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My last and most recent is a beer billboard  refer I had been asking MTH/Andy Eldeman to make for 15-years, at least it did make the light of day.

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Eight of these twelve refers are beer.  Packed up just before stored them.

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There are two more Miller ones (one red the other yellow) no pictures.

Plus have two beautiful  K-Line more modern Budweiser Billboard refers which could not be prototypical since they would have been out-lawed by the era they represent.

And then there is the Bush business car mixed in here right up front.

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Ron

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Well preparing for a show coming up May 22&23 at the NCTM I located the four car I referenced in my above post.

Now the two Budweiser cars are not as modern as thought, they are wood sided and in fact legal through Jan.1938.  And have a G-scale version of the "Budweiser" car.

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And the other two MTH Miller cars.

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Ron

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And... none of my visitors ever questioned that a real water tower would never be shaped like a can.

Question for those who are scale experts:  how many GALLONS would that "beer tower" hold IF my 12 oz. can were full scale and represented a full scale water tower?? I think you forget the volume of liquid refreshment (12 oz.) and convert the can dimensions to feet and inches, then convert back to gallons based on the number of gallons per cubic feet.

My abacus is not sophisticated enough to figure that.  So- I'll just have another beer.  Plus I have a hangover.

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Sitka, great thread. I've got a bunch of beer reefers, some box cars, tankers, even some hoppers and the original Lionel Adolphus observation car.  they're packed right now but I'll break them out and drop photos here as I come across them.

I notice you've got quite a few Utica Club reefers.  As the late 80s early 90s, 25 cent beer of choice at the Athens Hotel, now Stewart House, I'd love to get my hands on one.

@John23 posted:

Here's a special run beer car that my club did through Buffalo Creek Graphics.  There were 100 made.  We are looking at doing some other breweries soon, using the MTH 36' woodsided reefer.

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The club has just voted to do two beer cars featuring Northern Michigan breweries, 100 of each.  We will be using the MTH 36' car.  Hopefully they will be out next winter.

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