Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Hi all,

Here's an InterMountain Railway Co. O-scale kit I picked up at a hobby shop a few years ago.  Lettered for Bruce Chubb's Sunset Railway and Navigation Co., a large HO-scale railroad that got a fair amount of press back in the 70's and 80's, if memory serves.  Not sure why InterMountain produced an O-scale kit to honor an HO-scale model railroad, but oh well........................

I still need to match/mix up some paint for the grab rails and stirrups.  Glad I finally got it built, I had been putting it off for quite some time while pondering what to do with all those fragile plastic parts.

I "O-gauged" the kit by omitting the fragile plastic under-frame brake and rigging piping, forming grab handles and stirrups out of steel wire and staples to replace the delicate molded plastic pieces, and adding a set of MTH O-gauge trucks from my parts box.  Much more durable that way.

While not a prototype road name, it's at least plausible, and for O-gauge, that's okay with me. 

Randy Harrison. That “coke” train switcher set was the first toy train set I bought for my eldest son in ‘75 or ‘’76 I think. It was my re-entry into toy trains after some 20 years. He never really kept up his interest although he loved the set at the time and I never stopped 😜

it was great to see that colorful set again. 

Don

Our new kitchen island, the top is recycled wood that came from the FLOOR OF A BOXCAR !

Circa 1960s.  Even the original hardware was left intact and refinished by Pacifico Reclaimed Wood in Lancaster, NY.

@Mixed Freight posted:

Hi all,

Here's an InterMountain Railway Co. O-scale kit I picked up at a hobby shop a few years ago.  Lettered for Bruce Chubb's Sunset Railway and Navigation Co., a large HO-scale railroad that got a fair amount of press back in the 70's and 80's, if memory serves.  Not sure why InterMountain produced an O-scale kit to honor an HO-scale model railroad, but oh well........................

This was part of the "Living Legend" series commissioned by the National Model Railroad Association.  Cars were available to NMRA members in G, O, S, HO and N.

Rusty

And old original Williams box car. Had a Walthers set of decals, used to live close to Yakima and loved the little electric railroad there so here it is. Don

@scale rail posted:

And old original Williams box car. Had a Walthers set of decals, used to live close to Yakima and loved the little electric railroad there so here it is. Don

Scale Rail, here is a complete consist of the various Yakima Valley reefers manufactured by KMT Trains.

Northern Pacific in night and day. 

@scale rail posted:

And old original Williams box car. Had a Walthers set of decals, used to live close to Yakima and loved the little electric railroad there so here it is. Don

That's a beautiful area up there...as is all of the Great Northwest. 

Mark in Oregon

Hi BCSun Folks :  Beautiful cars @scale rail the Yakima Apples livery is new to me and I had not seen it before.  My layout is rather narrow and so I am pretty much limited to the old 40 ft (6464 series) cars for clearance, but I can run the Marx 3/16 "scale" cars.  So here is the GAEX box car from the 1950's and it came in a set with a #21 lithographed Santa Fe warbonnet F-3.  Its all metal, lithographed and has sliding doors and the "automatic" pickle fork couplers and the high trucks that allowed it to couple up to the #21.

Happy BCSun everyone

Don

Some real boxcars hiding out in northern New Hampshire.

Where does time go, I meant to post these pictures on sunday, but better late than never. There’s a lot of nice and unique box cars pictured above, all beautiful. I wish everyone a great week, fun with your trains, and staying safe, staying healthy, and praying continually. Happy Railroading everyone.

Leapinlarry:  WOW those are some L-o-n-g boxcars!  If I put all those on my main line the engine would be just behind the last one!  My contribution this Sunday is far more mundane...my Marx NYC switcher is moving a boxcar full of those "State of Maine" products (likely potatoes) to start on its journey to the big city. 

Happy BxCarSun everyone.  Hope you all have a happy and healthy week

Don

Happy Box car Sunday to all 

Boxcars for this fine Sunday:

Circa 1950:  RF&P delivers cotton bales from down south. 

Great Northern:  "Let's take a peek inside"

Ramping up for unloading. 

Late September .. barrels of apples and a freshly painted Whitehouse reffer.  "Let's get these apples to market.  There are pies waiting to be baked!" 

Trumptrain, very interesting pictures of men at work unloading great merchandise from beautiful box cars on your amazing layout, so cool...

Don McErlean, Yes, those box cars are long and fun to run, and your Marx switcher looks equally fun to run and the red/white/blue box car is one of my favorite paint schemes, 

Rpmcobra, beautiful Western Maryland locomotive and freight consist, wow..

Bill T,  it’s time for a cold one, beautiful box car, and for Your pleasure, check out my GM&O box car and a couple of state cars, as I live on the border of Tennessee and Kentucky....

Everyone, have a safe, fun Sunday, stay safe, stay healthy, Pray Continually. Happy Railroading 

A long boxcar train passes the engine storage yard on track #1

An original...

Here's a beauty for you and ready to roll...maybe.  Don

I wanted to send this yesterday! Sunday ....but everyday is a fun-day with our trains..

The new construction house had something fro NYC and California.. not sure what they dropped off.. daniel

Ace Equipment, manufactured by KMT trains about 50 years ago.

Here’s two of my favorite Lionel Standard O Boxcars 

REA express boxcar for this fine Sunday.  

Box cars have become a show on the rails of America, and other countries, with beautiful ads, roadname loyalty, many are colorful and fun to view as they roll down the track. Even those with a bit of graffiti. Near my home in Clarksville, Tennessee, the RJ Corman is the main railroad that delivers to our many factories. It’s a fun to watch brand. Stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually. Have a great sunday, Happy Railroading...

These gentlemen appear to be having a dispute regarding the relative merits of American Flier vs. Lionel...

My grandchildren love the ice house action and I kinda like it myself.

I gotta say the photography and authentic settings in these forums posted by many

members amazes me

One I did a couple years back

Really great pictures everyone...I have to admit, Don Winslow a sentimental attachment to the "outlaw" car with the ever present gun fight, what fun.  My contribution today is a little off the normal and is from a Hafner freight set I recently acquired. 

First - not quite a box car, but the Hafner cattle car.  This was made both with and without the slats opened.  The slats open version is also a bit larger than the lithographed only version.  However, it is really hard to get the cows in, as the door does not open

The second car is also not quite a box...it is an automobile car from the time period before the prevalence of racks on flat cars.  At least in this case, the door opens so we can get cars inside although the single door means they better be small!

Happy BxCarSun everyone ...Have a great week

Don

N de M boxcar from RMT Trains

 New Haven, Engine modern frame, postwar shell, Boxcars Lionel, MTH, Lionel

Happy Boxcar Sunday Everyone. Here’s a few Weaver Boxcars today 

Boxcars for this fine Sunday!  

Great pics and info everyone.

Here's some of the SANTA FE maintained cars from Lionel. 

Great sounds from the kitchen car!!!

                                             #1854 , worn out...

                                               Atlas O Atlanta & West Point 1937 AAR boxcar.

Happy Box Car Sunday to all 

Sears was always a big part of my life! Christmas catalogs, First bike, tools, auto equipment, kitchen appliances and even a new 2 car garage. Happy Sunday everyone.

Gravy Train by Kusan trains and the NP by Menards Trains.

franktrain:  I fully agree, SEARS was the place we got nearly everything as I was growing up and Craftsman tools remains my "go to" brand for quality.  Hard to believe that such an icon is nearing bankruptcy.  So from an earlier era, here is my Lionel SEARS Centennial Boxcar.  This was a special commemorative car made by Lionel in 1986. Hard to believe that was now 34 years ago!  

Happy BxCrSun everyone!

Don