Hi all,
Before ordering something wrong or arranging my kit-bashed brewery's* doors in such a way, i concluded-decided that 50' insulated boxcars should be ideal for outgoing loads of beer in a mid-sixties setting. On the bottling plant of my brewery with a minor alteration, the warehouse doors match up perfectly to 3x 50' cars (6 cars total in two parallel tracks). So based on this and the relevant research i have done i am settled on using 50' insulated cars (SFRB type, bunkerless) for outgoing loads of bottled/canned beer. (i might add some 50' mechanical refrigerator cars at some point for draft beer and use on occasion plain slide door boxcars for short-distance deliveries).
I am thinking of using the 5800** series Accurail plug-door insulated boxcars as a basis for SFRB series plug door insulated cars for beer transport in a mid-sixties theme. The idea is to add roofwalks, high ladders, move the brake wheel in the upper position and make modifications to the lower part (under-frame/lower-frame) of the car depending on the RR- class i intend to depict (ie rr57 vs rr64 or rr73 etc...), as well as adding up required details based on photographic references.
It all looks ok to my eyes but i would like to double check what i have read/concluded and thus i would very much appreciate your opinion on this.
*I have progressed in the brewery's construction in the last month and hope to take some decent pictures in the next few days in order to post a relevant thread.
**The sides of the various classes as well as car-ends and roofs look almost the same to my eyes (8 panels on each side of the door etc...) and appear to be a close match to the 5800 series Accurail cars.
Many thanks for your input/help
Yannis
Before ordering something wrong or arranging my kit-bashed brewery's* doors in such a way, i concluded-decided that 50' insulated boxcars should be ideal for outgoing loads of beer in a mid-sixties setting. On the bottling plant of my brewery with a minor alteration, the warehouse doors match up perfectly to 3x 50' cars (6 cars total in two parallel tracks). So based on this and the relevant research i have done i am settled on using 50' insulated cars (SFRB type, bunkerless) for outgoing loads of bottled/canned beer. (i might add some 50' mechanical refrigerator cars at some point for draft beer and use on occasion plain slide door boxcars for short-distance deliveries).
I am thinking of using the 5800** series Accurail plug-door insulated boxcars as a basis for SFRB series plug door insulated cars for beer transport in a mid-sixties theme. The idea is to add roofwalks, high ladders, move the brake wheel in the upper position and make modifications to the lower part (under-frame/lower-frame) of the car depending on the RR- class i intend to depict (ie rr57 vs rr64 or rr73 etc...), as well as adding up required details based on photographic references.
It all looks ok to my eyes but i would like to double check what i have read/concluded and thus i would very much appreciate your opinion on this.
*I have progressed in the brewery's construction in the last month and hope to take some decent pictures in the next few days in order to post a relevant thread.
**The sides of the various classes as well as car-ends and roofs look almost the same to my eyes (8 panels on each side of the door etc...) and appear to be a close match to the 5800 series Accurail cars.
Many thanks for your input/help
Yannis
