Bar serves drinks on toy train set

Boy, how many drinks could we order?

There's a bar in Seattle we used to drink at called The Nite Light that had a hollow bar with clear plexiglass top and inside was an N scale layout...the two old ladies who tended bar their seemed more annoyed by it but would fire it up whenever I went in to have a quick whiskey -- it was across the street from the bar my old band used to play at frequently.

Brian

That would be fun!!

Fridays in York might want to try that.

The big money must be in the electronics. I wish we had one of these bars in my area but would not get any work done at home.

TEX
Steve

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Originally posted by Lackawanna1223:
There's a bar in Seattle we used to drink at called The Nite Light that had a hollow bar with clear plexiglass top and inside was an N scale layout...the two old ladies who tended bar their seemed more annoyed by it but would fire it up whenever I went in to have a quick whiskey -- it was across the street from the bar my old band used to play at frequently.

Brian

the iron horse saloon in seattle used to do that also, i think it closed in the 90's.

30 years ago, I remember a small restaurant in Kansas City Kansas that used an overhead tracked mechanism to deliver lunch baskets to your table. It travelled along the wall, stopped overhead and lowered the items to where you could lift them off while you were seated at your booth.

Tres cool!

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Originally posted by Ace:
30 years ago, I remember a small restaurant in Kansas City Kansas that used an overhead tracked mechanism (a sort of monorail) to deliver lunch baskets to your table. It travelled along the wall, stopped overhead and lowered the items to where you could lift them off while you were seated at your booth.

Fritz's Railroad Restaurant. I've eaten at the one at Crown Center. Food was just OK, but a fun experience. There is a video on the web site that shows the food delivery in action.

YES !!! Thanks for remembering that for me !!!

Hi out there; In the mid 90's there was a Japanese eating/drinking establishment south of MCAS Futenma, Okinawa. You would make a sharp left down the hill out the main gate,(not Hwy 58, but the small lane that ran next to it "Suicide alley") go about 1.5 K (to Naha) and it was on the left. The owner would cook noodles and the like in the kitchen and the food would go up to the dining room in a Space Shuttle model with opening cargo bays. It worked like a motorized dumbwaiter. A waitress would then transfer the food and/or drinks to flat cars ("G" scale). An engine would then deliver your order to your booth or table through a series of sidings. Pretty cool. It reminded me of the Choo-Choo in Desplaines Ill, except it had Beer and Yakisoba! Everyone I tell this story to thinks I'm crazy, except for all the Marines that used to go there with me. Good times were had by all, and nothing ever got smashed or broken up because of the respect we had for the amazing work the owner had put into the layout.

Recall the Iron Horse in Seattle did they not deliver burgers and drinks on the train it was near the Amtrak station many years back?
Also a place in Banff Alberta that does this with a simple G scale train!

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Originally posted by Ace:
YES !!! Thanks for remembering that for me !!!

Glad I could help.

Ah! Two of my favorite pastimes!

Loved it. Great use of a toy train system. While I am at it, "Make mine a short beer." In honor of the Late WC Fields, who never met a drink he didn't like.

Many thanks,

Billy C

WOW THAT WAS AWESOME
THANKS FOR POSTING

ALEX

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Fridays in York might want to try that.

We sure could keep those little trains busy!

I think theres a place in WI DElls that servs food or drinks with model trains but im not sure I know I seen one somewhere eh.

"Booze is swell with Lionel"...Reggie van Gleason III

Let us not forget the Choo Choo Restaurant, 600 Lee Street, Des Plaines, IL. There you can have your burgers and fries arrive by Lionel O Gauge.

Farmer Bill,

    Now that is a great original idea, back in the early 70's I saw something similar in Germany, but it was an outside garden type set up.  The inside layout that delivers drinks, to the tables is fantasic.  I am not a Bar type kind of person, out grew it long ago, but man I would visit this kind of Bar, when ever I was in the area.

 

PCRR/Dave

Thats pretty neat. Thanks, Farmer Bill.

Scotch train!

WOW what a cool place and set up!

That is very cool. 

Woody

That is seriously cool.

I'd have a drinking problem for sure.

 

Bob

Way cool - THANKS for sharing! 

Oh! ...And away we go!

Reggie Van Gleason III