I’m not a beer drinker, but I DO look forward to cases of this particular ale showing up in local stores:
You gotta love a company that uses a Lionel 512 gondola as a logo! [;)]
How cool is that?
You know, this return to local craft breweries is a wonderful throwback to the old pre-Prohibition days when just about every big city neighborhood had it’s own brewery. Not a big Anheuser-Busch type, mind you, but small and catering to the needs of local bars and restaurants. Prohibition killed them off of course, they just didn’t have the capital to switch to other products like the big boys did.
As the song says, “Everything old is new again!”
Looks like it’s going to be a fun Christmas in Cleveland!
Bummer - no pic showing, just a little blue square…what is the brand?
Penny…Great Lakes Brewing is one of the best! We need a Great Lakes boxcar to be built. Have you ever dined at the brewery? The Christmas Ale goes well with Roast duck, spiced desserts, and ugly Christmas sweaters. [(-D]
Great Lakes Brewery Christmas Ale. Let’s see if this one shows up for you:
https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/christmas-ale
Disclaimer: Please drink responsibly. [;)]
Yum!
that looks like a dark, tasty ale. Perfect after a hard day of track laying,
and Gandy Dancing !
Paul
That’s fun! Thanks Becky!
Now I’m thirsty.
Thanks. [sigh]
I spotted that in Walmart a couple years ago. Never did get any to try it.
Hmm, I wonder if it’s made it to the local Walmart here in Virginia?
I’ve got a mission now…
The snow is flying and with “sleigh ride” stuck in my head it’s time for a few quick pics!
Finished this layout yesterday.
Besides all the new figures I painted over the summer, like “Mr. Blue Kazoo” by the station flag in the pic above and these two air personnel in the photo below, I made a few improvements to the layout and vicinity.
Since I now have ground crew, I decided to land the Ju-52:
You can see it here in 2017 hanging from the ceiling which is where it’s been for years:
It’s 1:48 scale and while still small compared to the 1:32 54mm figures I’m using it’s a better fit than an N(?) scale DC-3 I used in the past. (Although with New Ray planes the scale is “fits in this size box”. [;)])
For some reason my MTH radar antenna runs poorly when it’s hooked up to my layout’s 14v power grid. So, I decided to install a switch at the front corner of the airfiel
Here’s the Standard Gauge layout I put together a couple of months ago:
Owing to occasional puddles down in the basement, I needed space in this room to move stuff to higher ground. So, I cut down the layout to a simple oval and erected a tree in the corner where the boxes had been:
Back in Plasticville, I really wanted to bring back the viaduct this year:
It’s a great place to show off a train or trolley.
So is a windowsill. [:D]
Betcha can’t guess where this is headed…[;)]
I…am…just…stunned…
I’m in the presence of greatness!
Just to tantalize you…
[;)]
dangit now I wanna go get our tree tomorrow! we cut ours at a local tree farm. We went to the same place for almost 20 years, old farmer had them, $10 for years. They would last a long time. We all like the tree and decorations, and the Mrs likes me in the living room playing with the trains instead of downstairs, so we would leave the tree up until it started to dry out. One year me made it to Easter…people give you funny looks when you have Christmas stuff that late. And I love the Ju-52. I have most of the WWll airplane models I built growing up hangind downstairs, but I don’t think I’d be allowed to put screws in the living room cieling to hand a few 1/48 scale B-17s and a B-29, plus the escorts!
Aside from fighters the only other 1:48 model I had was the Enola Gay! [:D] It’s still hanging over the layout table downstairs and I had considered converting it into a passenger plane just like Boeing did. But I couldn’t find anywhere big enough to land the thing! [(-D]
“Atomic Airlines! Flying with us is a BLAST!”
[(-D]
By the way I went to my local Wal-Mart today and they had the Christmas Ale. Cool, but it makes me wish those boxes really were full of 512 gondolas! [;)]
I like to poke through local history archives at this time of year. Here are a few fun pics I found in the Cleveland Memory Project Cleveland State University collection.
Train ride at Parmatown Mall 1979. The mall was torn down in recent years and restructured into separated stores.
Higbee’s indoor train ride:
“Chesapeake and Ohio Railway’s ‘Can-Do Special’, a full-size replica of a 490 engine cab. Throttle starts activator under seat and moves along C&O right-of-way screen outside window make for perfect illusion of a train ride. Besides the youngsters blow a real train whistle and ring the locamotive’s bell.”–photo verso.
The 2 above photos are dated 1948. Higbee’s of course was the department store attached to the Cleveland Union Terminal owned by the VanSweringen brothers who in turn owned the C&O.
This has always been one of my favorites. I wonder if that little guy got a train for Christmas?
Higbee’s 1934. The top 3 stores were Halle’s, Higbees and The May Co.
Higbee’s of course was made even more famous by a little 1983 film:
Teaser #2: