Coors Light Train

Saying for the day:Beer is proof that God loves us. -- Ben Franklin
I don’t drink beer but I have fallen in love with Coors Light. I don’t care about the beer but MTH makes the most marvelous O scale train called the Coors Silver Bullet. It has the most fantastic futuristic engine that looks a bit like a bullet train. The finish is a bright chrome on plastic that looks like a Coors can. It has all the right sounds built in so that when it starts up it sounds like the winding up of a jet turbine. Once it is running it sounds like a steam locomotive. It is spectacular. Now the cars are different from any model railroad cars I have ever seen. They have that same Coors finish. When the train is stopped and the button pushed to open a door on the refrigerator car filled with Coors beer, of course, a blue light comes on and smoke pours out. It looks like air blowing over a frosty cold object. The effect is great.


The only problem is it costs $499 . This is slightly over my train budget.
So I am waiting for Coors to have a contest where you buy a six pack and you could win the train. Then I might by a couple of six packs. My two sons drink beer.
Early next month I plan on going to the big train show in Milwaukee and if I’m lucky they will have one operating there. I know MTH will have a booth. I might even have the tracks in downstairs by then. I really don’t need new glasses and my family can do without Christmas gifts. Who knows!

@@@@ News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life goes on.–It is still zero in Pigeon Falls while the rest of the UP goes through a heat wave, one of the hottest Octobers on record. It snowed again this morning, just a light dusting. Some people are beginning to think this is the way it will always be.
The town has set up the big Christmas tree next to the gazebo . That is to say they have put lights on it and hung those giant candy canes. It gives a festive note to the town square. With people coming in from all over to snow mobile they want them to feel welcome.
The friendly dragon, big white rabbit, and poltergeist have all been strangely silent. It’s possible they don’t like zero degree weather.
Nancy is so busy she put in an extra table. Her soup is the best in town and so is her coffee. But now she can’t talk to everybody and really doesn’t have the time for decent gossip. She’s making money but not having fun and would be glad to see the cold weather end. She would be happy with half of the eighty degree temperatures the rest of the Up had.
As of this morning that are still only two men planning on going to Marquette to take on lightning woman. This is not the bravest community in the world. Of course there are those like Eino who say all this stuff from Petrovich is nonsense. They need to find the real reason for the weather in order to change it. Mrs. Trumble says she thinks it’s nonsense also but if standing on her head and singing the Pigeon Falls song had the slightest chance of ending this weather she would do it. She could to. She is in great shape for an old lady.
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I had a good day. My oxygen level hit the bottom of the normal range in the morning which for me is really good. Betty and I continued trying to put the living/dining room area in order. I think it will take one more day. We lost some time walking the dog and going to get my hearing aid adjusted. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA