John23 from the Northern Michigan Railroad Club asked me to pass along these sneak peeks of this years club car offerings. I'm sure he'll jump in and give you the history behind the prototypes. I understand orders will be accepted in a few weeks.
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Looks like a winner.
Nice car
Are they Atlas?
They have been Weaver cars in the past. I expect these are too.
I will be getting my check book out for a pair to go with last years.
Dan
There will be only 50 cars made (by Weaver) for each brewery location, for a total of 100. Buffalo Creek Graphics did the layout, working off of the one photo we were able to find of the prototype, plus period advertising for the details. These were owned by the Copper Range RR.
The Bosch Brewery was located in the Copper Country region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was in operation from the late 19th century to 1973. The first location was in Lake Linden, then about 1914 they moved to Houghton.
Club members are ordering now, and it will be opened to public ordering next month. Our website hasn't been updated yet, hopefully in a week or two.
I remember Bosch beer, we sometimes drank it in college. The running joke was that "Bosch" was the noise you made after drinking a few of them. Or maybe more like "Bo-o-o-o-sch." As I recall, there were better local Michigan beers.
A beer whose logo would make a great Michigan club car would be Sebewaing, brewed in Sebewaing, Michigan, a very small town on the Saginaw Bay side of the Thumb. The label was quite attractive, featuring a pheasant. Unfortunately, the beer was truly awful. It was probably the second-worst beer I have ever tasted. (The worst was Camel Beer, brewed in Khartoum, Sudan.) However, Sebewaing was cheap, and college students will drink anything.
I was pretty fond of Bosch Beer, especially at 99 cents a 6 pack! Tasted good to me. I think the only beer I couldn't stomach back then was Buckhorn.
Sebewaing beer does have a neat label, however we only do cars that actually existed, and have a photo or artwork that we can work from. So far I have found only one other brand of beer with a real car from Northern Michigan, and that one's graphics are too complex to do at a reasonable price. Still looking for others that we could do.
Guess I'm going have to get these two beer cars to my Northern Michigan string.
Beautiful car Charlie!
Alan
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g.../lightbox/1861491625
Nice looking car!
Above is a link to photos of a Weaver wood side reefer another forum I belong to did several years ago. We too do a car that existed. My son took the pics using the Lion Brewery of Wilkes Barre Pa. in the background to lend some authenticity, even if it's not the actual brewery in Colorado. The logo photo is a commemorative plate that we wanted to use on the car side, but not knowing about vector graphics at the time, we couldn't give Weaver a high enough resolution image to copy. We have since rectified that.
Don
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g.../lightbox/1861491625
Nice looking car!
Above is a link to photos of a Weaver wood side reefer another forum I belong to did several years ago. We too do a car that existed. My son took the pics using the Lion Brewery of Wilkes Barre Pa. in the background to lend some authenticity, even if it's not the actual brewery in Colorado. The logo photo is a commemorative plate that we wanted to use on the car side, but not knowing about vector graphics at the time, we couldn't give Weaver a high enough resolution image to copy. We have since rectified that.
Don
I didn't realize the link wouldn't open. Unfortunately, I can't copy the image, only the link. I don't have the original pics, as my son used a friend's camera. I can take a pic of the car and post it though.
Don
If you are talking about the Weaver Century Beer car, I think I have one and I know I have an Atlas car with the same design. Nice car.
good looking.
BTW Paul, the Copper Range interchanged with the Milwaukee Road.
I was only collecting Atlas beer cars for four states, including the Century cited above,
but a visit to the UP not too long ago means I am in for these two cars. I am glad
the club sticks strictly to cars that actually existed. Many small brewers, probably
including Sebewaing, had no logoed cars.
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