[RITSlist] RI Silver boxcars

[Kathie and Denis Long]

Hello,

I have an HO silver car.  It is pressed tin, with metal die cast truck
frames & cast NMRA couplers w/cast coupler boxes.  It has wire ladders, and
grabs, and a wood chassis.  Looks like pressed aluminum doors.  It is
#20069, w/'ROUTE OF THE    ROCKETS, and underneath - 'EXPRESS'.

I do not the manufacturer.

Denis

 

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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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From: Kjb80401 at aol.com
To: ritslist at simpson.edu
Sent: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:11 am
Subject: Re: [RITSlist] RI Silver boxcars

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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