Re: (erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #16

[crnflks_@_aol.com]

 Don't recall seeing any mention of BCK 40-footer re-stenciled for E-L that was offered by Kadee in 2016 for the ELHS as a suitable model.  Any reason why?

Bruce S.

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Schuyler...

Yes, I think Branchline did an excellent job with their line of 40' box cars.  I was very pleased when Atlas bought the tooling in order to keep them in production.  Like you say, the Atlas car is just about "spot on."

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    On Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:21 PM, Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net> wrote:
 

 The Atlas model appears to be quite accurate, even to the 5/6/6 Youngstown
door.

Schuyler

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From: Patrick Moore [mailto:pat.moore_@_att.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 8:42 PM
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Subject: (erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #16


List...

As I was running through the Hot 100, some of you might have been waiting
and wondering where the Buffalo Creek boxcar fleet might have fit in.
Buffalo Creek 40' box cars seemed to be everywhere on the EL back in the
day, at least on lines east of Buffalo.  As it turns out, the lack of BCK
boxcars in the Hot 100 was a consequence of how I set up the list.  The BCK
fleet was roughly evenly divided between cars built by Pullman-Standard and
cars built by ACF, with two large orders for each builder, but in the
Equipment Register they were broken up into different groups.  As a result,
none of the groups of BCK boxcars were represented by enough cars (i.e. 30
or more) to appear by themselves in the Hot 100.  However, upon combining
groups, they do.  The ACF-built cars were listed under the number series
1502 - 1999 and 2502 - 2999, which had 35 examples when grouped together,
enough to place this freight car in the 82 - 86 range in the Hot 100. If we
also consider ACF-built ca!
 rs that were upgraded and reclassified XF, in the number series 3519 - 3919
and 4500 - 4998, that number swells to 43 examples, which would place this
car in the 64 - 67 range.  The XF cars were visually identical, except had
their running boards removed and the large XF-Food Loading Only lettering
applied.

Picture...
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-b/bck2744jpa.jpg

Locations...
Systemwide. Any consignee that might need bagged flour or animal feed.

Model...
Atlas recently announced a run of their Postwar 40' boxcars with a 7' door
opening (ex-Branchline Trains tooling) which included a Buffalo Creek car.
http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho40postwarbc3.htm


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