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December 8th  9am-6pm

December 9th  10am-5pm

 

 Admission- $5  kids under 12 Free        Free Parking

 

  Boulder Model Railroad Club 35th Annual Show

 Boulder County Fairgrounds

Hover & Nelson Roads

Main Exhibits Building

Longmont ,Colorado 

 

 Model RR Displays

Operating Layouts  including the High Plains 3 Railers

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  Your Admission also gets you into see the Flatirons Mineral Clubs Rock & Mineral Show.

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There are more model Colorado reefers...there are the Atlas Coors and Schneider/Century beer cars, and O scale kit built double-door Colorado Midland and Athearn/All  Nation CB&Q double door reefer.  A Coors reefer kit was done by Athearn/All Nation/other owners, also.   Those are the ones I can think of....there were other breweries in Colorado..I've seen a photo of one of the Burlington double door reefers backed across a street into a brewery in Denver, identified as near Denver's Union Station...did THAT brewery have its own logoed reefers?  AND did any of those breweries in Pueblo have their own logoed reefers?  I think one of those breweries was related to a brewery in Wisconsin. (sorry, don't have those brewery

names at hand)

I have two box cars, made for Atlas in Austria (early O scale Atlas)....they are box

cars, not reefers, one silver and one black, professionally lettered for Coors....I wonder about the history of these cars...were they a souvenir from the Coors Golden brewery?

Weaver did a pair of Colorado beer reefers as their 2004 club cars. They were lettered for brands of a microbrewery and had locomotives painted on the side. One of them was Iron Horse Ale; I forget the other. One was red and the other light blue. 

 

Weaver also did a Colorado & Southern (or maybe Colorado Midland - I forget) reefer with a logo that looks like a militiaman or something. It's yellow.  

Chuck:  I have not heard of that one....any more information?  I did get a lead on someone from the Pueblo historical society (in a building in downtown Pueblo), who said there were Pueblo breweries with logoed reefers, but when I asked for more info, I did not get a response.  The above mentioned photo showed the Burlington car  sitting on a track halfway in the building,  through a cardoor just off the street, crossed by the tracks to reach it.

  Several buildings from thr Zang brewery are still there across from the Denver Aquarium including the Brew Masters house that fancy building you can see driving north on I-25. I heard it was also used as a brothel at one time.

  Way back when bars of the old west where supplied by only one brewery. Sometimes the brewery owned the bar. A good example of this is in the old section of Pueblo near the train station. You can see on top of the old buildings in stone a Coors logo,a Tivoli logo and the best is an old Schlitz logo with a big globe of the earth with an eagle flying above it. Your not likely to see this stuff only when someone points it out to you on a walking tour of old town Pueblo. I took the tour when I was waiting for the U.P 844 to return to Denver from the state fair a few years ago.

Speaking of Tivioli.... Reminds me of back in 1976 when my friend and I took a 'self guided tour' of the brewery long after it went out of business in 1969. Wanted to check out all the old machinery still in there. It was trashed from homeless people and wineos living there. There was still old stale beer in the copper kettles that was a least 7 years old! Got busted by Denver's finest for trespassing! Oops. Back in the day it had 2 track sidings that lead into the building. They have cleaned it up now and restored the building and like Choo-Choo Mike said it now a part of the collage campus. It was a restruant and retail shops before that.

  At lease a half dozen companies have made an O gauge version of the Pepper Packing Company reefer.I think K-line did it first. They all look pretty much the same. 

 But where did they get the idea from? I have never seen a photo of the real thing. I've even asked some old timers who worked there and they never saw a railcar that looked like that. Anybody have any info or could post a photo?

Originally Posted by CHOO-CHOO MIKE:

  At lease a half dozen companies have made an O gauge version of the Pepper Packing Company reefer.I think K-line did it first. They all look pretty much the same. 

 But where did they get the idea from? I have never seen a photo of the real thing. I've even asked some old timers who worked there and they never saw a railcar that looked like that. Anybody have any info or could post a photo?

From the Burlington Bulletin No. 12.  Copyright 1984 BRHS:

 

rReefer BB No 12 1984

 

They're everywhere, even in S Scale:

KGB 060708 01

 

Rusty

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Whew!  When I first saw the Pepper Packing post, I am thinkin' "oh, rats, another fantasy car"..so am glad to see the posted photos just above!!  Now a Coors car, a real one, is sitting at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, so it exists,  and I think Lionel probably did the first of three Coors reefers that I know about, adding Kris and Atlas, but did K-Line do one, or anybody else?

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