Northeastern Model Reefer ~ UNION PACIFIC OVERLAND ROUTE ~ Rd# 26181 - RARE

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada, One of the finest Union Pacific passenger trains was the OVERLAND LIMITED that travelled the route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad / Southern Pacific Railroad, between Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco, California, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad. This luxury train, inaugurated in 1890, made the run between Omaha and San Francisco in just 71 hours. In 1921, passenger revenues reached an all-time high. However, as the Twenties progressed and the automobile gradually came to be viewed as a necessity rather than a luxury, Union Pacific decided to take some drastic steps to bring ridership back to the rails ventilated reefer cars were part of the trains consist.In the 1930s the introduction of the lightweight Streamliner passenger trains set a new standard for luxurious train travel. The equipment today is a remnant of those lightweight passenger trains that began operation in 1934 with Union Pacific's City of Salina. The Streamliners' opulent furnishings, impeccable service and total comfort combined to lure customers back to rail. Air conditioning, reduced noise, and a better ride distinguished these trains from the conventional steam-powered models. Over the next seven years, nine more streamliner sets were added to the passenger fleet.Still, it wasn't possible to maintain daily streamliner service between Chicago and the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland areas until 1947. To offer daily service between three west coast points and Denver, in addition to the other daily trains already operating, involved a tremendous outlay of equipment and personnel.The name harkens back to the Central Overland Route a Stagecoach Line operated by the Overland Mail Company between Salt Lake City, Utah And Virginia City, Nevada from 1861 to 1866, when Wells Fargo took over the stagecoach's operation. Wells Fargo ended this stagecoach service three years later. While the Council Bluffs/Omaha to San Francisco "Pacific Railroad" grade was opened in 1869, the name “Overland” was not formally adopted for any daily extra-fare train over the route until almost two decades later when the Union Pacific inaugurated service of its OVERLAND FLYER on November 13, 1887, between Omaha and Ogden, Utah where passengers and through cars were transferred to the Southern Pacific which had acquired the CPRR's operations on that line in 1885 under a 99-year lease. The UP changed its designation to the Overland Limited on November 17, 1895, and service continued as a daily train under that name in one form or another for almost seven decadesTo see all our listings, visit: Ika's Train Store Pacific Fruit Express was founded on December 7, 1906 as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. It began operation on October 1, 1907, with a fleet of 6,600 refrigerator cars built by the American Car and Foundry Company. In 1923, the Western Pacific Railroad joined the venture by leasing its own new fleet of 2775 reefers to PFE. They were painted in standard PFE colors with only WP heralds on the cars instead of the paired UP-SP markings. The WP cars were all retired by the late 1950s, among the last wooden reefers in PFE's fleet. WP ended its partnership with PFE in late 1967 and joined Fruit Growers Express instead. PFE's assets were divided between the UP and SP when the company was split on April 1, 1978. It is now a UP subsidiary. **After World War Two, model railroading became an entertaining pastime for youngsters and adults alike. For the Ambroid Company, model railroading became a survival tactic. During the war years, sales of Ambroid’s signature adhesive repair cement had stalled, and they were having trouble “getting their groove back.” Ambroid cement was conceived in 1910 as a repair product for canvas canoes, but by Mid-Century the world had changed. There had been two World Wars and an influenza epidemic. Demographics were shifting across the continent. By 1950, U.S. factories were operating at full capacity, meeting the world’s need for tools, machinery, and consumer goods. Urban populations grew along with the job market. Housing shifted from rural homes to city apartments. Northeastern provided Ambroid with branded kits, and Ambroid handled marketing and distribution. Early wood kits were affectionately called “boxes of sticks” because that’s just what they were: milled strips of wood. Northeastern kits didn’t use modern plastic-injection molding. Instead, their parts were inexpensively mass-produced by stamping and printing basswood, cardboard, and, in some cases, tin. Wooden car sides were pre-grooved, windows cut, and roofs shaped. If the design required it, details such as window frames and vents were added during manufacturing. Usually, metal or plastic carriages and wheels came with a kit, but not couplers. Ambroid kits are predominantly constructed from wood.Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4 business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our International customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 49.05 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-10-24T20:06:52.000Z

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