I Love My Wine Trains!

Love it. I have a few wine cars mixed into my "Train of Sin". Most of my cars are Beer. I also include Tobacco products in the consist. 

It's fun when you can pick a theme and build on it. I look forward to seeing more posts of your win train.

Looks great. 

Now for the beer train....🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Matt,

I'd be interested in seeing a photo of your Foppiano Wine Company tank car.  I've never heard of that one.  Are the 3rd Rail Roma and Ambrose wine 6 dome tank cars on your shopping list?  They are a little lacking in details compared to today's Atlas offerings, but they are unique because of the six domes.  If you get one, be sure to replace the trucks if they are original to the car, as they suffer terribly from zinc pest.  Thanks.

Price

 Those are beautiful engines and cars Matt'...very nice indeed'... Your landscaping vineyards are look great too'...👍🥂😃

Looks great! I always like that Napa train.

Looking over my collection of Boxcars and I realized that I have about a dozen beers cars (Budweiser, Coors, Coors Light, Hamm's, etc.) at least that many food cars (McDonald's, Contadina, Domino Sugar, etc.) and possibly even more candy cars.

I think that I can even put together a small tobacco train, but no wine cars: time to start a new collection!

I happen to know from experience that Matt buys some of the finest box wines available. Don 

@scale rail posted:

...Matt buys some of the finest box wines available. Don 

Yes, but it was a very good week,,,,

Several years ago, my wife and I went to Chile for a month to visit her 39 1st cousins. We left Santiago for about a 3 1/2 train ride. The rail was 5' gauge. We were offered coffee, coke or several different wines. Don't remember much of the ride.

Dick

Very nice!

@The Shadow posted:

Matt,

I'd be interested in seeing a photo of your Foppiano Wine Company tank car.  I've never heard of that one.  Are the 3rd Rail Roma and Ambrose wine 6 dome tank cars on your shopping list?  They are a little lacking in details compared to today's Atlas offerings, but they are unique because of the six domes.  If you get one, be sure to replace the trucks if they are original to the car, as they suffer terribly from zinc pest.  Thanks.

Price

Foppiano Vineyards have been around since 1896.  Here is the tank car.  Wow!  didn't know there were Roma and Ambrose wine tank cars.  They are on my list now!  Matt

I have the brass Roma Wine car, mine was imported by Thomas but others imported them. There is a Third Rail 6 dome Brass Roma Wine on the bay right now for $250.00. I also have the Red Caboose single dome Roma Wine tank car kit. Don

@The Shadow posted:

Matt,

I'd be interested in seeing a photo of your Foppiano Wine Company tank car.  I've never heard of that one.  Are the 3rd Rail Roma and Ambrose wine 6 dome tank cars on your shopping list?  They are a little lacking in details compared to today's Atlas offerings, but they are unique because of the six domes.  If you get one, be sure to replace the trucks if they are original to the car, as they suffer terribly from zinc pest.  Thanks.

Price

Just drank this one.  Matt

@scale rail posted:

I have the brass Roma Wine car, mine was imported by Thomas but others imported them. There is a Third Rail 6 dome Brass Roma Wine on the bay right now for $250.00. I also have the Red Caboose single dome Roma Wine tank car kit. Don

I like that single dome Roma wine tank car kit!  Thanks for the box wine endorsement.  I know how much you love Two-Buck Chuck premium wine.  Matt

The Red Caboose kits go for about $25 and are fun to put together. You need heaver metal trucks than the plastic ones that come with the kit.  Also the little plastic detail parts break off very easy. I replace mine with metal parts. Don

Matt,

Thanks for the picture of the Foppiano Co. tanker!  Yes I have the Roma and Ambrose 6 dome tanks from 3rd Rail, but I didn't pay nearly as much as has been mentioned above for either one.   Just keep your eye out and you can usually snag them for closer to $100 each.  I believe that they made two road numbers of each name.  I do have the Red Caboose Roma single dome as well, though it still languishes in kit form right now...  The graphics for all three are fairly similar- silver body with red block writing.

Price

Way back in my teen-age days when all that was available from Lionel was an endless series of Sunoco tank cars, I purchased a couple of well used examples of these, stripped the paint, filled in some nicks and dings, bought some decals from Champ, followed their prototype paint scheme recommendation, and turned out tank cars with different names.  One was the Ambrose Wine car - true, the prototype has 6 domes but I was willing to compromise - particularly given what I had to work with at the time.

Here are my Roma Wine cars. 6 dome Thomas Industries and single dome Red Caboose from a kit. Don