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Nice Tyco piece, think it still has brake wheel, and does not show any wear.
Original box. BO or preferably trade. Goes nice with that Model Power 1300.
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 7:52:24 PM
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don't drink it!
Its a bitter beer 
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 8:05:59 PM
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The connoisseur.
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 8:46:49 PM
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| Back in the mid 60's Schlitz was the beer to drink. I like the lil' joe's myself.
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 9:44:52 PM
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quote: I like the lil' joe's myself.
Originally posted by thetramp - January 21 2015 : 8:46:49 PM
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Now that's a blast from the past, forgot all about those
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 10:09:41 PM
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quote:The connoisseur.
Originally posted by NC shortlines - January 21 2015 : 8:05:59 PM
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The INFORMED connoisseur. 
I used to drink it way back. I actually spied it at the local convenience store on occasion. I'm not inclined ( or fallen over ) to drink it these days. Other beers have my favor for flavor these days. Budweiser Black Label is awesome, BTW.
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Posted - January 21 2015 : 11:45:43 PM
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For the truly informed connoisseur:
Not bitter, not sour: Root -- it's the only beer to drink. 
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Posted - January 22 2015 : 10:39:46 AM
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Couldn't resist!
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - January 22 2015 : 12:35:29 PM
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| My Dad drank fairly heavy at times along with his cigar smoking. Mom used cigarettes heavily... Between the two, I knew at 10 years old that I would never desire the use of smoking & drinking... and held strongly to my beliefs... I have the Tyco Schlitz box car simply because it's a common Tyco piece...
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Posted - January 22 2015 : 4:42:19 PM
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I would have thought that commercial was a few years later. In the mid 1970's there was always a shortage of something, be it oil, paper, meat, whatever.
Surely, if sitting around eating animals that look like phlegm and drinking a beverage that looks like urine is all the gusto you can grab, there must have been a severe gusto shortage.
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Posted - January 22 2015 : 6:29:22 PM
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root beer was a name invented during Prohibition
Anyway I likes them billboard/ad cars Real or imaginary
Course the real ones were out in the 1910s to the 1930s before the ICC banned them
Now of course the rule in null & void 
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Posted - January 22 2015 : 7:12:18 PM
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quote:root beer was a name invented during Prohibition
Originally posted by microbusss - January 22 2015 : 6:29:22 PM
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Root beer thrived in Prohibition, but the name goes back to 1876 when Charles Hires first produced it commercially for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He wanted to call it root tea, but figured root beer would sell better among Pennsylvania coal miners.
Not that it matters, but it's fun to kick around a little trivia every now and again.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 3:19:25 PM
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quote:My Dad drank fairly heavy at times along with his cigar smoking. Mom used cigarettes heavily... Between the two, I knew at 10 years old that I would never desire the use of smoking & drinking... and held strongly to my beliefs... I have the Tyco Schlitz box car simply because it's a common Tyco piece...
Originally posted by walt - January 22 2015 : 12:35:29 PM
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Yeah, I have a somewhat similair reason for trying to unload this pup. Couldn't sell it for a nickel on ebay. Also trying to pass along a Budweiser hopper and a Canadian Club hopper. Irony of ironies, thought they would have sold in a snap.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 3:51:01 PM
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quote:root beer was a name invented during Prohibition
Anyway I likes them billboard/ad cars Real or imaginary
Course the real ones were out in the 1910s to the 1930s before the ICC banned them
Now of course the rule in null & void
Originally posted by microbusss - January 22 2015 : 6:29:22 PM
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The Elwood scheme has a neat classic-HO connection too. It's a fictional scheme, originally designed for Bill Pirie of Red Ball.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 4:30:05 PM
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quote:
Yeah, I have a somewhat similair reason for trying to unload this pup. Couldn't sell it for a nickel on ebay. Also trying to pass along a Budweiser hopper and a Canadian Club hopper. Irony of ironies, thought they would have sold in a snap.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 24 2015Â :Â 3:19:25 PM
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ebay is a pretty fickle bunch! You never know.
Post some pics of your Budweiser and Canadian Club hoppers.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 11:25:06 PM
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just click on the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATBl4qH9I54
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 6:16:12 PM
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I submit some custom reefers:
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 6:23:52 PM
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quote:don't drink it!
Its a bitter beer
Originally posted by microbusss - January 21 2015 : 7:52:24 PM
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THE INFORMER....
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 6:30:06 PM
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quote:
very nice Make them yourself?
Now you needs Bear Whiz Beer
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 7:07:23 PM
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Oh, My Gosh...It's Frothingslosh!
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 7:07:37 PM
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| Picked them up at a show. The guy had alot of custom stuff.
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 8:32:20 PM
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quote:Picked them up at a show. The guy had alot of custom stuff.
Originally posted by Knights89Â -Â January 27 2015Â :Â 7:07:37 PM
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cool Well if you sees the guy again ask him to make Bear Whiz Beer
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 9:31:54 PM
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| Sure!
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Posted - January 27 2015 : 10:39:15 PM
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Awesome stuff. Now, some editorials from an alcoholic:
Schlitz new formula is a awesome. Too bad they raised the price. Just like PBR, as soon as the kids found out how good it is, the price went up. Pretty soon only the rich will be drunks.
