Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Lots of corn in Nebraska.

                             Who has one of these? That's what I thought...

Boxcar for today:  REA

Hi everyone...hope your Sunday is going well.  My input today takes me away from the more familiar Leonardtown and Savannah at back to my "roots" with the Pennsylvania RR in the North East.  Today, its the late 40's and we still see steam in the yards and sidings.  Today management has to move a couple of boxcars out of one of the team tracks behind the depot and put them back on in the yard.  The assignment is going to Joe, one of our last steam qualified engineers, to use #1615 and ancient 0-4-0 switcher to get the job done.

Here is a view of that elderly switch engine...Lionel 1615 from '55-'57.  It turns out to be the youngest part of this consist!

Here is the job.  Joe has dropped the caboose on the main and has backed into the team track behind the depot to pick up the boxcars that need to be moved.

Here is the first part of our consist today.  Its PRR Automobile Car, X2458 made by Lionel between 1946-1947.  Its a sheet metal car, carried over from prewar days where it carried the number 2758.

Here is the other boxcar, PRR "Baby Ruth Candy" box car, X2454 also offered 1946-1947

Here is Joe, backed down the main and coupled up to the caboose, PRR N5 Caboose, Lionel 2457 offered between 1945-1947 and as you can see illuminated.  Another prewar carryover, although the prewar car was tuscan and carried the number 2672 and the postwar car (this one) is red.

OK Joe, take them away and clear the main, its almost 5 pm and the evening commuter trains will start stacking up unless you clear a path.

Well everyone, hoping you have a happy and healthy week

Don

Some of my favorites...

The Union Pacific

Lionel NYC Pacemaker...some of my favorites.  Postwar 6464-125 on the left from 1954-56.  16236 from around 1992 on the right.  

Fendermain

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Boxcars for this fine Sunday features Reading and New York Central.

Well here it is BxCrSun again, and its actually started to get cool here in Texas, all the way down to 55 this morning , this keeps up might have to turn off the air conditioning .   Great boxcars everyone.  BillT I especially liked the "Nebraska Corn Products" car, if you can could you state what make that is??

Well here is my car for today, its a Limited Edition Lionel Car, #6-16808, from 1993.  Lionel made it especially for "Toys R Us" and it was sold, as I remember, in their stores.  I note somewhat sadly that the car states..."Toys R Us, The  World's Biggest Toy Store" ,  while true I am sure 27 years ago, they are bankrupt today...and out of business.

Have a good week everyone

Don

Beer train.

Early PostWar Favorites

Dean

A long box car train passes the yard on main line track #1.

There's no shortage of MPC era box cars rolling on our home layout...

Boxcars for this fine Sunday.

Well folks, here it is BxCrSun again.  Trumptrain and Don W great scenes.  Trumptrain I especially liked the horse and wagon unloading the Budweiser boxcar.  I don't know where you got the little cases / boxes but they are very realistic.  Super job! Don W, I agree there is no real shortage of MPC era boxcars, I have started to concentrate a piece of my collection on the earliest ones, right at the transition point from Lionel to MPC and find that the cars are neat, the livery is sharp and by and large the prices are very low even for NIB pieces.

Well my contribution today is unusual at least for me.  I had a chance encounter this morning, a cool sunny day here in central Texas.  My encounter was with a BNSF hot shot freight carrying a full consist of double stack cars.  I paced it on one of our semi-rural roads and clocked it at about 58-60 mph.  By sprinting ahead, I was able to get in front of the train at the next road crossing.  These scenes are at the RR crossing in Crawford, Texas a one traffic light town west of Waco and about 1/2 way between between Dallas / Ft. Worth and Austin (about 100 miles either north or south).  Its an agricultural area, mostly farms, and in just a few moments drive from this crossing all you will share the landscape with is cotton, corn, beans, and cows (plus a few horses).  Not the giant ranches of West Texas, these are small herds (20-30 head) as the land is mostly given over to raising crops (with our climate that is 2 yields per year).

