Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Waiting for the Trump Train to be delivered...sneak peek:

Randy, First - great looking car and very nice display section.  Second - a thought  - My impression is you want to take advantage of outdoor sunlight and real background to give the feel of the real thing.  If possible, see if you can find some part of the yard so that when you set up the shot there are no visible telephone or power wires in the background. If you can do this, the visual effect I think you are trying for will be even better.

Today's boxcar/ reffer 

@ToledoEd posted:

Waiting for the Trump Train to be delivered...sneak peek:

Where is the Trump Train available????

Waiting for Biden train to be delivered...sneak peak.

@gene maag posted:

Where is the Trump Train available????

I bought it through Legacy Station.  They sent out an email when MTH first announced them....I'm thinking April. May????  

Happy BxCrSun everyone...I just unpacked this new Williams TP&W addition to my Fleet. I bought it just as COVID was cracking down in May, put it under the layout table and have had no real time to get back to it before today.   I have no specific connection to the TP&W but their logo was just too hard to resist, being a "rocket guy" who has worked part time for NASA over the last 10 years.  Its a 40 foot model so it works well on my layout. 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  Best Wishes

Don

I have a fine one for today. Don

                         Here is another fine one'...😀

Well, since we’re posting “fine” ones today, here is a fairly fine example from the Danbury RR Museum I took on a visit a couple of years ago...

@Apples55 posted:

Well, since we’re posting “fine” ones today, here is a fairly fine example from the Danbury RR Museum I took on a visit a couple of years ago...

The car above yours was built in 1898, and is also at the Danbury Museum...  Quite the coincidence don't you think... 😲

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

The car above yours was built in 1898, and is also at the Danbury Museum...  Quite the coincidence don't you think... 😲

Wow, Ted... definitely a coincidence. I guess I missed that “fine” car when I was there... they both could use a touch of TLC!!!

@ToledoEd posted:

I bought it through Legacy Station.  They sent out an email when MTH first announced them....I'm thinking April. May????  

I ordered a Trump Train today from  thetrainshop.com   Legacy is out of stock. Also coming is a bump & go Trolley and a flat car with a Trump tractor trailer.

Menards boxcar

Menards Great Northern. Blends right in with AMT/KMT Great Northern.

                                                    ACY  &  ACY... 

Milk on my mind.

To the OGR Staff: In view of the fact that political orientated posts are deleted as soon as they're placed here, I'd be interested to know if it's proper to display models with what appears to be political overtones, that might possibly be used with the intention of posting them as a campaign pitch instead of sharing them for the enjoyment between members?

This is a K-Line special release from the early 1990's. My wife and I spent our  first anniversary at French Lick Springs  hotel, nice place,  still in business after 40 years. Bought the car as a momento along with a Baker's Chocolate hopper car . 

Both are for sale if anyone is interested. I will post a picture of the hopper if you want to see it. Don't worry we're still married,  just want to start paring down the collection. Think of an equitable price .

Also my last boxcar purchase,  2019 CLRC CNW club car from Lionel . She's a beaut, but doesn't fit into my layout scheme. Bought it to help bolster club finances. 

Happy boxcar Sunday. 

Menards, the boxcar King.

Bill T: Is that Mark, The Menards Train Guy displayed on the side of the box car??

Item: The reporting mark (no pun intended) should be MENX.  Oh well, we're just playing train anyway, right?

Hello and Happy BxCrSun everyone.  This week I have another "new" purchase that I just unwrapped.  Its been under the table since early Jun when Williams held a sale for $19.95. Finally after a summer of hiding from the virus, I get to unpack my purchases....This one is for a favorite RR, the Maryland and Pennsylvania.  Wife and I lived in both those states so I have a connection to the "Ma & Pa" or MPA.  Today, this one has traveled from the tool making capital of the world in Cincinnati, OH to deliver a new drill press to one of our local industries.  Right now the yard crew, working with the REA is trying to figure out how to get the forklift under it to put it in the truck and deliver it to the local factory.  Foreman is only guy visible as everyone else went over to the dinner for lunch.

Happy Sunday everyone, have a healthy and happy week.

Don

Kusan Allstate boxcar from Mexico.

Bill T: Please share with OGR Railroaders the history behind your Allstate/Sears Roebuck de Mexico Kusan box car.  When was it first released and is it considered rare by today's standards, etc.

Thanks,

Joseph Toth Jr.

Just received my Atlas reefer I love the details.

Kusan Western Pacific on Lionel trucks.

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Bill T: Please share with OGR Railroaders the history behind your Allstate/Sears Roebuck de Mexico Kusan box car.  When was it first released and is it considered rare by today's standatds, etc.

Thanks,

Joseph Toth Jr.

Joeseph, I picked up a Kusan Chihuahua al Pacifico set about 25 years ago which included the Allstate Sears boxcar. Kusan manufactured electric trains in Mexico starting in 1958 and ended production around 1961 as the company was close to turning out the lights. All of Kusan Mexican production is hard to come by, I don't believe much of the releases made it across the border.

This is the set I purchased many years ago. Kusan Alcos were 2 rail so I switched the running gear to K-Line 3 rail which was a perfect fit.

Some recent decal jobs by me...

Tom

Boxcars delivery the goods.

Building supplies.

Farm equipment.

Industrial pumps.

@Krieglok posted:

Some recent decal jobs by me...

Tom

Hi Tom, they look like they just came out of the manufacturing facility, very, very nice.

Mucho Gracias Senor Bill for the information!

Tom, I agree with Bill, I've never seen such professional decal work before.  Not even the one time maker of HO R-T-R box cars of the 70s, Kar-Line, did such a supurb job!

Hello everone and Happy BxCrSun to you all:  Today I have a little scene from Baltimore Harbor, as the C&O delivers a very special display car to Phillips Seafood in the Harbor Area.  Phillips is perhaps the most famous seafood restaurant in the area and is a big draw to the harbor.  Today they are going to exhibit their aquarium car, complete with swimming shark and clown fish (maybe its Nemo?)   They are being delivered by a Chesapeake and Ohio Alco A (Lionel 2024 from 1969) and trailing a Chesapeake and Ohio work caboose (Lionel 6219 from 1960) .  Personally my wife and I lived in southern Md quite near Annapolis and Baltimore for a decade when I worked at Patuxent River Naval Air Station which is water side on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay.  So we have a connection to the area.

Here is our Alco pulling away from Baltimore terminal, through the storage yard, past the baseball stadium and down past the Md State Aquarium, to the Harbor area.

Here is the Phillips aquarium car.  Look there is Nemo being chased by a shark.  

Here is the train as it passes by on its way to the harbor.  The aquarium car is a Lionel LLC product from 2011. 

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Mucho Gracias Senor Bill for the information!

Tom, I agree with Bill, I've never seen such professional decal work before.  Not even the one time maker of HO R-T-R box cars of the 70s, Kar-Line, did such a supurb job!

 

Great job on decalling those boxcars