Okay, here’s the video. Not like I would prefer to display it however. It is a consist of 17 beer reefers, 1 Jack Daniels car, and a caboose all pulled by a LGB Forney.
Enjoy.
[youtube][http://youtu.be/1kdd5bjQKlw][youtube]
Doc Watson
Help, How do I delete this topic?
WHY! We like beer.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Tell me me something I don’t know. Actually I was trying to embed a YouTube video and failed. Maybe someone can give me some tips in addition to deleting this topic so I can start a new one.
Doc
Where’s the beer train? I’m working on one myself!
Embedding is easy. click on the link oyu posted and it takes you to your youtube post. Right click on the video and there on the menu will be copy Embed code lick that. Then when you post at the top is the video thingy (looks like film with a play button/arrow) like on that click on embed then past the embed code and your done. As for deleting the topic not sure you can. Bob I think has to do it.
BTW Thanks Joe for helping me with that.
Thanks Devon and Joe. I really appreciate the help.
Doc Watson
I have a “Beer train” for when my friends are over and they have been drinking too much beer and want to start putting things on the train as it goes by. Rather than ruin the atmosphere I purchased in pieces several very cheap cars and an engine to run which can be destroyed and I won’t care.
I will post pictures next week.
My very first LGB car was a Budweiser Reefer. I thought surely that couldn’t be a real car, but later I found an old pic of a Bud reefer and it was exactly the same.
That’s a nice collection of reefers, Doc. The little Forney seems to have no trouble with them in tow.
I spotteed a Captian Morgan Rum car in there toward the end of the train. Nice set of cars, I like the beer theme train, there are lots of options, plus you can add your own stlye to a train this way. Only way to make it better is to have beer delivered to you with the train!
Just for fun, let’s take inventory of Doc’s nice beer/whiskey/rum reefer collection:
Jack Daniel’s Whiskey - LGB
Sierra Nevada Big Foot Ale – USA Trains
Quinns Irish Ale – USA Trains
Narragansett Ale – USA Trains
Anchor Brewing Foghorn Beer – USA Trains
Bear Whiz Beer (906) – USA Trains
Burger Bock Beer – USA Trains
Erie Railbender Ale – USA Trains
Copperhead Premium Ale – USA Trains
Duquesne Buccaneer Beer – USA Trains
Stroh’s Beer – Delton
Mendocino Red Tail Pale Ale Beer – USA Trains
Samuel Adams Beer – USA Trains (2nd edition)
Captain Blackbeard Old Pirate Rum – USA Trains
Erie Railbender Ale – USA Trains (Doc likes this – he has 2 of them)
Captain Morgan Spiced Rum – USA Trains
Carlings Old Pirate Lager Beer – USA Trains
Iroquis Beer – USA Trains
I’m currently working on my own beer train and have already put a dent in my want list from a couple of months ago. The Bear Whiz cars (set of 6) are fairly rare and ain’t cheap! The Mendocino Pale Ale was produced in limited quantities by Trainshowcase; the Jack Daniels car was produced in a numbered limited edition from Watt’s Train Shop.
Michael, Thanks for doing the inventory. I forgot about the Rum car. I have one other Delton reefer. I don’t know why I didn’t include it. Maybe it was under a couple of empty beer cases that day. I bought the Jack Daniels car in honor of my wife’s whiskey preference. Since I’m not a collector, I didn’t think twice about breaking the fancy seal on the box and immediately adding Kadee couplers.
John, Yes, that little LGB Forney is a great puller. Some think it’s one of the best ever made by LGB. My inner loop has a 4% grade and my Forney can pull 6 of these cars up the hill with no problem.
Doc
Here’s my favorite beer car. It’s scratch built with custom made decals. I didn’t include it because it’s 1:20.3 scale and wouldn’t look quite right in the beer train for obvious reasons.
Doc Watson
Don Watson said:
Michael, Thanks for doing the inventory. I forgot about the Rum car. I have one other Delton reefer. I don’t know why I didn’t include it. Maybe it was under a couple of empty beer cases that day. I bought the Jack Daniels car in honor of my wife’s whiskey preference. Since I’m not a collector, I didn’t think twice about breaking the fancy seal on the box and immediately adding Kadee couplers.
Don, which Kadee’s did you put on your reefers? And I see you have metal wheels too - Bachmann’s?
Now that’s my idea of a Keg car. I love beer, but three years ago I had gastric bypass surgery and one of the funny side effects is that beer makes me drunk. . . well drunker faster anyway. No seriously stop laughing, it has to do with the sugar alcohol in beer and wine being absorbed very quickly since It goes straight to my intestine and does not get much digestion. The funny part is that hard alcohol does not have this effect on me. Where I used to be a normal person and drink three or four beers before getting a buzz, anything more than one now and I am getting buzzed. However, hard alcohol effects me about the same as always and I don’t really get light headed or dizzy from it like I do beer. So I have resorted to Old #7 again as my drink of choice.
So where does one get a JD reefer car?
Nice beer train.
We have two beer trains. One includes the Bear Whiz set. We run four of these cars in the train and two are being iced for shipment. The train can be seen throughout the video and Gustav is activing forcing ice into the hatch at 3:50. He is actually attached (but removable) to the car and can ride the rails trying to force that block of ice through the hatch. I prepared an article on how I did this and it ran in Garden Railways Magazine.
Then we have the “low rider” train that uses a full can of Modela and a full bottle of Pacifico Clara to match the Pacifico Reefer that houses all the electronics for the wheel strobes and to make the car dance. The Modela can has grafitti labeling it as “skunk beer,” and that is why the car trails behind the rest of the train pulled by a chain (think Beanie and Cecil and cartoons you’ve seen with Noah and the arc and skunks.) The Low Rider train starts at 2:05.
Michael,
All my beer cars have Kadee 830’s installed. The metal wheels are either Gary Raymond or Sierra Valley, nothing but the best.
Todd,
Cool beer train. I wish I had purchased all the Bear Whiz cars when they were available, but I had other priorities then. I remember your article on automating the Ice House.
Doc Watson
I’ve got a friend who can do a Bear Whiz caboose for you if you want.
Todd Brody said:
“I’ve got a friend who can do a Bear Whiz caboose for you if you want”.
Yeah, I wanted your friend to do a caboose for me, but he doesn’t answer my PM’s or e-mails. Doesn’t look like he’s making himself available.
By the way, Todd, I really like your beer train, and especially your SP diesels and the animation and detail throughout the layout. Really entertaining! Low…ride…er. Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip and see! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
