Interesting find

[chatanuga]

Friday night, I stopped after work to get groceries on my way home.  I'm going down the snack and beverage aisle, scanning the shelves, when I stopped and asked myself, "Did I just see a train?"  I backed up and looked at the shelves a little more closely.  Sure enough, on the Jones Root Beer 4-packs was an image of what appeared to be a BNSF doublestack train.  The caption said it was taken in Alamogordo, New Mexico.  Was almost tempted to buy it just for the train on the bottles but decided against it.  Was still surprising to find something train-related where I least expected it.

Kevin

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

This appear to be the photo:

http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/photos/zoom/0001187214.jpg [NOTE:  Link broken ?]

More detail can be found here:

http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/view.php?ID=1187214&search[text]=alamogordo&search[imagetype]=labelchoice&offset=1 

Apparently the Jones Soda Co. is real big on custom and submitted photos for labels.  This one was submitted Oct. 16, 2010 by Dale Emmert of Alamogordo, NM in the "Travel" category, and is a "Staff Pick" favorite.  The caption is "Train comes up the canyon east of Belen, New Mexico".    

I've been buying occasional cases of Erie Brewing Co.'s "Railbender Ale" - see:

http://www.eriebrewingco.com/Railbender.html 

http://www.eriebrewingco.com/Derailed.html

but now I'll have to see if I can find the Jones Soda Root Beer as well, for the non-alcoholic folks. 

Thanks for sharing that !

- Paul North.   

[CShaveRR]

Jones makes all kinds of carbonated beverages--a good display is quite colorful--and I'm pretty sure I've seen that (or maybe another) railroad photograph before.  I'm not tempted by them, because I usually see their displays where fountain drinks--bottomless, diet fountain drinks--are also available.

[rdamon]

Here is one of my favorite wines .....

http://www.snoqualmie.com/Wines/columbia_valley/2008_whistlestop_red_cab-merlot

Usually around $10 - $15

 

Robert

 

 

[zugmann]

Harrisburg-based Appalachian Brewing Co. (ABC) uses a picture of the Rockville Bridge in their logo...

 

http://www.abcbrew.com/index_flash.htm

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

And on the label for their "Trail Blaze Organic Brown Ale" - see: http://www.abcbrew.com/abbey/abc_beers.htm 

[zugmann]

Paul_D_North_Jr

And on the label for their "Trail Blaze Organic Brown Ale" - see: http://www.abcbrew.com/abbey/abc_beers.htm 

 

Also on their root beer/birch beers...

 

Good stuff if you can find it.

[samfp1943]

And MY Favorite--A real Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) Classic

Oldde Frothing Slosh   @  http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/oldfroth.html

 

 

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Frothingslosh was 'invented' by then-Pittsburgh radio personality and comedian Rege Cordic, who was the son of a B&O official as I recall - he penned some articles for Trains, even - 5, from 1965 - 1994, according to the "Magazine Index".  Cordic was also a model railroader, and contributed lots of pieces to the NMRA Bulletin of the 1970's time frame, when Whit Towers was the editor - 9, from 1976 - 1980 - 2 are as follows.  A typical one was using a can of Olde Frothingslosh as the basis for a model tank car - just install trucks, couplers, and some details, and voil/a - a new car, ready-to-run !

Frothingslosh Saga by Regis Cordic  from NMRA Bulletin December 1978  p. 38

Olde Frothingslosh Car Sides-O, S, HO, TT, N, Z by Regis Cordic  from NMRA Bulletin December 1978  p. 40 carside  reefer

- Paul North.   

[LNER4472]

Re: Appalachian Brewing:  The Rockville Bridge is used as the ABC logo, and is sort of the default design.  They have only used one train-featuring logo, Rockville Rye Ale, which inexplicably featured a PRR GG1 on Rockville Bridge (the bridge does not have catenary).

There are plenty of railroad-themed microbrews, and there were quite a few more; some of the micros that featured trains, such as Riverside and Devil Mountain, are now gone.

[LNER4472]

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rate/3331/ for the Rockville Rye label art.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

In years gone by, Fox Head 400 beer was a regional brew sold mostly in Wisconsin that drew its name in part from C&NW's fleet of streamliners.  All this according to "The 400 Story", by Jim Scribbins.

