Comments on: Busch Model Train Accesories

By: Model Railway Accessories

Model Railway Accessories — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:41:16 +0000

Heh, makes me want to dig out my old railway stuff and build a new layout, just to include these accessories

By: J

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:02:33 +0000

Stonch, simmer down. The irony was not simply that they had a common German name, but that they chose to have a beer garden, hop farm and barley farm in their product line and their name is Busch, who has an actual hop farm, the Busch Hop Farm, in the Hallertau region of Bavaria. We actually visited the Busch Hop Farm a few days before, so I’m sure it was on my mind. Do you really think that the German Busch company wasn’t aware of the beer company? They may be based on my fair shores, but they’re a global company. We now live in a world of irony, state-centric thinking is passe.

By: Keith Brainard

Keith Brainard — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:59:38 +0000

This really is too cool. It makes me want to get a whole HO setup just so I can have the hops and barley gardens in there. Maybe I can incorporate them into the kids’ dollhouse or something…

I think we in America can find the irony that as many hops as are in that hopyard would last our dominatrix Anheuser-Busch about fifty years, perhaps the barley as well. Where are the rice paddies? This whole thing must have nothing to do with A-B.

Finally, the happy carouser is cool, but you gotta love that Oktoberfest-style beer server, with two handsfull (or is it handfulls?) of mugs. Also, can you zoom in further on the bines? Are those Tettnangers or what?

By: Stonch

Stonch — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:18 +0000

This is great. When I was little my dad built a huge model railway in our spare room. Me and my brother adored it. It was a sad day indeed when my mum made him break it up. Cheers for posting it.

By: Stonch

Stonch — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:46:02 +0000

This is great. When I was little my dad built a huge model railway in our spare room. Me and my brother adored it. It was a sad day indeed when my mum made him break it up. Cheers for posting it.

However I am going to pull you up on this statement:

“there were pictured accessories by a German company called, with no irony, Busch ”

arrgggh! American-centicism unbound! As if the use of a Germanic surname as a company name would in any circumstances be an ironic reference to a US brewer!!