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Santa Fe Caboose up for sale at a local Estate Sale.

(no, I don't have a backyard big enough).

#trainspotting

I wonder if anyone would notice this sign in the backyard. #railroads
So many signs
I mean, lots and lots of signs. And railroad stuff. #railroads
If you ever want to open up one of those kitchy Route 66 souvenir shops... Looks like this is the place to go, lol.
Hmm, there are two morse code keys in there. Among other stuff. I imagine the plae is chock full of random stuff.
Ship's wheel? Cowboy hat? Entire gas station replica buliding with gas pumps? Shelled Walnuts sign?
@ai6yr There's an entire White Trash Diorama with rotting motor coach and hobo too.
@W6KME LOL
@W6KME Also Army Man with shells and grenades attached (hopefully inert, lol)

@ai6yr @W6KME

My first legal beer was a Rolling Rock. Lol

@RVLara23 @ai6yr I'm so sorry.

@W6KME @ai6yr

I like Rolling Rock. A nice nostalgia beer. And they put on a helluva Rock festival too.

But alas, it wasn't my choice. It was bought for me.

@RVLara23 @W6KME I've only bought Rolling Rock once in my life. (and I didn't drink any of it). I bought it in the middle of the day, on a bicycle, and the clerk there treated me like I was a problem day drinker and quietly rang me up and let me out the side door of our grocery store ("hey, buddy, you don't have to go out the front entrance... I'll let you out here...") 😂

(It was for slugs, but ended up all consumed by the wood rats)

@ai6yr @RVLara23 Oof, if I had gotten that sort of treatment, I'd have drunk it on the spot without breaking eye contact. Even a Rolling Rock.
AI6YR Ben (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Checked off "bought cheapest beer possible before 130pm and bicycled it home" on the bike tooter achivement list. #BikeTooter (Edit: just for clarity, these are for my slugs, I do have a driver's license and no DUI arrest, I do own a car, and I don't drink beer.)

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@W6KME @ai6yr

I assume they still make it? I don't think I've even seen it anywhere since I left the East Coast.

@RVLara23 @ai6yr Budweiser bought them a couple of decades ago. They make it in Jersey now, while still putting the original brewery address on the label. It's usually the cheapest stuff in the store. Definitely not the beer that Latrobe Brewing brought out in the 1930s.
@W6KME @RVLara23 Actually, I take that back, I did make "beer can chicken" with some of the beer.
@ai6yr @RVLara23 Wow, I actually think I remember that from Twitter posts.

@W6KME @ai6yr

Interesting. Well, that explains a lot.

@RVLara23 @W6KME @ai6yr ain't made in old Latrobe anymore
@ai6yr @RVLara23 @W6KME It is actually a nice lager. Can’t believe you wasted it on slugs and wood rats. Although if you have ever seen LaTrobe PA, you might wonder where exactly the mountain springs are. 🤣
@CavedaleRhones @ai6yr @RVLara23 It hasn't been brewed there in quite some time. Possibly after someone pointed out there weren't any springs?
@ai6yr @RVLara23 @W6KME In college, the folks in the apartment next to us were all geology majors. They had "rock" parties. The puns never stopped. It was the only beer they had.
@RVLara23 @W6KME @ai6yr Rolling Rock in the tall bar bottles was excellent (fresh!). RR in cans were absolutely awful. RR in 12oz short bottles was drinkable if ice cold, but awful if warm.
I haven't had a drop after it was sold and stopped bottling in Latrobe. 33. #rollingrock #33

@cshishido @W6KME @ai6yr

Only bottles for me. Never had it in a can.

@RVLara23 @cshishido @ai6yr I'm a definite beer elitist. We won't talk about how much Brew 102 I may have consumed.

@W6KME @cshishido @ai6yr

No idea what that is but holy hell there's so many micro brews these days we all probably have regional gems all around us.

@RVLara23 @cshishido @ai6yr To call it a gem or a microbrew is a disservice to all beer.

When I was in college, in the Los Angeles area you could get a six pack of talls for a buck. It was brewed in a stinky brick brewery downtown, surrounded on three side by freeways clogged with the best of LA's historic smoke-producing behemoths and trucks. The dominant flavor was exhaust, with a touch of the aluminum can.

It was awful. But did I mention it was a buck for a six pack of talls?

@W6KME @RVLara23 @cshishido @ai6yr thank you for this description! I always thought it tasted like the liquid you get from squeezing out sweaty gym socks 🤢
@curiousrobot @RVLara23 @cshishido @ai6yr But hey, it WAS just a buck for a six pack of talls...
@W6KME @RVLara23 @cshishido @ai6yr the old PBR brewery that's now an artist collective?