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

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'll start this week off with a Weaver Burlington Route.

Thanks for starting us off Dave. I have bought and sold many Macy’s boxcars; but I never had a Bloomies boxcar.

Boston & Maine 2-8-0 Consolidation #2403 pulled a freight train with three boxcars and B&M caboose #104647 on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

The boxcars are Puget Sound Butter & Egg Company PSRX 1006 (Atlas O), Boston & Maine 13138 (Atlas O), and Boston & Maine 73199 (MTH). The first two are wood-sided refrigerated cars. B&M 73199 is all steel built in March 1942.

MELGAR

Morning!

I'm off to the Vernon CT train show, which is co-sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society, but before I go here is a photo of a project-in-progress.  It's a former Weaver 50' Mailbox car moving to Pan Am, with MEC reporting marks.   Interesting and challenging masking project.  Yet to be done:  the roof, correct trucks (searching) and appropriate weathering.  It's a bit out of my era, but hey, I like it.  

Oops, that was "weaver Mailbox"-----paint was Tamiya, and decals were Highball Graphics.  

Weaver - this one was on my want list for a long while. Finally snagged one BNIB.

New Atlas MRL 50' Gunderson high cube boxcar.

PW Lionel Great Northern From 1956,57, and 66 Body Type 2B MB door. The Type 2B exists with MB and SB doors.

Fresh out of the Great Northeastern Railway's (GNR) paint shop is my son, Chris' new addition to the GNR freight fleet, a re-painted and decaled Weaver boxcar, GNR 3076. When weathered, the result will appear on a future edition of Weathering Wednesday, the OGR thread that celebrates new things made to look old and well used. Stay tuned.

One new car I painted for GRJ , a MTH 40’ boxcar…

And a previously painted car. I had to repaint a different set of doors to get the lettering to work along the top edge…

Tom

Newest addition to the roster - RMT woodsided reefer -

well done, RMT. Amazing value.

Well boxcar fans, I continue on my collection of Kline boxcars, really looking for the early 8" cars as they most resemble the Marx "deluxe" cars.  Well I liked this one, K-6409, mostly because it is a RR that I have nothing in my collection, the Chicago, Milwaukee , St. Paul and Pacific RR.  So even though this is a later 9 1/2 " car at $10 (NIB) it was worth it to add to my running stock.  Interesting note, this car was newly manufactured in 1987 and the box has a price sticker on it from "Town House TV & Appliances" with a price of $12.95, so by waiting 37 years I saved $3 !!

This panel advertises the "hydroframe" on the car.  I don't know for certain, but expect that this was an improvement added to the car to assure a more gentle ride.  Since "hydro" normally signals either water or fluid, I am guessing that this car had some sort of fluid shock absorbing mechanism added to the suspension.

Best wishes everyone, hope your weekend is going well.  Have a great Veterans Day Monday and a great week.

Don

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

Morning!

I'm off to the Vernon CT train show, which is co-sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society, but before I go here is a photo of a project-in-progress.  It's a former Weaver 50' Mailbox car moving to Pan Am, with MEC reporting marks.   Interesting and challenging masking project.  Yet to be done:  the roof, correct trucks (searching) and appropriate weathering.  It's a bit out of my era, but hey, I like it.  

Good Morning Don,

Challenging is a bit of an understatement!   Masking off those rib areas to get nice clean paint color separation would be a real treat to do.   Not only that,  but then you still have the decals to apply over those same ribs.   Nice work!

A little late posting this one.

- walt

I simply love this thread with so many beautiful box cars, some hand painted, some made by our great manufacturers, but All look great.  Happy Railroading Everyone who

Thank you Nick!  Now if I can get software to stop correcting Railbox to Mailbox....  

Sorry for the late entry; the erecting shop guy got pulled away to other, more pressing matters (!)…

Weaver stripped, repainted with Tamiya Royal Light Gray (TS-81), and a mix of two different sheets of K4 decals.

Cheers,

Price

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'll start this week off with a Weaver Virginian.

Thanks for starting us off on this Boxcar Sunday Dave! I like your Virginian Boxcar. My entry today is a Lionel custom METCA issue. It’s a Long Island Boxcar #2587 with a phrase I’m not familiar with; “Your Steel Thruway To The Fair Gateway” .

And now for something completely different:

Weaver stripped and painted Rustoleum periwinkle blue, Circus City decals-

Cheers,

Price