Re: Confused by RMC review of Accurail plug+sliding door box car
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Dennis,
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As far as I can tell all of the BC-50-10's received the new Automated Rail Way scheme with the large full color shield. UP stopped using yellow lettering in 1961 or early 1962. The BC-50-11's and -12's received yellow paint because they also received cushioning and that was the standard for cushioned cars from that time. Tim O'Connor
That's because our webmaster picked up the "Built 1947" from the builder's badge stencil on the car. However, these are rebuildings of older cars. Our lettering scheme is based on a photo of a BC-50-8, I see a magazine tear sheet here in the file of a BC-50-10 and the caption states that it is one of 500 cars rebuilt from the 100,000 series in 1963. These were PS-1's built in 1948 as B-50-40. The cars built in 1947 were B-50-39, and had Dreadnaught ends. Unfortunately, since Metcalf's book doesn't document changes after 1951, I don't have a firm rebuild date, but it's likely early sixties, just eary enough to be painted in the "Be Specific" scheme.
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