Just received my postcard from the Hamm’s Club announcing the 2010 Fall Hamm’s Club Brewery Show taking place September 18, 2010, from 9am to 3pm. The show occurs annually at the Hamm’s Brewery Parking Lot at 707 Minnehaha Ave E., St. Paul, Minnesota. “Hamm’s Advertising, Cans & General Breweriana!” Check out the Hamm’s Club Web site for official information.
The Hamm’s Brewery was located along the Skally Line and received coal and grain from the railroad. The Bruce Vento Trail now runs along the west side of the brewery where the Skally once was.
My son playing with the extensive wooden railway system at the State Fair Choo Choo Bob's.
Choo Choo Bob’s has a building at the Minnesota State Fair this year. The building is located on Underwood between Dan Patch and and Wright, and children and train fans won’t be disappointed. They have live shows, a gift shop, as well as a large running O Scale layout and a very long (30ft?) wooden railway system that kids can play with. Given that my son was used to the small tables when we go to Choo Choo Bob’s or other area railroad attractions, this was quite the experience as he had the length of an entire wall to move the trains around.
According to their blog they will be open every day of the fair from 8am to 8pm (though we were in there past 8pm last night, sorry!). The fair runs through September 6 (Labor Day).
I also picked up a postcard for the Hennepin Overland Railway Historical Society. They have a model railroad museum located at 2501 East 38th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a “65 foot long by 29 foot wide HO scale model train layout” according to their Web site. I had not heard of them and was delighted to receive information about another railroad display in the Twin Cities area. Hennepin Overland does have a links page with other clubs in the metro area which I will take note of since Google is failing me in that respect.
This is video from around 8am Tuesday, August 10, 2010 and is taken from the Transfer Road/Pierce Butler bridge overlooking the Minnesota Commercial Midway yard. There are walking platforms on both sides of the bridge. I had just missed the Amtrak.
Featured is a locomotive gathering cars (perhaps for the Hugo line?) another locomotive coming into position, and a loader loading gravel into a gondola.
