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Switching Towers never Die, some become alcoholics

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Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:23 PM

 Hmm, I know where you can get some pizza and sit by the tracks watchign trains go by. Not sure if they are allowed to sell beer there though - if they are, not on tap, it would be sixxers to go. Bonus, it's in an old train station.

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:20 PM

It would be really cool if there was a switching tower Pub where you could enjoy a pint while watching the action out in the yard or along the mainline.Beer

Brent

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00 PM

SeeYou190

I love unpacking stored items and finding the treasures forgotten.

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-Kevin

My old trains were in boxes for nearly 40 years.  I loved unpacking them.  The first structure I fixed up and then repainted was an old Plasticville switch tower.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:41 AM

railandsail
recently unpacked it from stowage,...almost like Christmas

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I love unpacking stored items and finding the treasures forgotten.

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-Kevin

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Posted by railandsail on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:25 AM

Confession, in case no one noticed I said, "It decided to turn itself..."

I did not create that structure, I found it at a train show if I recall properly,...long ago. I just recently unpacked it from stowage,...almost like Christmas

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, January 13, 2020 1:00 PM

I took the Arrowhead Ale background building and made it the Strumpet Brewery.  I have a beer truck and even a beer ice-bunker reefer.

I have three bars and a number of thirsty customers on my layout.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00 PM

That is a nice bit of conversion work.

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It should look good on your layout.

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-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, January 13, 2020 11:53 AM

Nicely done, Brian.  I recognise the MDC/Roundhouse brickwork and windows on the annex, and the tower looks familiar, too, but can't remember the maker of it - my thought is perhaps Atlas, but that's just a guess.

Wayne

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Switching Towers never Die, some become alcoholics
Posted by railandsail on Monday, January 13, 2020 9:54 AM

Switching Towers never Die, some become alcoholics  wink
What is that old saying about old solders.... :)
 

I've got a switching tower that just didn't want to die. It decided to turn itself into a craft beer brewing company..... Guzlit Beer

 

 

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