Now that’s a great picture
Some Varney stuff I built when I was 12. I sure did get carried away with weathering back in 1952. Peter Smith, Memphis 
Now that the book is out, perhaps more kits will be forthcoming. I really got a kick out of the fact that the sides didn’t necessarily match.
I recently got back into model railroading for the first time in about 12 years as my wife got me a train set for cristmas and I have been hooked. I have been buying everything under the sun I am thinking about a second mortage on my house to get more ok just kidding I’m not that bad. I really enjoy the modern diesel era especially intermodal. I have 9 intermodal cars and always looking for deals on more. have another 6 jindo containers headed myway on a UPS truck scheduled to arrive Monday, can’t wait. I have AC4400 and Intermodalitis. Will Amoxicilin cure that?
No! You are already administering the correct medicine. Buy more stuff!
Tom
Cool picture, I have a couple of the reefers with the large letters spelling out SWIFT. I have about 30 Santa Fe Map reefers for my Genesis F units to pull and around 30 others. Whatever you do, if you have this afliction, do not go to the Greenway Products website. I’d like to have about 90% of what they have. Also, do not go to google image search and type in billboard reefer… unless you have some time to kill.
I have a bunch of them, some built, many still nib, many are Athearn Blue Box kits.
I love these reeferes, addicted like the rest of you!
Is there any known cure for “Too Many Itis?”
TheK4Kid
Yes! See my answer above.
Tom
Ok, Guys…for you true believers in Billboard Reefers…check THIS out!!!
http://www.greatdecals.com/Griffin.htm
There are more great BB Reefer decals here than anyone could ever build in a lifetime!
Roger
I think it’s called “woodenreeferitis” and I’ve had it for quite some time. But mine is compounded by owning an ALPS printer. This means that you are not only affected by the normal form of this disease but rather… you actually create the artwork for your own wooden reefers.
This has some dire consequences… In the past, I have…
o bought a grocery store product based solely on its label and that label’s adaptability to a wooden reefer design. This actually happened twice; in one case we used the ketchup but in the other case… well, we really didn’t like it after we tried it.
o annoyed friends because I created a brand of beer in their honor and put that on a wooden reefer.
o bought a “bulk quantity” of painted but unlettered wooden reefers to try to curb my seemingly insatiable appetite for them. Please don’t ask how many…
o dug through trash to save labels suitable for reefer material.
A related form of the disease has you creating wooden boxcars from that era as well… yep, been there & done that too.
I’m not sure that there is a cure for it… so as a great marketer once said, “if you get a lemon, sell lemonade!”
dlm
Whew’ nice to know I’m not alone on this subject,though my Billboard addiction runs mainly to beer or booze cars .
I’m sure I’m not alone on this fetish so will let you in on a secret Greenway products has a very nice selection though a bit pricey!! Here’s a string of mine behind my Great Northern Q1 2-10-2.
My sctick is not billboard reefers, but billboard anything. I love the commemorative/little known roadnames and designs. I just got a full set of Lima Locomotive Works demo train cars made by Roundhouse. This also includes cars produced like Oscar/Piker. Not a fatal addiction to anything, just pricey. Easily workable into a model railroad if you, say create an industry selling ad space on cars. They do it for box trucks, why not boxcars? Can you see a Burma Shave tanker?
And it’s only too much if you run out of room.
Yeah, me too. Once you realize how much fun you can have with decals, well, you can kind of get hooked on doing that, too. The top model is at least 50 years old. The Harvard and Mule models are from Greenway products, and the McRoberts Fine Haggis reefer is one I did myself based on the decal set from Fritz Milhaupt.
The Strumpet Brewery on my layout has taken on a life of its own. I designed my own logos and graphics for this completely fictitious product. There’s a building, too. The brewery’s motto is “Nothing goes down like a Strumpet.”