[samfp1943]

LNER4472

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rate/3331/ for the Rockville Rye label art.

Fixed the link! 

[bigduke76]

going WAY back, when i returned to albuquerque from korea in 1953, my family had bought some beer from ciudad juarez, mexico, entitled 'cerveza cruz blanca' (white cross beer).  it had a 1920's style painting of a train on its label.  it was just a local brewery and i never saw it again; probably went broke in the '60's and i didn't make it to Juarez myself until 1977.  i looked for it then but - no see-um.  however i had a cruz blanca sticker  on my small suitcase until the night before i got married in dec. 1965, when the suitcase lid broke off!  -arturo

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

LNER4472

  http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rate/3331/  for the Rockville Rye label art. 

Try this version instead . . .

[tree68]

A local microbrewery - located in an old railroad station, no less - once made a beer called "Railroad Red."  Never tried it, and I don't see it listed on  their website now, either.

[Semper Vaporo]

I was at the grocery store some time ago and just before going to the checkout, i remembered that I needed butter, and needed to go to the back of the store to get it.  I took the most convenient aisle to get there and it was the, well... hmmmm.. Non-grocery aisle, for want of a better name (I guess I am "old School' in that I buy "groceries" at the Grocery store, "clothing" at the Clothing store, "tools" at the Tool store, and "car accessories" at the automotive store, so I seldom traversed this particular aisle).

Anyway, there in that aisle, amidst the car deoderants and fuses, and hammers and screwdrivers (apparetly made out of chrome plated solder) an image of a steam locomotive caught my eye.  It appears to be a Mikado type with No 476 on the cab side.  The image is reversed and the front number-boards are blacked out.   It is also at quite an angle so the number on the cab is nearly unreadable even if it weren't reversed.  The text on the tender is one long narrow white stripe that might be either "Durango and Silverton" or "Denver and Rio Grande Western", I cannot tell.

The image is on a paper label that is wrapped around 3 pair of black socks; the label reads::

"RAILROAD SOCK

AN AMERICAAN TRADITION SINCE 1901

SOCK OF THE NATION LINE

MADE IN U.S.A.

RAILROAD SOCK, INC.

GRAIN VALLEY, MO."

And it listed Sizes!  (Something I have never seen before on socks!)  Sooo...... I grabbed one package in my shoe size.

I liked them    so I bought another 2 packages a couple of weeks later.

I now need more socks, but I cannot find any at the grocery store.    Checking with the manager, he says they have never sold socks so he has no idea what I am talking about.  

 

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Semper Vaporo

 [snipped; emphasis added - PDN]   I was at the grocery store some time ago . . .   Checking with the manager, he says they have never sold socks so he has no idea what I am talking about.   

  How long has that manager been there ?  Some grocery store chains replace or rotate managers about as often as you and I - well, change socks . . . .  

Or maybe there's an outside distributor who handles the stocking of that particular aisle, so that the manager can pay attention to his 'core competency' - i.e., groceries ?  [Imagine that !   ]  Then the manager might not need to know the minutiae of what's on each shelf in each aisle . . .

Anyway, maybe you could order direct - from:

http://www.sockcompany.com/railroadsocks.html 

 See also: http://www.manta.com/c/mmnxbkn/railroad-sock-inc  

Railroad Sock Inc - 626 NW Valley Ridge Ct, Grain Valley, MO 64029-8292 [phone] 

Railroad Sock, Inc in Grain Valley, MO is a private company categorized under Socks.

Our records show it was established in 1987 and incorporated in Missouri.

Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of 1,400,000

and employs a staff of approximately 12.

http://www.shamrocksupply.com/web/product_detail.jsp;jsessionid=985E2B5E18C4650E5A238CB343EABFB3.shamrock-1?lnid=1624049&mfr=Railroad%20Sock%20Inc&mpn=6070 

http://textiles.zibb.com/trademark/sock+line+of+the+nation/29226690 

http://textiles.zibb.com/trademark/the+railroad+sock+an+american+traditionsince+1901/29479294 

- Paul North.