Beer Can Tank cars.

[pbjwilson]

Came across this on e-bay. Wouldnt be to difficult to make something like this. A pair of trucks, and some detail parts off an old tanker perhaps. A string of these behind a Beep would be fun.

http://cgi.ebay.com/BEER-CAN-TANKER-KIT-By-WALTHERS_W0QQitemZ6060154071QQcategoryZ485QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[dougdagrump]

Paul, You would probably have to use the old style cans, the newer aluminum would cru***o easy.

[wrmcclellan]

Doug,

Rats - and I was half way through a 12 pack unit train this afternoon...

[dougdagrump]

Roy, Just think of them as having been designed for safety, "Crumple Zones". [;)]

[dwiemer]

I saw a few of these kits made into "AmWay" cars with the likes of shaving cream cars, etc. on a recent auction. They could be neat to have, but I noticed it was a Pabst Blue Ribbon 16 oz can that they show in the picture for the kit, so Doug will have to switch to 16 oz. Of course he could also make foster's Oil Can cars. I actually have a beer can collection that I will have to figure out what to do before my parents sell the house.
Dennis

[Nagurney]

I have one of those kits that I bought 25+ years ago and never built. Where did time fly?
I think I even saved a can of Billy beer for it.
Lad

[More to restore]

It is better not to drink that beer no more, Lad!

[cnw1995]

You sure find the neatest things on e-Bay, Paul!

Say, the bar in the train station sells these gigantic Fosters cans and long 23 oz (why not 24) cans for other vintages. I'll have to start doing some market research to see which cans would work best.

It might be better just to make a cradle for a series of flat cars so that they could transport some cooled, full cans from refrigerator over to me. Then I would have to work prototypically with such "loaded" cars.