My mother spoke of that, of buying the syrup in drug stores. One use for it was if you had a stomach bug or something; it helped settle your stomach down.

I recall getting such "bugs" in school that resulted in me being sent home. Coca Cola, no ice, and dry toast were to help me feel better until the stomach virus went away.

How many of us may recall this remedy?

In the early 70s I got sick and the doctor ordered a bottle of coke syrup for me. At the time we had a bottling plant in town and I think the drug store still had a lunch counter. Sadly all three are long gone.

I recall the syrup not tasting that great without the carbonated water. It did help.

Not for years, to my knowledge--perhaps Brother Hadder or others can chime in. Indeed, I've seen two generations of GCRY Coke bottles, both with the original GCRY logo (one had a copyright date of 1986, before the RR even opened!) for sale in central Arizona antiques stores for high "collectible" mark-ups, but I have managed to recover two of the first generation from deep in the dirt beside the GCRY in isolated locations!

Well done on that video. Great job on the editing.

When my son Erik was 4 or 5, out of 4 shelves of a hundred railroad books, he would always pull out The Nickel Plate Story and look at its pictures.

I love the way the commercial evokes the old Lionel advertising. The cheesy red-stripe 2-4-2, not so much.

I'm not sure how much longer the Carland elevator has to live.

Aarne Frobom
Silage County, Michigan

"Yep. The bottling line from the Chattanooga plant (first Coca Cola Bottling plant in the world) "


According to what we were told while visiting the Coca Cola museum in Vicksburg Ms. , a distributor in Vicksburg was the first to bottle Coke in a small plant for local use. It became popular enough that the parent company started doing it themselves .
So maybe the above should read the first bottling plant owned by Coca Cola.