Let's see Beer Rolling Stock Cars

Here's a few more - Bing prewar

Schlitz (pre 1920)

Schlitz (post 1920 - censored due to prohibition)

Pabst

Budweiser

...and a few of the more recent Atlas offerings

I've really come to like the MTH 36 foot Woodside Beer Reefers. Well made and great looking cars with good detail.

Thought somebody might like Beer.

Oh those possessive beer cars!   (not car's!)

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.

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

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.

Ron

At the Altoona Brewing site

A few boxcars from RMT and MTH, hoppers in the background to left.  "Beer Can" water tower!

Nice Brewery Mike, Beer can Full ? Bet not!

Meant to add a note above on the Old German reefer. Had been looking for that one for a while as they are hard to locate these days. Great looking car.

Also the Queen City Brewing Company is a reference to a long defunct brewery in that once great railroad town, Cumberland, Maryland.

Here are some of my beer cars.   My Dad always enjoyed Bud so I keep plenty on hand on my layout ... Lol!  

Here's a small sampling from my collection.

Andy

Andy:

Nice cars!  Who made that Old Frothingslosh reefer as it's different than my 2 MTH Railking O-F reefers?

Bill T

@WftTrains posted:

Andy:

Nice cars!  Who made that Old Frothingslosh reefer as it's different than my 2 MTH Railking O-F reefers?

Bill T

Bill,

It is MTH Premier and was part of the 20-5609-1 Beer train set.

Andy

@Andy Hummell posted:

Bill,

It is MTH Premier and was part of the 20-5609-1 Beer train set.

Andy

OK, thanks,

Bill T

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.

And the other two MTH Miller cars.

Ron

After seeing the Zillertal Bahn Bier Wagen I just had to have my own.

Does anyone know if GUINNESS ever had an O gauge car made?

Weaver's PRR/Altoona 36 Lager Beer Reefer Car

Weaver PRR/Curve Beer Reefers

Weaver Iron Horse Stout Reefer

And some Atlas reefers:

Weaver also made a Falstaff reefer that I have never been able to get ahold of!

David

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.

Beer Here!

K-line did a nice commemorative series for Yuengling. The tanker is actually a bank.

Somebody say NOON!

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.

Thanks for the kind reply coach joe, Family worked at the brewery for years. Got the car's at the gift shop, they don't have them anymore to bad. The yellow car was a weaver I bought as a kid in the early 70's. They made some as a promo from what I understand. Father also had a N-gauge Reefer UC car.

God Speed! "Keep them Cold"

More beer car photos.   The Clydesdale drawn beer wagon is a York Orange Hall purchase.  The Bud car is by K line.

This car is by MTH

Beer Me!

Anybody remember the Hamm's Beer commercials with the bear? Seems to me my Dad would drink this brand.

Here is the Hamms bear !!....

https://vimeo.com/349210459

Custom Car - I use to work across the street from the Brewery

Last batch - all the other Beer cars I own have previously shown up on this thread

@Don Winslow posted:

Anybody remember the Hamm's Beer commercials with the bear? Seems to me my Dad would drink this brand.

Grew up on the Twin Cities area, and I remember lots of Hamm's tv ads. Seems they had a robust ad department. They made great animated bar signs also.

Growing up in Milwaukee, I have always been partial to beer cars from any of Milwaukee's famous brewers.  Here's a Standard Gauge tinplate Schlitz beer car by MTH.

Bob Nelson

Weaver Sam Adams, I got it as it reminded me of the only beer served on Amtrak that was fit to drink:

I have several other kit-built beer cars from the early fifties but no photos of them.

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.

ETS Trains from the Czech Republic

@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.

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.