The Freight Yard - 2413A - Container, 40 Foot, Smoothside, Reefer - China Shipping - 2-Pack - set #1

Specific Item Information: Dolphin logo
Road numbers: 853784 1, 853783 4

Prototype History: The 40 foot container is the king of the container business. It is the most common standard container size used for international and domestic shipping. Most intermodal operations that handle overseas shipping are optimized for this container size. These containers are typically reinforced for loading, unloading and transportation by ship.

Refrigerated containers are meant for transportation of perishable goods and contain built-in refrigeration units.

Road Name History: China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), established in 1997, provided fully containerized marine and intermodal freight transport, storage, and electronic data interchange services worldwide. It merged with its larger government-owned compatriot, the COSCO Group in October 2015. The new company formed by the integration of China Shipping and COSCO; now known as China COSCO Shipping,

Read more on Wikipedia.

Brand/Importer Information: The Freight Yard was a hobby shop that did custom decoration and special runs of other manufacturers' N Scale products. It sold its custom products under several brands or collections: Premiere Editions, by The Freight Yard and Dreams Design.
It was located in Anaheim, California and then moved to 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Established in the late 1980s, it stopped business under this name by the end of the 2000s.
The Freight Yard was owned and operated by Darren J. Cohen. Darren is now operating North Valley Trains.
The Freight Yard / Premiere Editions runs are usually available in series of two to twelve different numbers (suffixed A to M, with I not used).
The first two digits of the stock number correspond to the release year (9x being 199x, and 2x being 200x).