Standerd? G? or it’s own? Don’t even know if they can run on anything. Also how many years has Jim Beam been doing this? 1960s?
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If you’re speaking of the ceramic Jim Beam decanter cars I’d say they’re closest to G Scale, but they’re static display collectibles and were never meant to be run on model railroads of any kind.
However, if you’re looking for “adult beverage” cars to run on your layout if it’s O Gauge Lionel did put out some theme cars for the same at one time. Here’s some information, scroll down to “Part 3 The Spirit Cars.”
https://www.trainz.com/pages/guide-to-lionels-refrigerator-cars
I hope that some manufacturer will put out some spirits cars again. They do have beer cars after all. I’m willing to bet that most o gauge operators are over 21 years of age.
To me from my memory of having them, they’re about 1/2 again as big as G scale. comparing them to g scale is like comparing O to standard gauge or even better HO to O
Anything’s possible. Even though (according to the trainz.com article) ads for alcoholic beverages aren’t allowed to be put on toys the average retail price of a lot of high-end O Gauge train cars nowadays hardly qualifies them to be classified as “toys.”
At any rate the beer cars I’ve seen done in the past several years have all been replicas of the old-time billboard reefers from the early 20th Century so maybe that gets the makers of O Gauge cars around the prohibition? I’ve got a reference work on billboard reefers and there’s no spirit reefers in it, most likely because spirits don’t need refrigeration, so maybe that’s why we don’t see any spirit cars?
Lionel also put out a series of tobacco cars in the MPC era as well, and except for an MTH Marsh-Whiting cigar car I haven’t seen any new tobacco cars either.
Just for fun, here’s a reference page from Tandem Associates. Scroll down to “The Inebriated Express.”
https://www.tandem-associates.com/modernlionelrules02.htm
For what it’s worth I don’t think there’s a shortage of those original MPC spirit cars, they seem pretty common (or common enough) at a lot of the train shows I go to.
I did see that some track came with these Jim Beam Decantour sets and did hook together as there was coupllers as well
I also saw on the same page that there was a Tobbaco Express. My freinds at the cigar shop would love a whole train set of these.
They turn up at train shows, sometimes as individual cars, sometimes as a complete set. Keep your eyes open and your fingers crossed!