Normal Price : ¥ 4,400 JPY

¥ 3,740 JPY

Item Code： MicroAce A3168

Package volume : 400

ItemNumber A3168
JNR Reki 1 Large Refrigerator Type (1950)
2Cars Set

information
After the end of the Pacific War, there was a call for the promotion of fishing to improve the food situation, and freight transport between fishing ports and large cities was strengthened. In Japan, the standard refrigerated car was a two-axle car with a loading capacity of about 12 tons, but in 1948, 250 Reki 1 cars were manufactured at once based on the instructions of GHQ. The Reki 1, which was a large 25-ton capacity car with a bogie-type body that distinguished it from the conventional cars, had separate front and rear cargo compartments, and loading doors were installed on both the left and right sides. However, it did not fit the commercial practice of Japanese seafood distribution, which was centered on transportation in single car units called car handling, and it soon began to be used for other purposes such as as a substitute for baggage cars, and eventually disappeared by 1966 when it was remodeled and incorporated into the Waki ​​1 type. The product is in its heyday in the 1950s, when it was used to transport fresh fish mixed in with ordinary two-axle refrigerated cars, and its activities can still be remembered in documentary films produced by Japanese National Railways.