Katzhagen - Archive - February 2016


The thirst's end - freight cars loaeded with beer


It had been a wish to equip the Calanda cars with an appropriate load since a long time. But this turned out to be an expensive undertaking given the number of crates needed. A lucky coincidence bestowed a bargain offer on me...

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OMG ! Soooo many crates ...


... and none of them has a crown cap ! Work ahead...




Mass production - Glueing in the bottle blocks and mounting the crates onto palettes



Bottled and ready for shipment...



3840 bottles in 192 crates on 8 palettes - just in this car ... and each of the (in total visible 3200) crown caps painted by hand.



The Preiser family's next event does not need to be canceled...



The Calanda container car had been "fueled" as well



A view through the magnifying glass from the side...


... and from the face




Completion of another sliding wall car showing ads of Swiss mineral wells



Loading and unloading is not completely automated, yet...


No matter how much fun it was to load these cars - the naxt Haik will get a different load !


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