Coors did NOT have to be kept refrigerated -- the brewery just wanted it kept cool. " Brewed cold - shipped cold - delivered cold " was part of Coors' advertising for years. Several railroads ( Espee,
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Those cars derailed many, many moons ago, What was left is long gone. I rode over that line a few times (was going to teach grade braking) and asked the officer that was riding with us about it.
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My Pennsylvania relatives used to RAVE about Coors beer, probably due to its' mythical status East of the Mississippi River at the time. They also used to rave over the Taco Bell restaurant in Scranto
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On my way to Red Rocks Amphitheater in early August, I stopped at the Coors factory for a tour. The lady at the parking lot entrance told us that there was an hour and a half wait. My reply was how
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Do pissOrama derales that reefer me thinks they has cendent wit AmTK car to for intranet search I do whim I member at OERM they mad caus we got calombine SDAZE for trade of SD9
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When I lived in Colorado Springs I sent a can of COORS lite the public annalist. The reply said "Dear Sir your horse has diabetes".
Rasputin, who would rather drink Newcastle Brown Ale
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Still full 50-year-old cans of train wreck beer. Carrizo Gorge.
Drink at your own risk.
"Ken Kramer's About San Diego - The Coors Beer Train Wreck!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmGADyLcDq0
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First law of railfanning, there will always be plenty of action, except where you are.....
Via I-8 you hit the UP in Yuma which has the depot, the yard, the Yuma territorial prison (right next to t
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www.sandiegoreader.com%2Fnews%2F2017%2Ffeb%2F03%2Fticker-mts-responds-baja-rail-charges%2F
Another interesting article about the travails of the Pacific Imperial Railroad! Unfortunately it only goe
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Circa 2000 USG began an expansion program at Plaster City. A new mainline bypass was built to the south of the former SDAE yard, and the plant expansion was built engulfing the former yard and across
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He gave me a tour when. The shay pulled the Miramar Chief.
SP5103 Wrote:
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> Jim Lundquist never "ran" the group, though he was
> president
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I was on board the nudist train, quite an experience...
MTS (formerly MTDB) owns the San Diego & Arizona Eastern and their contract operator is Pacific Imperial Railroad.
Baja Rail asked if PIR
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Jim Lundquist never "ran" the group, though he was president in the 1990s and again after the divorce from Carrizo Gorge Railway. He is still active, being the Museum Services officer which I believe
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Berg Wrote:
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> I thought the track's owner (MTDB) had embargoed
> the line with a construction exemption for
> you-know-who.
I don't. Who?
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Interesting video posted of a freight over the Carrizo Gorge in San Diego. Is this a work train from Pacific Imperial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpzGPL47-hQ
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Thoughts on recent topics:
NWP:
Bryan Whipple was an SP man, so his experience showed basically he could rebuild the NWP north end, yes? No; Whipple thought that State Support through predecess
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mook Wrote:
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> And no, this doesn't appear to have anything to do
> with HSR, Mexican port access, or resurrection of
> the SD&AE. If the rai
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The railroad through Carrizo Gorge never made
a dime of profit., I saw a documentary on this RR
recently, and it showed that the only reason
"the impossible railroad" ever got built was
because
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How does the Toyota factory south of Tijuana get their trucks and cars on railroad auto racks? Do they load them at the plant or do they truck them over the border and load them in San Diego? If Toy
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