As some of you may know Nabisco cave into animal rights groups and changed the little boxes of their crackers so the animals won’t be in cages. Circus are also gone thanks to them. In honor of the original boxes I’m starting to put together a special train. Two cars are done already. I’d like you opinion. Six more to go.
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Are you eating the crackers first ?
I seem to remember seeing something about this, er, issue.
Objecting to keeping flour and sugar animals in cardboard and ink cages (does it really lead to pulling the wings off puppies?) really does trivialize all the good that some of these groups have done in the past. But, as we should know by now, once a victim, always a victim. There is no end to it, and never will be, so long as people listen.
We used to call it "whining".
Oh, yeah - forgot to mention railroading. OK: "4-6-4".
Vinny26 posted:As some of you may know Nabisco cave into animal rights groups and changed the little boxes of their crackers so the animals won’t be in cages. Circus are also gone thanks to them. In honor of the original boxes I’m starting to put together a special train. Two cars are done already. I’d like you opinion. Six more to go.
Be careful Vinny....you might find a picket line in front of your house.....that being said....I love the idea.....all the best ...joe
I agree. Remove the animals from the cages and replace them with the Waco idiots that came up with the idea to remove the bars. It is a win win for humanity and common sense.
Of course I eat the crackers first!
Looks great. Might I suggest you foward these pics to P.i.T.A.
if I remember correctly,,,,didn't k-line do a run of cracker cars?
Not sure if it was Kline though it most likely was. There was a blue one, yellow one, a reddish brown one (excuse me, I'm color blind) or maybe one of each. Nice cars, see them every so often, usually in blue hall at York.
You go man!
KMT nice cars I have several
SantaFeJim posted:I agree. Remove the animals from the cages and replace them with the Waco idiots that came up with the idea to remove the bars. It is a win win for humanity and common sense.
Hey, let's be careful! The word is wacko. No need to sully the reputations of the good people of the city of Waco in McLennan County, Texas, only a minority of whom may be wacko.
What, me worry?
Look at it this way, now they're free range crackers and therefore healthier to munch on...
Rusty
Fantastic looking cars great idea 🙂
Well I don't know about you guys but if I buy a box of animal crackers now I will draw the bars on the boxes, I don't need for those animal crackers escaping in the middle of the night and attacking me while I sleep. I may not be quick enough to eat them all, especially if I don't have a glass of cold milk near by. . .
I used to eat these crakers a lot as a kid. Have not had any in a while, maybe I'll start eatting them again. They good! 
Waco is a brand of airplane that some WWII pilots learned to fly on, made in a small town in Ohio that has a fly-in of these vintage aircraft. There is always some totalitarian group anxious to take away everybody's rights
The 3 Barnums animal cracker , nabisco cars are by Franks Roundhouse. He bought the KMT tooling and did lots of custom paint on them between 1983 and 1992. I have several and run the animal cars with my K-line Ringling bros train.
K-line did do a flatcar with Nabisco blue ends that held a cracker box in between them .
I love your idea. When I bought them, way back when, they came from Frank Rash.
Below is a link to some info about Frank and Jack Rash and Frank's Roundhouse cars.
http://www.robertstrains.com/Frank.htm
Animal politics aside, I do like animal crackers though they might should be called animal COOKIES due to their sweetness. They are fairly low in fat say compared to Oreos, and they have calcium carbonate added as a source of calcium for growing bones in young children. They go well as a snack with coffee, but our diabetic friends may have to exhibit some restraint in their consumption. Oh, and of course, the classic Marx Brothers' film by the same name is also a favorite of mine!
Yeah, me too (can I say that?)
Who let the Dogs out?
Didn't Frank Rash do a green one also about a year later?
Let's remember that its very important to remove the bars from a box of animal shaped cookies....the same cookies that we all immediately bite the heads off of when we eat them..... 
Nice job on the cars.
Rusty
…...and this is what makes our hobby so great - never a shortage of ideas to play with. Nice topic Vinny.
P.E.T.A. People Eating Tasty Animals.
As a kid I used to enjoy a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo. Right behind PRR Zoo tower. My dad shot a lot of 8mm of steamers running back and forth behind the Zoo.
Just took the grand kids to the Zoo. UGH! It is so P.C. it is a boring waste of a LOT of money. The animal crackers have more to see than the Phila Zoo. Plus, no steam engines to film.
Ahh, steam engines & film, both essentially gone.
colorado hirailer posted:Waco is a brand of airplane that some WWII pilots learned to fly on, made in a small town in Ohio that has a fly-in of these vintage aircraft.
Just to be precise, it's WACO (in caps), an acronym for Weaver Aircraft Company. But why split hairs when people are kept behind bars while cookies are set free?
What, me worry?
I also have had mixed feelings as I gingerly bit off the heads of these wonderful cookies! 😐
FYI: The San Francisco Zoo still has a 22" gauge railroad featuring a beautiful gas-fired historic Cagney steam locomotive (one of three in the world!) that partially encircles the exhibits. My then younger grandson and I rode it multiple times including a ride in the tender back in 2000! GREAT fun and an excellent zoo!
The San Francisco Zoo sounds like it is far more appealing than the Philadelphia Zoo and it HAS a live steam train you can ride!
Oldcarsrule posted:Below is a link to some info about Frank and Jack Rash and Frank's Roundhouse cars.
http://www.robertstrains.com/Frank.htm
not to hijack the subject matter but franks roundhouse also did a lot of custom standard in their day also,,,,my 2 cense,thanks you, and back to eating crackers/cookies
unbelievable
NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!
A train has hit a herd of animals near the main street crossing with the CBS Railroad.
The Police report stated that the animals had no heads and the train crew was not hurt and did not
want to go to the hospital but to the nearest store that sold milk.
CBS072 posted:NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!
A train has hit a herd of animals near the main street crossing with the CBS Railroad.
The Police report stated that the animals had no heads and the train crew was not hurt and did not
want to go to the hospital but to the nearest store that sold milk.
Love it!!
Tinplate Art posted:Animal politics aside, I do like animal crackers though they might should be called animal COOKIES due to their sweetness. They are fairly low in fat say compared to Oreos, and they have calcium carbonate added as a source of calcium for growing bones in young children. They go well as a snack with coffee, but our diabetic friends may have to exhibit some restraint in their consumption. Oh, and of course, the classic Marx Brothers' film by the same name is also a favorite of mine!
CBS072 posted:NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!
A train has hit a herd of animals near the main street crossing with the CBS Railroad.
The Police report stated that the animals had no heads and the train crew was not hurt and did not
want to go to the hospital but to the nearest store that sold milk.
And today a new product launch was anounced
RSJB18 posted:Let's remember that its very important to remove the bars from a box of animal shaped cookies....the same cookies that we all immediately bite the heads off of when we eat them.....
Nice job on the cars.
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