The Freight Yard - 9712D - Trailer, 45 Foot, Pines - Robbins Bros. Circus - 60

Model Information: Pines 45 Foot Semi Box Trailer.

Prototype History: Pines Trailer produced a variety of semi box trailers. During the 1960s the 45 foot dry model was quite popular and many are still in service today.

Road Name History: Owned by Fred Buchanan, the Robbins Bros. Circus was a show which operated in the 1920s and 1930s. The circus wintered in Granger, Iowa and and toured mostly in mid-western United States.
The Robbins Bros. advertised as having the "Earth's Largest Menagerie" and "Bingo the World's Largest Elephant".

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).