At the local liquor store (or as my dad used to call them, the beer depot) on Saturday I saw a bin of inexpensive white and red wines with a label that looked a bit like the classic Santa Fe warbonnet scheme on an F or E unit.
The name of the wine, which I have not tried, is “Grand Pacific.” Here is their website that shows the label
http://www.roundhillwines.com/wines/grandpacific/
Dave Nelson
Maybe it’s a relabeling of this?
Used to see these bottles littering the streets when NY was in the pits in the '70s.
This is one case where I think there’s been a misuse and misappropriation of a RR trademark (SP).
I would think the BNSF legal department might have a problem with the trade dress of the train image on the label.
Dito on the trademark issue.
As a dedicated onephile, I wouldn’t want my trademark–or something that resembled it–on that wine.
Gabe
Darn! I thought this was going to be another post bashing the Trains.Com forums.
Now that I think of it, my memory is that the “Night Train Express” label was formerly black with a generic looking 19th century locomotive (ten-wheeler?) rushing through the darkness. Cartoonish. Slapped on a bottle shaped like a pint flask, it looked like the cheap alcoholic high that it was – much more than the one shown with an SP GS-2 on a more conventional bottle.
Bakersfield swill for the masses, just north of Tehachapi. I’ll stick to Railyard Ale and the the other barleypops that us inland heathen consume. (80% of the wine produced in the county is consumed by 20% of the population on the coasts)
http://www.wynkoop.com/tastes_beer.html (hey, it’s the mayor’s brewery)
Railroad themed whine is plentiful; railroad themed wine is rare.
Dave Nelson