{"id":738,"date":"2008-10-31T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:10:03","slug":"hoffmans-oo-freight-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman&#8217;s OO Freight Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hoffman&#8217;s was a pre-war manufacturer of OO gauge freight car kits in Philadelphia. Their kits included painted and lettered card sides, wood bodies, and cast details, including sprung Bettendorf trucks. The line included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Box car, RDG, DL&amp;W<br>Flat car, RDG<br>Gondola, RDG<br>Reefer, wood, MDT, ARLX, FGEX<br>Caboose, eight wheel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hoffmans-reefer.jpg?resize=388%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-832\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hoffmans-reefer.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hoffmans-reefer.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hoffmans-reefer.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These models are completely unique and not common at all. A reefer is above, and the first Hoffman&#8217;s advertisement from 1938 is below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: To see more on Hoffman&#8217;s please check my book on American OO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MR-Sept-38-Hoffman.jpg?resize=269%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" width=\"269\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MR-Sept-38-Hoffman.jpg?w=587&amp;ssl=1 587w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MR-Sept-38-Hoffman.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoffman&#8217;s was a pre-war manufacturer of OO gauge freight car kits in Philadelphia. Their kits included painted and lettered card sides, wood bodies, and cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoffmanns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/MR-Sept-38-Hoffman-crop.jpg?fit=575%2C356&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}