MODS lock if improper. Just drove in to Denver from Calif. to drink a beer at the Coors plant,take the tour & also check out N scale supply,but they are no longer here in the brick & mortor! bummer! Did I miss something? Looked in my N scale mag turned to page 11 from the advertisers index and they were missing there also. I guess they are all internet sale now? So here I set in the lobby of my hotel just down the street from an empty store waiting for the Coors tours to open tomorrow, Did I tell you its snowing like crazy here since last night? Im from california where the only snow comes from my freezer. So hopfully I will find something here that is open that I can get to. (My Chevy Avalanche looks like its been hit by an Avalanche).LOL
Well since you are in Denver make sure and check out Caboose hobbies. I think they are on Broadway. It should be listed in N Scale magazine for an address. Trust me you won't be disappointed!
Snow is nature's way of telling us to stock up on modeling supplies (including beer, if that's part of your modeling ritual like it is mine) and prepare to hunker down to a winter of trains and layout improvements. Like most Western religions, model railroading begins with a "birth" event around the time of the winter solstice, when, according to tradition, trains magically appear beneath trees to usher children into our world, from which the lucky ones never leave. The rest of the winter is spent improving upon this blessed event, until springtime releases us from the basement (think roots and seeds) to once again let us frolic in the sunshine.
Caboose is at 500 South Broadway. Take I-70 to I-25 and take I-25 South to the Broadway exit. Turn Left onto Broadway, and go under I-25. Just past the I-25 bridge, Broadway splits and becomes Lincoln north. Go north to Virginia Ave (about 8 blocks) and turn left. Caboose is on the corner of Broadway & Virginia. It is a great way to spend a snowy day in Denver, been there, do it lots!! If you want good beer, come up to Ft Collins and hit all our micro-breweries! Boulder has a bunch too! I can't tell you what we call Coors on the board, not G rated!
Caboose hobbies is fun on a cold day. We have better beers here too, lots of micro breweries with tasting rooms where you can get some good food too. With todays snow the colorado railroad museum may not be so fun.
Isn't it Ft Collins that has an old UP depot that is now a brew house? I seem to remember eating lunch there one time when visiting my sister and there was 75 beers on tap! Too bad I couldn't try them all.
You are correct, the UP depot has been a home to resturants. I believe it has changed hands (again) and I am not sure about what they have any longer. For you C&S fans, the old C&S depot in Loveland, CO (about 10 miles south) is also a resturant. It is right on the BNSF main North South line, so plenty of traffic by there. As for the Colorado Railroad Musuem, it would be a cold day to walk around the yard! However, this weekend they have their Trick or Treat Trains weekend!
Back in the late 70's & early 80's, it cost us here in NJ $20.00 a 6 pack for Coors Banquet. That was before Coors was available east of the Mississippi. Now I can get the beer anytime.:thumbs_up: ps, I use to be in Fontana once a month when I owned trucks. TSA & Thermo King were my hang outs.
I always thought that tale was just part of the story line for "Smokey and the Bandit." Why was Coors illegal east of the Mississippi?
I heard it was because it was not pausturized. Back in those days it was kept cold, never sitting out
Nah, Coors probably hadn't paid Joisey for "protection".....Sorry Mike, being born in New Yawk, I just had to say it. :tb-biggrin:
A nutter New Yawker, I'm from Rachester, the home of Genny Creme Ale! I wouldn't drive across the street for that crap! How about some Utica Club?
It was not illegal, just unavailable. Coors made a big deal about not being pasteurized and only "cold filtered" to remove the yeast. It had to be kept cold or it would go bad. They had a limited distribution and you could not even get it in Texas. However all the good old boys would bring a trunk full back every time they visited Colorado. Of course it got warm and spoiled. I did not know what it was supposed to taste like until I visited Colorado in 1972 to ride the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge between Durango and Silverton.
CUTE, LOL!!!! Russ is right. Coors just didn't distribute the beer east. They did eventually shipped the beer in reefers(trucks, then trains)to a refrigerated warehouse(Hall's) in Edison,N.J.
Well I hit caboose hobby's and wow what a store! left a lot of my vacation $ there. Will hit the museum tomorrow, then across the tracks for the beer I grew up on. I only drink a local beer now"hanger 24" from Redlands. Talking about Thermoking in Fontana I did all the rebuilt motors for the reefers from 1978 through 1989. Still call Fontucky home. But............I would still like to know what happened to N Scale supply?
Welcome to my neighborhood!!!!!!! To bad I have to work tomorrow or I would join you. I lived in Golden for several years while attending CSM so it was great to go a get a cold one directly at the plant for FREE! Still today I spend many a $$$ at my LHS you visited and the CRRM where I'm a Life Time member. N-Scale Supply closed up their physical store awhile back and basically run the operation from their basement / garage if I recall avoiding the overhead costs of a physical store. Most of their business was online so it just made business since to them to get rid of the cost of having a store that wasn't really needed any more.
THX Darren & all, spent the morning at the museum stomping through the snow & mudd, had a blast. "RAN" the Coors switcher at the museum(dont seem to go very far). Then went across to the Coors plant FREE BEER!!!! even took the tour, had a great day. Now down to the Royal Gorge Route RR tomorrow, hope we can get on, only one train a day @12;30.
A perfect way to top the trip would to come to Ft.Collins and help me cut all the broken limbs from my trees. No working on the railroad this weekend. Glad you had a good trip!
