Re: [CBQ] Cream compartments

["cvlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

Never having seen anything except the builders photos of the cars both with and 
without the "Cream Door", I have no idea what the idea was behind them.
I'm not sure what the arrangement was for the "compartment" with the ice 
bunker, air circulation within the car, etc...

I am looking at a 1950 OER and BREX shows passenger refrigerator cars 300-399 
(total of 29 cars) with an outside length of 51'=11".   Cars 304, 321 have very 
slightly different interior dimensions. 

The 1940 OER is more illuminating; it shows cars 300 to 329 for a total of 30 
cars; all listed together with no notes that might sort them out.  It seems to 
me I once knew which cars had Cream Doors and which didn't; why or how I am not 
sure at this time.

 BREX 300 is conventional; BREX 326 has the "Cream Compartment" according to 
builders photos taken of the same side of both cars.  The 326 was built at 
Plattsmouth July 1937.  The extra door seems to be set flush with the inside 
wall of the ice bunker and there is nothing different otherwise between the two 
cars other than a the doors and stirrup steps to access them.

The HO model may have just been an economy move to use the same side rather 
than have to produce two.   

Charlie Vlk

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