Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@metalman posted:

Thanks Walt!   I was born & raised in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and lived 3 blocks from the Baltimore & Ohio Glenwood yard.   The guys at the roundhouse would save their 7oz coke bottles and quart Tom Tucker ginger ale bottles for  my buddy Vince and I.   We'd collect them on Saturday's and cash them in at Frank Lenart's convenience store at the corner of Courtland/Lytle St.   5 cents for the quart and 2 cents for the 7 oz-but we didn't get money,  we would take candy from the jars on the counter.   Great memories I'll never forget.   In 1959 we moved to the suburbs(West Mifflin) and that party was over but a new adventure began watching the Union RR dump the slag cars at the 4 dumps in West Mifflin.

well @metalman, considering I grew up in Port Vue, I'm familiar with the places that you cited.  Agree, great memories.

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

well @metalman, considering I grew up in Port Vue, I'm familiar with the places that you cited.  Agree, great memories.

- walt

Walt and Metalman, I grew up in Valencia on the B&O P&W mainline.  I watched many trains of assorted boxcars pulled by dark blue covered wagons.  K-line refer below.

Don't want to detour this topic, but one final comment to @Mark Boyce - I've lived now in Allison Park for 35 years so I'm familiar with the line.

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'll start us off with a Weaver Missouri Pacific.

On call today, so an early contribution:

Weaver stripped and painted, decals by K4.

Cheers,

Price

Thanks Dave for getting us started for this fine Sunday!   Here are my boxcar offerings for today.  All boxcars shown are Weaver products ( I sure miss Weaver! ) and are weathered by me.

Nothing makes a freight yard scene better than boxcars.  

If memory serves me correctly, this is my only Atlas boxcar.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'll start us off with Lionel Graves Mortuary.

These cars would be perfect for Don Klose’s layout.

Here are 3 new to me D&RGW, Motorcraft Autolite Spark Plugs and Cotter & Company 40th Anniversary True Value.

Have a good Boxcar Sunday

Here's another of the many Pittsburgh related cars that MTH was pumping out at one time.  I was going broke buying them all !  This is the old Gimbel's building in downtown PGH.  It was, and actually still is, a tradition to put it up each holiday season.

-walt

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks Dave for getting us started for this fine Sunday!   Here are my boxcar offerings for today.  All boxcars shown are Weaver products ( I sure miss Weaver! ) and are weathered by me.

Nothing makes a freight yard scene better than boxcars.  

Now this is a cool scene Patrick. Just looking at it displays an energy of hard workers.

Gene

THE GOBLINS ARE GONE BUT IT WILL BE GOBBLE GOBBLE TIME SOON

An MTH car in Guilford white…

A Weaver version of the ubiquitous Susie-Q boxcar…

Finally, a repainted Weaver car in the Monon Hoosier Line scheme…I need to use different doors with this scheme..

Tom

One final pic from my visit to Steamtown back in September… gotta love some D&H!!!

@Genemed posted:

Now this is a cool scene Patrick. Just looking at it displays an energy of hard workers.

Gene

Thanks so much Gene!  Yes, the fellas are certainly gitner done!

Well following pennsyfan's lead, I thought I might post some of my Lionel 0-27 boxcars today.

First here is the #9388 "Toys R Us" from 1981u .

The Sears Centennial celebration, #7920 from 1985-1986 u

Finally the 75th anniversary JC Penny 's car #9054 from 1977.

Think about these places, magnificent in their time and celebrating 75-100 years of business.  Today, Sears is gone, JCP is looking at bankruptcy, and Toys R Us is gone.  Oh well, I suppose that's progress.

Best Wishes

Don

@Krieglok posted:

An MTH car in Guilford white…

A Weaver version of the ubiquitous Susie-Q boxcar…

Finally, a repainted Weaver car in the Monon Hoosier Line scheme…I need to use different doors with this scheme..

Tom

Tom, that looks great. I had one similar and ruined it weathering. I have lots of spare Weaver doors if you need the other style.

I have a few cars from west coast roads, including this UP express boxcar by Weaver.  I initially thought it was non-scale since it was only a little over 10" in length but was class BX-50-25.  I thought it was supposed to be a 50' car, but research showed it to be 44'.

For you west coast fans, a nifty web site is UtahRails.net.  For this car, 9109, it had a great amount of data about it. 

It was built for high-speed freight shipments in Sep 1939 as B-50-25 and it was all gray.  Went through repaints (still all gray) in 1942 and 1945.  In mid-1946 it got the two-tone scheme above and was reclassified as BX-50-25.  This is the scheme I need for my layout's late 40s era.  In 1952 it got the yellow/gray Express Service scheme, and in 1955 removed from express service and reclassified XM. 

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Tom, that looks great. I had one similar and ruined it weathering. I have lots of spare Weaver doors if you need the other style.

Thanks Dave! I may have the correct door, but if I don’t, I will be in touch.

I am going to save this car and redo the different doors with another decal set.

Tom