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Regular poster 190 posts Steve Watson SteveWatson Regular poster 190 posts
Steve Watson SteveWatson

First post, just to see if anyone actually reads this....

OK, some content just so I don't look like a pathetic attention-seeker. Here's a Mail Pouch barn we found down a rural highway in eastern Kentucky, back in August:

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A little Googling informs me that there are still quite a few of these around -- but not in my part of the world (southern Ontario) and this is the first one I've seen in the wild (as opposed to pictures of a model on someone's layout).

 
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BlueHillsCPR
BlueHillsCPR

Lots of peeps reading!

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By SteveWatson - Posted on 15 February 2010

First post, just to see if anyone actually reads this....

Steve,

Lots of people reading the forums here all the time.  Your title of "testing testing" may cause some to not bother to look to see what you posted though as many threads named "test" etc. contain zero content.  A better title would help draw attention, IMO.  Welcome to the forum!
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Bullitt Active Member 52 posts
Bullitt

Interesting...

What's funny is the tobacco barn being advertised for sale as an Amish Barn.

Josh
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feldman718 Prolific poster 1,358 posts
feldman718

And the diference between...

And the difference between an Amish barn and a tobacco barn would be? Not having been brought up on a farm I couldn't tell the difference, I realize that there would be a difference in the decoration outside.

Irv
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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,307 posts
Rio Grande Dan

Welcome Steve

We Read everything some may skip the test posts but most of our regular crew read everything.

The Tobacco Barn:

I live in Northern Virginia and during the spring and fall my wife and I take road trips around Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as Virginia. Myself I'm in search of good Hobby shops and My Wife is always looking for antique stores and we both like the site seeing. I hadn't even thought about the many old Barns we see and I do mean many that have some kind of advertisement on them and I've seen 3 or 4 with the Mail Pouch Tobacco painted on them. I really need to take my camera with me on these trips as Mail Pouch is only one of the many adds on these barns. I also see old broken down unused for years Railroad Freight & passenger stations and many whistle stops that may or may not still be used.

Anyway Welcome again to Our forums and please down load the first four issues of Model Railroad Hobbiest Magazine and spend some tine reading the best new Model Railroad Magazine on Planet Earth.

Rio Grande Dan

Rio Grande Dan
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Scarpia Prolific poster 2,152 posts
Scarpia

Tabacco Barns

Tabacco Barns also don't have windows; but instead have side panels that open up to allow air to circulate and dry the product. See below.

Tabacco Barn, Hadley Mass.

used without permission from http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/mange/mange1.htm#local
HO, early transition erahttp://www.garbo.org/MRRlocal time PST
On30, circa 1900  

 
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Russ Bellinis Prolific poster 3,335 posts
Russ Bellinis

Irv, it's not really a tobacco barn.

It is just a barn advertising Mail Pouch tobacco.  I think the funny thing about it being advertised as an "Amish Barn," is that the Amish religious sect would not use or advocate the use of tobacco.  I lived in upstate New York in the early 1970's and my wife's family lived on Long Island at the time, so we used to drive through Amish country quite often on the way to visit her relatives.  It was a long time ago, but I don't remember ever seeing advertising on any of their buildings.
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