BTS Boxcars

So....I've been busy. But while I was getting on with my life, BTS released their interesting new U.S. Military Railroad house car - a slightly modified version of the arched-roof car they released a few years back. These fill an interesting niche - there aren't many commercially available craftsman kits for freight cars (ore cars excepted) shorter than 28 feet. Rio Grande Models has some nice models and Rem's offers a few thirty footers, but for the most part the turn-of-the-century market has been dominated by the ubiquitous Model Die Casting 36 footers for those with scratchbuilding skills and the Labelle 34 footers for those without them. The arched-roof versions look pretty eastern to me, but the peaked roof versions would look pretty good over a set of Rio Grande Models' "California" style arch bar trucks as Central Pacific equipment.