2016 S Fest details

I love the reefers, but I don't know about this one.  Would have been more excited to see a Sargento Cheese reefer if they were gunna do a Wisconsin business related car.  

Ben

It's a nice looking car and I understand why billboard reefers are a popular choice for event cars.

But frankly, while I do have a small collection of billboard reefers, I got billboard reefered-out some years ago.

Rusty

I like the billboard refers, but I like most cars that are somewhat unique, and this is another one that qualifies in that category.

Ray

I've been toying with the idea of having a car produced for a local St. Louis beer brand but I'm not much of a gambler. With the need for permissions from brand owners (if still active or copyrighted) and the $$$ needed to have the ~250 minimum # of cars produced from MTH it's a pretty high hurdle to take a financial gamble that might fall flat on it's face.

Banjoflyer,  Why not suggest that the St Louis club use that as their next S Fest car, most of the Fest cars do quite well. Are you coming for the S Fest?

Ray

Most Fest, Spree and NASG cars reflect the geographic area of the hosting club. 

Natty Bo originated in Baltimore and may not carry the same feelings of nostalgia in the Midwest as it does out east.  (I never knew Natty Bo even existed until it popped up on the OGR board.)

Rusty

banjoflyer posted:

Rusty Traque posted:

 Natty Bo originated in Baltimore and may not carry the same feelings of nostalgia in the Midwest as it does out east. 

Rusty

Hi Rusty, yeah I know that those Natty Bo reefers had Eastern origins but it seems like the fever for them spread pretty wide as they still carry a premium on Ebay and the like.

SHS did produce a similar car and I have one of those just because  it was available:

 

The car I'd like to see is a beer car from a Belleville, IL brewer from many years ago.

 

 

Never noticed SHS did one.  Just goes to show how little attention I pay to billboard reefers. 

I went through my "reefer madness" period some years ago.  I sold most of them off, both billboards and railroad related.

Rusty

Three weeks after returning from O Scale West PLUS S in California, last week I mailed my registration for Fall S Fest in Wisconsin. Some people wonder why I ride Amtrak to train shows like S Fest when it takes two nights and parts of three days? The main reason is that I can bring along up to 200 pounds of merchandise for sale at no extra fare. That is two checked boxes and two carry-on bags, each at up to 50 pounds. I don't want to even know what an airline would charge for that amount of luggage.

Since I am not an American Flyer collector, my merchandise will consist mainly of American Models, S Scale America and S-Helper Service products, plus a few one-of-a-kind pieces such as a SouthWind brass Vanderbilt oil tender. I've also offered to give a clinic at S Fest on repainting and decaling S rolling stock for commercially-unavailable railroads. In my case I model circa-1980 Mexican railroads, but the audience may be more interested in Chicago Great Western or Green Bay and Western. 

This trip I will probably take the Empire Builder to and from LaCrosse and rent a car from there to Oconomowoc. That is not because of any desire to avoid Milwaukee, but based on the number of Amtrak Guest Reward points I expect to have at the time I book travel.

Gil Hulin