01-24-2015, 12:54 PM
The "Big" Tropicana train does not. These trains go straight to their plant in Kearny, NJ. (In fact, I just passed by it a week ago!). To quote the May 1995 RMC Article on the subject...
"While the US Department of Agriculture reveals that the average American drinks approximately 5 gallons of Orange Juice a year, the typical Northeasterner actually consumes about 12 gallons in that same time period. Now thats a lot of Juice, so much in fact that it takes Five ships holding an average of 2.1 million gallons of concentrate (and with the usual round trip time of a month to a month in a half) and three weekly juice trains from Florida to take care of the orange juice thirst in the northeastern corner of the US"
As you can see, Orange juice is a serious commodity on the Northeast.
That said...
Tropicana does have a few leased double-plug door insulated boxcars that also depart from Florida in other trains, that DO ship orange juice in smaller shipments. These cars are big dark green cars with USLX reporting marks.
These still have some of the Tropicana markings on them, but they don't look quite as fancy as the unit-train cars do. Details West offered this as a kit a while ago (Part # 504), but my understanding is that these were difficult to come by.
Infact, you have a chance on Ebay right now- <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/DETAILS-WEST-BC-504-50-DOUBLE-PLUG-DOOR-BOXCAR-TROPICANA-13079-/400827014345?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5d5326dcc9">http://www.ebay.com/itm/DETAILS-WEST-BC ... 5d5326dcc9</a><!-- m -->
"While the US Department of Agriculture reveals that the average American drinks approximately 5 gallons of Orange Juice a year, the typical Northeasterner actually consumes about 12 gallons in that same time period. Now thats a lot of Juice, so much in fact that it takes Five ships holding an average of 2.1 million gallons of concentrate (and with the usual round trip time of a month to a month in a half) and three weekly juice trains from Florida to take care of the orange juice thirst in the northeastern corner of the US"
As you can see, Orange juice is a serious commodity on the Northeast.
That said...
Tropicana does have a few leased double-plug door insulated boxcars that also depart from Florida in other trains, that DO ship orange juice in smaller shipments. These cars are big dark green cars with USLX reporting marks.
These still have some of the Tropicana markings on them, but they don't look quite as fancy as the unit-train cars do. Details West offered this as a kit a while ago (Part # 504), but my understanding is that these were difficult to come by.
Infact, you have a chance on Ebay right now- <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/DETAILS-WEST-BC-504-50-DOUBLE-PLUG-DOOR-BOXCAR-TROPICANA-13079-/400827014345?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5d5326dcc9">http://www.ebay.com/itm/DETAILS-WEST-BC ... 5d5326dcc9</a><!-- m -->
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.
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