Here are the big 6 wheel BNSF diesels approaching the crossing.  Two units on the head end and that is all the power.  The track here is level with few turns so the load is likely reasonably low.  The structure you can see on the right is a local grain loading elevator.  Fairly small operation loads both trucks and hopper cars and has a single siding that extends under that shed roof. (P.S. This little elevator operation would make a neat structure on a layout, its small, served by both road and rail, and complete despite its size - if anyone wanted some pictures for modeling, its only about 20 minutes from my house and I could easily post them).

Here comes the power again, bending into a shallow curve that is just down track from this crossing.

Here is why I felt justified in posting these on "box car" Sunday.  Clearly these are "boxes" and they are on cars! (LOL)

The big customer on this train is J B Hunt with the white containers and what appears to be "Schdale" (?) with the orange ones.  There were 1 or 2 odd ones but the entire train except for that was either orange or white containers.

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone.

Don

Box Car Sunday - WP Freight

I have not taken many photos lately, so I went back in time to a Maryland O Gaugers' meeting back in '13.  (The MDOG was an informal group of great guys that got together at their homes).

I always thought this car was interesting.  Instead of a beer reefer, it is a beer boxcar.

Here's a train of boxcars that passed through Patsburg 5 years ago.

Loading harvested Christmas trees so they will arrive in time to tree lots by Thanksgiving.

Must be break time as the crew takes a breather.

Patrick, looks like your getting ready for the spirit of the holidays""" and we sure need it this year more than ever'....🌲🎃🎄🍗🦃

Here's more of my favorites - in this case Post War, MPC, and modern eras.

Wow lots of beautiful box cars pictured today, amazing paint schemes, and fun to view. Happy Sunday Everyone...

Here’s two i was running today...

Hello and happy BxCarSun everyone...Here is another wayward car from my collection.  I purchased it to commemorate my wife and my one year sabbatical in Massachusetts on an assignment from my employer.  Although I bought it some years later, it still serves that purpose.  

Here you go, the Lionel 6-19951 "I Love Massachusetts" boxcar from 1998.  Note the names of various railroads to the right of the door.  I expect that those were railroads that served the state at that time.  I can recognize: Conrail, B&M, Amtrack, The "T" commuter serevice, and "CV" which I speculate was Central Vermont.  The "Iw" logo I can't place.

Another view, I have to admit, I never saw a boxcar IRL with a pink/purple roof and ends but Hey, these are toy trains right!

Well hope everyone is having a happy Sunday.  Have a great and healthy week.

Don

A night stroll reveals these standing boxcars as I look over the side of a foot bridge.  

Loading up with ice

Here is all of New England on boxcars. Plus New York, it took awhile to get them all but it was worth the wait. I Love them all.

Well Box Car Sunday folks, we seem (at least on my computer) to have left this thread at 11/8 nearly 2 weeks ago.  So assuming that we are still "live" here on 11/22 I thought I would post my input for this weekend.

Here is the Lionel (MPC) Rock Island Box Car from 1977-78 blocking up the rush hour traffic in Small Town on the Leonardtown and Savannah.  This is just about as dense as the traffic gets in Small Town but luckily its a short train with just the local switch job moving a few cars over to the storage yard.

Meanwhile at the other end of town, in the industrial area near the docks of the Port of Savannah, the switcher is moving a carload of Ice Cream just loaded up from the refrigerated hold of an incoming freighter and preparing to make its delivery into the stores and ice cream shops in Small Town in preparation for everyone buying to handle the Thanksgiving Holiday.

This is a MTH car from Blue Bell's 90 th Anniversary in June 2016.

Well, I hope some others post in this thread, I really enjoy the pictures.

Best Regards

Don

A mixed freight train with several box cars passes through the city of Christopolis.

A variety of boxcars for today.

Good Morning all you Boxcar Fans. Here’s a couple of old AHM Boxcars I Custom painted and decaled.

Happy Boxcar Sunday to all of you.  On my layout I don't have too much need for boxcars , (hoppers,  ore cars and gondolas, yes), but I still have a sizable roster that I take to the club. 

Here's a CNW box parked on the main next to some home-made trees.

Happy box car Sunday to all

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone. Here is my Postwar 736 Berkshire pulling a string of MPC woodside reefers on my Super O table.