Excerpt from Model Railroader
From the December 1997 issue of Model Railroader, page 174:
I'd like to add a few Railway Express Agency refrigerator cars to my passenger trains. How can I model these cars in HO scale, and what paint and decals can you suggest? -- Allen Norman, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Railway Express Agency was the steam-era equivalent of today's United Parcel Service. REA was formed in 1929 and REA cars were common sights on intercity passenger trains through 1970 when the company got out of the rail express business.
REA operated a large fleet of head-end cars. The car shown here [omitted, ed.] was from the 6100-6599 series of steel, 50-foot cars built in 1948.
Most REA cars were painted green (use Polly Scale Dark Green) with black trucks and the red diamond logo. Some of the 1948 cars were painted in a short-lived silver with green stripes scheme designed to match aluminum passenger cars. Microscale set no. 87-1010 has the lettering you need. -- Marty McGuirk, associate editor
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