Bachmann HO 14911 50' Outside Braced Box Car with FRED, Berlin Mills #266

I’ve bought several of these Bachmann ACF cars with FRED over the years. These FRED cars are a cost-effective way to properly exhibit post-1984 RR operations, since the cabooses, on most all RR, have disappeared, as no longer they were required by law, and EOT device technology has improved as the years went/go by. If a buyer does’t want any particular road-name on Your BMS car as sold, simply change out the complete under frame with a different Bachmann ACF 50’ car, that bears an more suitable road name. I marked my FRED cars with a sliver of reflective tape on the FRED bearing end, and call the model an “ EOT Speciality Car”. I looked at transferring the Bachmann FRED device to different brand of trucks/ bodies ( Athearn ), but thats’ not a good chassis fit. Just use a different Bachmann ACF boxcar with a post-1984 road-name that you like!

That said: the *real* BMS boxcars were built by PC&F. Rapido Trains is soon to produce these cars.
I’d bet that Modeltrainstuff will sell sell the Rapido cars by next year, 2025 !!!