Any chance of making any beer trains or vehicles? Love to see some Rheingold beer livery or any beer stuff for the roads or rails. Thanks, BigRail
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I'll second that.
or make cars for the sepulcher root beer that you guys always have.
Any further discussion? All those in favor
They had better make Leinie's first. It's made right next to Eau Claire in Chippewa Falls. (remember buy/build local!!)
Beer reefers are always a good seller. MTH has run a kazillion over the past 20 years.
Bill T.
I'm a sucker for colorful beer reefers.
Please dont!!!
Pop and beer reefers would be a very good. Especially if they were very colorful. Menard's source of freight cars may have to hire more people if they were to produce pop and beer reefers.
I suspect it's the royalty issue that keeps them from producing some items. I'd be amazed if they didn't need licenses for many of the logos for various companies.
When we did the Genesee Beer car, the Silver Star Meat's car and the Fikes Dairy car all it took was a simple phone call asking for permission.
But you do have to ask. 
Well, there's one more small detail: They'd need to easily obtain dies for a reefer car, or tool one up themselves.
OR there is the possibility they could take the K-Line route they did with their Classic box car, and just do a reefer style door for their existing box car. BUT would that be enough to make people happy?
Of course they could use their existing tooling and do flat cars with a beer truck on them. Or just do box cars. Again, the "happy" question.
Though when folks have voiced their complaints about the fantasy schemes MTH puts on their rolling stock, Mike Wolf's answer: "Sorry, but it sells." As Scott Mann recently said, what people say they want is not always what they are willing to buy.
I don't want any fantasy beer cars, or cars for modern brands, brewed in a bar (common today), or any that did not exist historically ( Atlas did, mostly, if not all,
historical cars), or just plain bad models.
This is why I have none from MTH or K-Line, not trusting their lineage. (MTH made
some that were interesting, but I was leery of their being legit)
