A study in early steel boxcars

Good stuff guys!!!

John, did you print the lines and details on the cardstock or draw them?

BradA posted:

i have been fortunate to accrue some exquisite pacific limited NYC models.   Rick leach did wonderful decals and thanks to tru color great shades exist to paint these models.    I tend to use a variety of colors on the interior, underbody and roofs.    Some weathering prior to decals is also done.   Enjoy

Hmmm looks a lot like the Pac Limited NYC Box cars in my RR yard (closet) right now. 

Robbie,

imthought this might offer a little encouragement for your stash of cars.

BradA posted:

Robbie,

imthought this might offer a little encouragement for your stash of cars.

Brad,

I'm blessed, the newest ones to roll into my shops have a very good/accurate paint and weathering job.  I guess I need to look for a few more for the paint shop, lol !

Wow. I Like the Michigan Central car.

J. Daddy---which one?

J Daddy posted:

Wow. I Like the Michigan Central car.

Yeah, a little too modern for me but I think I might be able to bend space/time enough to permit it on my track....

BradA posted:

J. Daddy---which one?

 

This one!!!

Nicely done. Thanks for posting these photos.

I see K brakes on that one.

Rule292 posted:

I see K brakes on that one.

Yea; just send that one over to me............

This PSC model is based on the c&o/ pere Marquette prototype.   However NYC had virtually the same car.  Decals were custom made for the car.

Let's resuscitate this thread...  dusting off a few Pacific Limited NYC cars tonight.  

First up we have the modernized PL-2150 New York Central 40' USRA box car modernized with a Standard Railway Co. Rectangular Panel roof.   Next to it we have a PL-4450 NYC car with the post-WWII SRECo Diagonal Panel roof.

These are certainly some of the nicest O scale brass cars done.

Pat did automotive cars with both the original Camel/Gilroy door and the Youngstown door.  Both were done in both AB and K brakes.   Since my Youngstown door and my K brake cars are unpainted, let's have a look at one of the painted Camel-Gilroy door cars.

Note the height difference between the PL-2500 9'4" inside height auto car and the PL-1600 standard 8'7" boxcar

Last but not least for the evening we have the lousy iPhone picture (ummm, lousy iPhone Photographer) of the NYC cars done for US Steel's cement railroads the PL-1550 Hannibal Connecting Railroad and the PL-1500 Northampton and Bath.   These cars were similar but had changes to the roping staples, which were replaced by welded plates and in the case of the N&B the car had door reinforcements and AB Brake pipe bracket shields.

The HCRR is a sweetie, it's also suitable for the Universal Atlas Cement Co cars as well as HCRR and for several N&B cars that did not have the door replacement

The N&B version is pretty unique.  The N&B had over 200 of these and in the days when most cement was shipped bagged they were seen roaming freely, including in Ohio with a load of washing machines!

http://www.canadasouthern.com/...-consists-072347.htm

Oops wrong place... not steel but wood box cars!

Nice !!

jim pastorius posted:

Nice !!

If only Pat had lived long enough to do PRR X25 and X29 cars in the same depth as the NYC USRA cars we would have probably 70 per cent of the pre-WW II steel boxcars done in brass.  Not a bad selection for us geezers.

When I hit the lottery I'm doing the ARA 1923/X29 family of cars. 

Cmon, Robbie. $100,000 will cover a run of them.

You can tell a Clemons paint job.   Nice models!

That SP model needs some help.

Here is one I did at lunch today

At one time there was a small storage track/yard at Sewickley, Pa. on the NS main line and a PRR MoW X29 box car sat there.  They cleaned all that place up and the box car  disappeared. Should have been saved.