Celebrating Smokey Bear's 60th Anniversary	Road # SBX 1944
40' Standard Box Car, Plug Door
Part #MTL-21480 N Scale Supply Price: New: August 2004 Both regular and low-profile wheels are included

This black 40’ standard box car with plug door and tan sides celebrates Smokey Bear’s 60th Anniversary with a Smokey Bear herald and colorful poster art and rides on black Bettendorf trucks. On August 9, 1944, the first poster of Smokey Bear was prepared. The poster depicted a bear pouring a bucket of water on a campfire. Smokey Bear soon became popular, and his image began appearing on other posters and cards. Years later, in 1950, an orphaned black bear cub was found in the blackened remains of a forest fire in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. After being nursed back to health, the State Game Warden wrote an official letter to the Chief of the Forest Service, presenting the cub to the agency with the understanding that the small bear would be dedicated to a publicity program of fire prevention and conservation. The go-ahead was given to send the bear to Washington, DC, where he found a home at the National Zoo, becoming the living symbol of Smokey Bear.

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