiti Diecast Train Car

The dirt on your train car would reflect what it carries. If it carries coal, then black drips down the sides, and some dirt and rust around the wheels. Most train wheels and lower carriages are rusty and/or oily, except where the wheel meets the rail.

Below you can find decals of Graffiti, or go here to have it done for you. Also you can go here to learn some weathering.