Last chance for Bosch Beer cars

Ta-da. Hope you don't mind my posting the pictures for you. Our Labrador Retriever is named Bosch. If for no other reason, I'm going to have at least one. 

Gilly

I am sending in my order for one, with the "Houghton" car preferred.

I've attached the order form here.

Thanks Gilly for getting the pics posted!

Also... Here is a little more info on the prototypes:

PROTOTYPE CAR
We have been doing research on Northern Michigan brewery cars for about the last five
years. Our goal was to find a Michigan brewery that actually had a real “beer” car and
our only requirement was that the brewery existed both before and after the prohibition
years. Our choice, the Bosch Brewing Company began brewing beer in 1874 and closed
the last of its facilities in 1973.
In 1899 the Copper Range Railroad purchased Insulated Refrigerator Cars from the
Pullman Company. There were seven cars in this series and the road numbers were 140
and 954 through 959. These cars were classic “Turn of Century” freight cars. They were
60,000 pound capacity; were either 33’ or 34’ in length and of wooden construction with
truss rods and arch-bar trucks. The cars were painted Reddish Brown and had White
lettering.
We know that the Copper Range Railroad had ownership of the car, but we do not know
who painted the actual car. The car could have been painted by either the brewery or
the railroad and made a great advertisement car for Bosch Brewing Company. The
Copper Range Railroad did have another beer advertisement car. It was for the
Scheuermann Brewery’s “Rheingold” brand; however the brewery did not survive after
the prohibition years.
2014 NMRRC CLUB CAR
We were only able to obtain a photo of the “957” car. However we decided to do a two
car set; the ‘957” car for the original “LAKE LINDEN” brewery and the “959” car for the
“HOUGHTON” brewery. The car sides and roof will be painted Reddish Brown and have
prototypically accurate White lettering and “star” graphics.
Since our club membership dose not collect or operate “Turn of Century” freight cars,
we chose this year to go with a Steam Era Classic 40’ Wood-Side Composite
Refrigeration Car made by Weaver Models. The Weaver car body has molded doors,
ladders and steel ribbed ends. Because of the ribbed ends we were unable to have the
large “Bosch” name logo on the car ends.
NMRRC JUNE2014

BTW, we still have 3 or 4 of last year's "Turtle" Detroit & Mackinac reefers left.

Check on our web site. WWW.NMRRC.ORG

Order form is filled out. The CFO will write the check and get this mailed tomorrow.

Gilly

You may not want to constrain yourself to breweries that survived Prohibition...very

few did, and a great many did not.  Seems like almost every city of any size had a

brewery, and many now are vacant lots.

One real problem with doing the Scheuermann Brewery car is that the design was so complex and multicolored that we would have to charge a considerable amount more to do it.  I am always looking for more candidates.  There were a lot of breweries in the copper & iron mining regions of Northern Michigan.  Problem is finding good photos or artwork.

Hey John.. Found this pic   Supposed to be the brewery on Portage Lake in Houghton.

And this is in the sandstone wall at the Lake Linden location...

I've downloaded my order form and am just trying to decide one or two cars. 

Cool!  Thanks Charlie!

The beer cars are done.  Paint is drying and Weaver should be shipping them to the club in about a week for them to begin distribution.

These cars really turned out well.  Many thanks to John Slater at Buffalo Creek Graphics and Joe Hayter at Weaver!  

We should have them and start shipping them to buyers in early November.

They look very nice. Are any still available?

Yes, there are still some available - but don't wait too long!  Click on www.nmrrc.org for the form, or to click straight to the form go to MichRR714's earlier post above.

Thank you. I'm having trouble opening the order form, though, and I can't seem to find MichRR714's link.

Thanks.

Jim click HERE

Got it. Thank you.

Sorry that you had a problem with the site.  We did some major changes with it and there might be some things that need adjusting.  It still is a major improvement over the old one.

Hope that you enjoy your car!  "From the Sportsman's Paradise, Bosch Beer!"

For those that ordered these you are in for a treat.  I understand there are a few left for those that would like to place an order.

Looks good - I'll be looking forward to seeing mine!

Nice job on the video Charlie - thanks a lot!!! 

Hi Charlie • Well done video on the Bosch Beer Co. Boxcar.

Below is a screen shot from the video. Click photo to enlarge map.

Cool. My wife ordered these for my Birthday (August). I'll finally get my birthday present! Look for mine to be joining the Beer Train along with my Natty Boh and Rheingold TOFC cars!

Am I seeing that one is steel sided and one is wood sided? They look great. I look forward to getting my cars.

Gilly

Gilly, they are the same car bodies.  The number and brewery location are the only differences.

Have these cars started shipping?

Gilly

They should start shipping next week.  Our member who is handling that was sent out of town by his company, when he gets back the cars should start traveling.  

Just unboxed my Lake Linden version of the Bosch car...nice job on the graphics! You did a great job selecting an interesting upper peninsula subject this year. I'll bet this one will sell out quick!

Neil

Thanks Neil!!!  For those of you who have ordered this car and are still waiting...Neil lives nearby and came over in person to pick it up.  The rest should start shipping real soon!

Here's mine on the rails, behind Copper Range 194.

Last chance.  We have just 7 Bosch beer cars left.  Two were sold yesterday.  Also a few Detroit & Mackinac "Turtle" reefers left.  See our website.

Great cars, here is a short story about my car. 

Thanks Gary!!!   Hope you like your D&M reefer too!

Hi John • Received the car yesterday, looks great on the rails, Thanks

from the Northern Michigan Railroad Club • http://www.nmrrc.org/

Very nice car...you guys did a great job getting this done!!

Alan

Thanks guys!  It's fun doing these.  BTW, last I looked there was only one Bosch car left.  Also, we found one more D&M car, with the white turtle (#2003) - so Gary, if you want the complete set, act fast. 

I'll take the Bosch car

doug

Doug, e-mail sent.