CSX Palmetto Spur

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Does anyone know of HO palletised beer kegs and gas bottles etc suitable for the modern era?

Plenty of pallet kits or castings available (both wood and plastic), but those aluminum beer kegs - I guess you'd just have to scratch build some. Perhaps some plastic tubing of the correct diameter painted bright silver with some other markings on them would work. They wouldn't be very large in HO scale, so close enough should work just fine. Stacks of pallets at any warehouse type facility is always a nice detail.

Seems really odd that Florida Distributing would be receiving beer in unequipped box cars. It's usually handled in insulated box cars (50ft and/or 60ft). Coors/Miller and Anheuser-Busch all have their own insulated box cars, along with railroad owned assigned cars for that service. At least one Bing view shows four (4) 50ft plug door box cars (probably insulated) on spot there, while another view shows both tracks full of unequipped 50 ft box cars.

Also odd that they'd leave kegs of beer stacked on the loading dock where some enterprising local with a pair of bolt cutters could get his weekly supply of brew late at night! I'm wondering if perhaps these were shipments of either new kegs or empty kegs to be refilled?

I plan on having a beer distributor on my ISL currently under construction, based on a couple that I'm familiar with in this area. I'm using the Exactrail 60ft beer cars along with a few 50ft insulated box cars that would be appropriate for such shipments. Two of my Exactrail cars are stenciled to return empty to Adolph Coors & Son Golden Colorado, so no question about what's loaded in those.