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 Posted - November 12 2020 : 5:44:54 PM
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I thought billboard cars were a nogo?
https://youtu.be/yfLNz9G27sM?t=268
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 7:13:13 PM
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| naah that rule of "no bilboard/Ad cars" has been null & void for a long time!
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 7:38:58 PM
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| To me that Tropicana isn't a good excuse for a billboard car.
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 9:49:18 PM
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"There's a prototype for everything."
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 10:22:04 PM
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From what a quick surf of the web told me, the no-billboard rule did not necessarily apply to shippers leasing cars that only they used. There would be great frustration if a car emblazoned with "Tropicana" in 3-foot letters showed up at a competitor's loading dock. If, on the other hand, the car only hauls Tropicana loads, no problem.
The rule still cuts into backhauling efficiencies. If you can only haul your own loads in billboard cars and you don't have loads to move both ways, the cars move empty half the time. Presumably, that doesn't put a crimp in Tropicana's style.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 11:28:17 PM
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Interesting.
The Tyco billboard phenomenon really hooked me good.what’s not to love
about a Planter’s Peanut hopper or an Old Spice? I think I read somewhere that
Tyco invented the lithograph process of these billboards. The question I
am left with, is did Life Like and Bachmann, and to a different degree, AHM
then jump on the band wagon?
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Posted - November 13 2020 : 6:57:09 PM
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quote:Interesting.
The Tyco billboard phenomenon really hooked me good.what’s not to love
about a Planter’s Peanut hopper or an Old Spice? I think I read somewhere that
Tyco invented the lithograph process of these billboards. The question I
am left with, is did Life Like and Bachmann, and to a different degree, AHM
then jump on the band wagon?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â November 12 2020Â :Â 11:28:17 PM
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Athern & Lionel did too
Lionel big time in O & HO scales
heck in the 1970-1986 General Mills era they were doing cigarette billboard cars in 027! 
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/lionelo271970srollingstockresource/id245.html
Tyco did only ONE chewing tobacco Mail Pouch Tobacco
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