Beer Cars

I have what is perhaps the original beer car and a vintage beer can to finish if I ever get around to building it.  Walthers listed these in their O scale catalog for many years.  The can came out of a 1947 house remodel I worked on.  It was found inside the voids of a block wall. 

Desert Division did a run of these 50' reefers a few years back for A-1 beer.

One of my favorites is another Arizona former beer done by Desert Division.  There was a second design done that I have as well but have not photographed.

@Just Havin' Fun posted:

Please post any other beer-related cars any of you guys might have.

There are a lot of beer cars to see in this thread.

As you can see, someone took a lot of effort to mount KD couplers on this car; check out the milling:

I also have a matching Berghoff wood-sided reefer (not photographed).

@GG1 4877 posted:

I have what is perhaps the original beer car and a vintage beer can to finish if I ever get around to building it.  Walthers listed these in their O scale catalog for many years.  The can came out of a 1947 house remodel I worked on.  It was found inside the voids of a block wall.

I have one of those kits somewhere. My thoughts on assembly leaned towards a piece of copper pipe with pipe caps for the end; nothing ever came of the project. If I were to do it today, I would (probably) use a pre-made tanker body and install the Walthers kit parts.

Here are some brew cars from my fleet of 14.

WOW! What a great thread. It's fun to see all the different beer cars made over the years; many I'd never heard of because they're regional. Keep 'em coming.

Tom

@Just Havin' Fun posted:

The two cars I have were purchased NIB from a forum member some time ago. They're made by "O Line Reproductions" and are consecutively numbered Walters Beer cars. They're semi-scale, which is what my layout will have. I just love the colors and the script in which Walters is seen on the sides. To me, this is one of the more attractive beer cars. Walters also had a smaller brewery in Pueblo, CO, where we lived for about ten years back in the 1990s-early 2000s.

Note that RMT (Ready Made Trains) is also coming out with a Walters Beer reefer, so you may want to check that out.

@GG1 4877 posted:

I have what is perhaps the original beer car and a vintage beer can to finish if I ever get around to building it.  Walthers listed these in their O scale catalog for many years.  The can came out of a 1947 house remodel I worked on.  It was found inside the voids of a block wall.

I have one of these tank car kits as well, also still unbuilt. If you haven't checked out the decals that come with it, they're pretty funny.

I have several beer cars. A friend had picked up an unopened uncataloged Budweiser set at York 20 years ago. He offered it to me. I don’t exactly remember what the consist was because I had a few Anhueser Bush cars already. I  only ran it a coupe of moments back then.

My favorites (because of my passion for trains and for baseball and ball parks in the 1950s and 1960s) that had commercials and billboard ads for these beers:

Here's an atlas 40' reefer. Really like these cars. Nicely detailed.

Altoona Brewing Company brewed "Horseshoe Curve Beer" up until the early 1970s.  My layout is set in the Western PA area, and in 1950.  So... I have an Altoona Brewery (MTH Granary), with a Horseshoe Curve "water" tower (Plasticville water tower base and roof- Horseshoe Curve beer can).  The cars are MTH and RMT. 

A beer can is 4.8" tall X 2.6" in diameter holding 12 oz. (assuming 100% fill). 

Anybody want to calculate how many gallons in1:48 scale? 

Here's the link to Arnold Cribari's BEER HERE! thread.  https://ogrforum.com/...c/159519380355410331

obxtrainman, this set also included a red SP style caboose.

Here's a small sampling of mine.  These are all I have pictures of at this time.  They've been posted in other threads before.

Custom painted Lionel boxcars

Some of Weaver's handiwork

Lionel

K-Line

Weaver, made these cars for us

THREE beer cars threads going on right now.  Too bad since I don't like posting the same images multiple places

walt

Walt, when it comes to beer, more is more right? Cheers!!