Schaefer is one of my all time favorite brews, even though I have drank exactly six of them. I will never forget back in 1996 going to "Cub Foods" grocery store and buying....uh no...uh...wait.....er...uh...having my buddy buy a six pack of Schaefer for $1.99. I was young and clean enough back then that a six pack was a big deal. At that time, other cheap beers were $2.59 a six pack, so that seemed like a great bargain.
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 6:28:34 PM
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quote:Root beer thrived in Prohibition, but the name goes back to 1876 when Charles Hires first produced it commercially for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He wanted to call it root tea, but figured root beer would sell better among Pennsylvania coal miners.
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Originally posted by scsshaggy - January 22 2015 : 7:12:18 PM
The "root" is my favourite type of beer... ginger is my favourite type of brew...
However, here's my contribution to this thread... Tyco's Red and Brown Box offerings (note open and closed stirrups)... and one (empty) Canadian glass bottle of HIRES Root Beer.
Hires to you!
John
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 6:40:48 PM
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I have one of them Schlitz beer cars, too. In N scale, actually.
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 9:32:58 PM
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quote: quote:Root beer thrived in Prohibition, but the name goes back to 1876 when Charles Hires first produced it commercially for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He wanted to call it root tea, but figured root beer would sell better among Pennsylvania coal miners.
Not that it matters, but it's fun to kick around a little trivia every now and again. |
Originally posted by scsshaggy - January 22 2015 : 7:12:18 PM
The "root" is my favourite type of beer... ginger is my favourite type of brew...
However, here's my contribution to this thread... Tyco's Red and Brown Box offerings (note open and closed stirrups)... and one (empty) Canadian glass bottle of HIRES Root Beer.
Hires to you!
John
Originally posted by zebrails - January 31 2015 : 6:28:34 PM
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As someone who is not only underage, but so much of a nerd that the kids who do drink ignore my friends and I, I concur But I'm afraid you're not quite right, Stewart's beats Hires any day!
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Posted - February 01 2015 : 10:38:51 AM
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I'll add to the beer cars with my old wood kits. Prima Beer, and Heileman's beer cars. Frank
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Posted - February 02 2015 : 9:04:43 PM
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In heaven there ain't no beer, that's why we drink it here... so goes the
song. Don't any of you Tycoheads want to swap something for this? Micro, how
'bout that Aero Train for this little bit of alcoholic memorabilia???
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Posted - February 02 2015 : 10:27:12 PM
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Found this in Post Texas on Saturday and thought this guy has a real problem. Not trains but it kinda fits here.
Regards, John
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Posted - February 03 2015 : 11:48:40 AM
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quote:
In heaven there ain't no beer, that's why we drink it here... so goes the
song. Don't any of you Tycoheads want to swap something for this? Micro, how
'bout that Aero Train for this little bit of alcoholic memorabilia???
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 02 2015Â :Â 9:04:43 PM
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NOOOO! What do you want instead?
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Posted - February 03 2015 : 6:54:16 PM
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quote:Found this in Post Texas on Saturday and thought this guy has a real problem. Not trains but it kinda fits here.
Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â February 02 2015Â :Â 10:27:12 PM
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Supercan? Sounds like the name of a porta potty rental. The can's about that size, too.
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Posted - February 03 2015 : 11:03:27 PM
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| OK, no swap, but at least let me lick the box.
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Posted - September 11 2015 : 7:57:38 PM
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quote:OK, no swap, but at least let me lick the box.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 03 2015Â :Â 11:03:27 PM
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I got a durango stock in the box never been ran and it mine to keep
devin "give me the ugly steam none of that streamlined stuff"
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Posted - September 12 2015 : 07:31:15 AM
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like this robin hood beer car
/tyco/forum/uploaded/catfordken/20150912072931_2011-10-2813.jpg
interesting site for the beer car collector
http://www.hobeercars.com/
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Posted - September 12 2015 : 3:55:21 PM
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| MRC Model Power has a 6 pack now
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 12:18:42 AM
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| Dang, I actually started a beer thread.
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 07:14:27 AM
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** Here is my Marx HO beer car. It is a very unique one made up of a log unloading car and a idler flat to allow for the swing of the load. This car is used for bulk deliveries of the product. Two breweries had to be built side by side to allow for enough production to fill this special beer delivery car.
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 2:28:19 PM
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Apparently the livery was designed so that drunks can still read it after they have fallen down!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 02:53:09 AM
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Now THIS is a subject I can get behind !!
 An Athearn kit (or "Atheranan" as some think it's spelled!! LOL!!!)
And this one, was an Accurail "Data Only" reefer, that I custom lettered, when I couldn't find a Budweiser Car, that EvilBay sellers didn't call "rare" so they could jack up the price!!
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 11:07:55 PM
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| Nice angle, and the weathering to the trucks is spot on.
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 11:15:51 PM
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quote:Nice angle, and the weathering to the trucks is spot on.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â September 29 2015Â :Â 11:07:55 PM
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Thanks! It's something I've been doing for over 30 years....
If I can't find what I like, I just make it!!
I've also hosted NMRA weathering clinics in Milwaukee and Timonium. I LOVE weathering!
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