[RITSlist] RI Silver boxcars

[tbrug at aol.com]

 Keevan:

You raise an interesting coincidence.  I can't access the seven or eight aluminum (silver) RI boxcars I own - I just moved and they're still in cardboard boxes - somewhere.  However, I have pondered the HO coincidences on these cars a number of times.

I can't remember all the makers that have run this car - I can only recall Trains Miniature and Bev-Bel, but I know there are more.  

The series of coincidences on the RI aluminum express car number starts with the decal set Champ Decals originally ran in the 60's.  The number they used as "preset" for this car is the same number most of the subsequent models have used. I also seem to recall the very same car number appears on another pullman green version of the RI express cars. Fancy Bev-Bel stealing Champ's original artwork.  Hard to believe, I know.

Bev-Bel compounded the situation on at least one of their cars by printing the lettering on the RI silver express car in green rather than black, which the majority of versions have used. You might want to check your Bev-Bel cars and see which version you have.  

In fact, that raises the question for all the RI experts: which is correct? The black or the green lettering on the aluminum express box car?  Or did they do both?

                                                                                                          Tom Brugman
 

 


 

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In 2006 I acquired an Accurail HO scale silver box car, numbered 20061.  
It had the slogan “Route 
of the ROCKETS”


 


In 
2002 I acquired an Athearn/Bev-Bel car, silver, with the same number and 
slogan.


 


Keevan






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