The other night, I bought some wood barrels from one of the big-chain craft stores at 99 cents for a bag of 2. Tonight I looked on the package and low and behold, the manufacturer has a website where you can get them even cheaper. For $15.00 I bought a bag of 100 wooden barrels for the Beerhall, beer garden and Krausbrau Brauerei in my G-scale alpine German village of Krausbach (named after my late godparents Karl & Christine Kraus who were from Nurnberg, Germany). If you are building a structure that is in need of barrels, oil drums or milk cans check them out at http://www.craftparts.com/mall/page37.asp I hope I am not in violation of any forum rules by posting the link as my intention is to help anyone else who may be looking for these items. The barrels are 1 5/8 inches tall by 1 1/8 inches wide. They also have a selection of other wood parts which may be of some help for a scratch-building project.
Can’t wait to see a picture of the trestle with ‘pickle’ barrels. But thats ok, I’m gonna haul ‘oil’ in mine … Just wait until my 24:1 people find out they’re drilling for ‘pickles’.
I have bought barrels, milk cans from a company in Ft. Worth, Texas about 10 years ago. You can check their prices on the following web sites and see if they are price competitive. Here are their web sites.
http://www.woodwrks.com/ That is the main website, click on Toy Cargo, they offer other items too.
When I bought, I bought the bags of 100 as that was the cheapest price per piece.
Your link takes you to the same place as mine. I just have it going directly to the toy cargo page rather than their websites homepage. Yes, it is an excellent source for not only the barrels, but other wood parts which may help with a scratchbuild project.
Matt I be happy to get you some, just need a picture. Not a problem, got John some stuff for a train and he is down under so way not?!
Many thanks for the offer, but having gone back to double check the website shipping details I…um…[:-^]mis-read the terms. $50 was an estimated cost for 10lbs. Not going to order that much so I’ll go through the order process and get them to give me a quote before I order.