Mailpouch Tobacco Barns

Grampstrains posted:

A Mailpouch barn would be a great item from Menard's.

The good old days...but I doubt Menards would touch it. Current climate dictates anything tobacco is strictly taboo...

Hello Colorado Hirailer:

Mail Pouch made it to Illinois. Still some "ghost" images to see if you know where to look.

There is a pretty good site that I will need to look for that shows the status of the known signs.

Here is the site I was thinking about:

http://mailpouchbarnstormers.org/

Not sure how current the list is, but it does show that Illinois still has 21 and the signs made it all the way to California at some point.

Charlie

There is a nice barn in my area that has a large "Mailpouch" ad painted on the side in good shape. You could have a decal made from it.  The owner(now deceased) had it painted. Also, Mailpouch was made in Wheeling.

Yes, when I was a student at West Virginia University (1972-6), they had a wall of the student union painted with the Mailpouch advertisement.

There are several Mailpouch barns on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

George

Mail Pouch cars made by MTH, and Lionel:

A little more effort, and research on my part before posting would have discovered on the internet auction a varierty of Mail Pouch decals in O and other scales, and that Lionel offered a number of Mail Pouch boxcars.  I found that "barnstormers" website, which is where I found Colorado mining camps with buildings painted for Mail Pouch.  Interesting to know they made it as far as California, too.  Can be a long distance from a barn next to a road in the prairie states.