Micro-Trains 05900290 N Scale American Refrigerator Transit 40' Reefer #91553

Micro-Trains N scale 40-foot steel ice refrigerator car lettered for the American Refrigerator Transit Company, reporting marks BUDX, road number 91553 - an orange car with black lettering carrying both the Missouri Pacific Lines and N&W heralds.

• 40 foot steel ice reefer with roof hatches - not a wood-sheathed car and not a mechanical reefer
• Bettendorf-type solid bearing trucks
• Micro-Trains Magne-Matic knuckle couplers
• Built in 1958 by American Car & Foundry
• Modified in 1965 to carry beer for the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company
• One of only 50 cars in the 91400-91699 series to receive that conversion
• Released October 2025
• Made in the USA in Talent, Oregon

The reporting mark BUDX belongs to the Anheuser-Busch car subsidiary, which is why the car reads as a beer car - but the owner of record, and the name across the side, is American Refrigerator Transit. Founded in 1881 and based in St. Louis, ART was jointly owned by the Missouri Pacific and the Wabash and is today a Union Pacific subsidiary. Beer moved in ice-bunker reefers in this era because refrigeration protected it from freezing in winter as much as from heat in summer.