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#FT-9208 Clicquot Club
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• Rebuilt 34' Woodside Reefers
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$58.00 retail ea. • $58.00
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Set #1: Road #NYDX 15032, #NYDX 15037 • July 2023
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• Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks
• Blackened Metal wheels
• Knuckle Couplers
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The Clicquot Club Company ("Kleek-O"), founded in Mass., ca: 1881 by Henry Millis was one of the largest national beverage companies. After purchasing the Lacroix Fruit Farms, Henry named his sparkling cider "Clicquot" after a famous French champagne but soon began producing a variety of sodas, including Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Cream, Raspberry and Grape. He imported high-quality exotic ingredients, the cost of which finally forced him to sell out to Kimball and Son in 1901, who expanded the factory, covering 1/3 of a mile long with it's own train station! They were the first to put a metal cap on a bottle, sell by quarts, and in 1938, sell sodas in cans. The company had dozens of factories across the USA and distributed internationally. It was purchased in 1969 by Cott Beverage Corp. of Connecticut and eventually dissolved.
At the turn of the 19th Century, during America's Industrial Revolution, Railroads refurbished many of their well-built older wood-side cars for more modern use employing steel underframes, Bettendorf trucks, and new brake systems.
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