Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Posted under another topic, but more relevant here (for some, this is redundant, sorry). Bought model, actually saw an original completely by chance about 1 year later.

PRRronbh posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

Recently sold a MTH Premier version of that car.  Regret it now!

Here is the Atlas O version of the car.  Someday I'll get around to weathering it.

Here are a couple more Atlas cars.

MTH's first two Timken Boxcar releases. 

"All you need is LOVE," Beatles boxcars, and Lionel "Please, please me," with an engine &  caboose.

   M-53's................

    ...."like a rock", oops, wrong commercial.....

What a cool shot,,,right to the horizon!

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A SMR Trains box car kit, my first such and fun to build.  This is the learning curve for my next car, SIRT 7, one of at least two cars left over from construction of the Staten Island Rail Road in 1860, and retained for baggage and mail:

I Love MA & PA

My contribution to Box car Sunday....the drab yet scarce MKT boxcar....

I do not recall posting this before, sorry if had done so.  This is the only piece of rolling stock surviving from childhood trains of 40's and 50's.

Being all metal helped!

My contribution for this Sunday August 13, 2017. I hope refers count because here is a movie of the brewmasters " Libation Limited! "

my favorite boxcar...(i worked for JCPenney for 36 1/2 years)...favorite switcher, too!...

howard...

www.littleglitterhouses.com 

http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/r...9_training-car.shtml

I met J. C. Penny in Cheyenne Wy. At a store opening in 1958, wonderful visit I still remember that event.

Just got this one off daBay. Old Athearn, maybe All-Nation, 50ft kit. Previous owner had put some nice Lionel die-cast trucks on it (too far outboard - 3-minute re-drill and move mod) and it has a good paint job and lettering.

I've said it before, I like these old metal kits because they look...metal, like the real thing. Thin cross-section material. Not as hyper-detailed as the new stuff (which is beautiful), but I don't care.

Often inexpensive, too - especially if already in the 3RO configuration, as this one was. And, if assembled correctly, pretty robust.

Essentially all the underbody detail that I typically need.

Unless you've had a wreck...

Bangor & Aroostook Potatoes Service.

D500 posted:

Just got this one off daBay. Old Athearn, maybe All-Nation, 50ft kit. Previous owner had put some nice Lionel die-cast trucks on it (too far outboard - 3-minute re-drill and move mod) and it has a good paint job and lettering.

I've said it before, I like these old metal kits because they look...metal, like the real thing. Thin cross-section material. Not as hyper-detailed as the new stuff (which is beautiful), but I don't care.

Often inexpensive, too - especially if already in the 3RO configuration, as this one was. And, if assembled correctly, pretty robust.

 

Essentially all the underbody detail that I typically need.

Unless you've had a wreck...

 

In a moving train most of that minute detail is lost to the eye. Nice car.

So many choices, so many sizes.  Yes!!!

On of my favorite railroads, saw a lot of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC growing up out West in the 50's and early 60's.

http://wikimapia.org/7389442/CRRNJ-Bronx-Terminal

http://ponyrr.blogspot.com/201...h-street-aerial.html

a box car needs a box cab.......

https://www.thestar.com/autos/...through_ontario.html

Transition period Erie Lackawanna. Roo.

Boxcar scene

One of my favorite projects back several years ago. Painting and lettering a Kadee HO Great Northern 40 ft box car. The paint had to be custom mixed as there was no match for the GN green. I must have done a dozen or so mixtures to get it as close as possible. 

RAY

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Very well detailed I must say!

My contribution to Boxcar Sunday.......

Three from different companies and eras.

MPC era Erie-Lackawanna box car with a cool shade of blue. From a SS set.

K-Line B&O woodsided reefer.

Menard's C&O box car. 

Empties ready to roll west.

Santa Fe MOW car.  Santa Fe was infamous for diluting the silver paint used to cover an ex-revenue car.

John Smith commissioned this model which is quite rare and goes for big bucks at auction houses.

PR car used for this project.

I diluted silver latex paint and ours runs in our MOW trains.  I need to apply black decals.

John in Lansing, ILL

SOO LINE "50" BOX CAR WITH A WOOD LOAD.

box car reflection....

#1367............

....forgot to get sent out to "Ziebart"....

Here's are two shots from the Free State Junction Railway's all box car " Merchant's Limited " as it whizzed through town yesterday. 

All alone in consist of tank cars

A change in carrier's after a takeover.