Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@leapinlarry posted:

Jeff Sohn, those are beautiful box cars, I love the long ones, so unique. I see your using the Kadee coupling system to, very realistic. These are some of my favorites. Happy Railroading Everyone

Leapinlarry, those are some nice boxcars, I especially like the Western Pacific, the paint job is awesome! Do you mind if I ask who made the WP boxcar?

Scott, this car was made by Lionel, 6-26277 (correction 6-27277) and thank you for the kind words. Most of my trains are Lionel, several MTH cars, Atlas O cars and engines. Happy Railroading Everyone (it’s hard to read)

This is the longest boxcar in my collection, it came with a Lionel LionMaster set (6-30051) from the 2007 catalog that included a TMCC SD90MAC. I still have the whole set. The detail and paint job is pretty nice for a piece from a set. The D&RGW boxcar came with automobile frames inside.

On the Western Pacific box car, Lionel 6-27277, my eyes aren’t what they used to be, however, thank you for the likes… Happy Railroading Everyone

@Don McErlean posted:

Dallas:  We are "close" by Texas standards.  We are about 1.5 hrs to Ft. Hood which I know because the wife and I shop at the BX and use some of the medical facilities there.  We are closer to Killeen, only about an hr from Waco and about 1/2 way (South and slightly West) down to Austin where our son lives.  When we lived in Pa we lived just outside Philly in Doylestown.  My lab that I worked at was in Johnsville.

Don

Well Don , in Texas you would have enough room to collect as many of those I ❤ boxcars from where you and your wife have lived ........as well as all the boxcars from all the forum members .

It always amazed me how much central Texas reminded me of my area in Pa. ( trees , lakes , hills and valleys and streams etc. ) .  While I was stationed at Ft. Hood ,I got used to seeing just how long it took to get to different ciities and towns.   Big state.   

Had a chance to do graphic art for the military as a civilian in Texas ..........but Pa. fiance won out.

@Dallas Joseph :  Thanks for the comeback, I agree central Texas can remind you of PA at times although normally without the snow  (88-94 we lived outside Philly) ! Ft. Hood is huge and its the most populous Army base in the world.  As of 2014 Ft Hood, established as Camp Hood in 1942, had 45,414 assigned soldiers.  The most famous assignee was Elvis Presley in 1958.

  I agree with your comment about "Big"...we moved here from the crowded east coast (Md at the time, just south of DC) and was astonished about how really big it is.  We live in a standard suburban neighborhood and travel 15 miles round trip to the grocery (our home town in NJ was only 1 mile long!!).  We ski in Colorado and drive there.  Leaving at about 0600 we drive all day with no stops except for gas etc and stop about 6 pm...AND WE ARE STILL IN TEXAS!

OK to keep everyone happy with proper posting...here (2 days late) is the American Flyer 3012 enameled box car from 1930-1935.

Best wishes all

Don

Oh H....Dallas I forgot the coolest thing I know about Ft. Hood. Our very close friends lost their family ranch land to the Army with the establishment of Camp Hood in 1942.  The Army took the land under the "war powers act" for WW II.  The ranch had been theirs since  before Texas was a state (Dec 29, 1845) and still today, they and their family have special privileges to enter Ft. Hood because part of the land taken by the Army was a family cemetery and they are allowed to go and tend the graves which were never disturbed.

Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Oh H....Dallas I forgot the coolest thing I know about Ft. Hood. Our very close friends lost their family ranch land to the Army with the establishment of Camp Hood in 1942.  The Army took the land under the "war powers act" for WW II.  The ranch had been theirs since  before Texas was a state (Dec 29, 1845) and still today, they and their family have special privileges to enter Ft. Hood because part of the land taken by the Army was a family cemetery and they are allowed to go and tend the graves which were never disturbed.

Best wishes

Don

Thank you for sharing this. This really warmed and touched both my bride’s and my hearts.  😎😉

An eastern road painted and decaled by me…

A bit of Southwest…

And an South Eastern road, painted and weathered by me…

Tom

A recent addition to the fleet. The Rutland 70T needed some proper loads to pull.

Had to correct another MTH. Added standard door. Fonts & numbers should have been stenciled.

Premier prices with RK features. 

@SIRT posted:

Had to correct another MTH. Added standard door. Fonts & numbers should have been stenciled.

Premier prices with RK features. 

NO  PRICES  from ANY manufacturer are going to match an SIRT unit !!! 😎

Thanks for sharing another beauty.

Boxcar within their natural habitat for this fine Sunday!  

A recent purchase. Nicely detailed Atlas Muncie and Western Ball line.

Well hello box car fans (and who isn't one of those?) what great pictures you have posted and what super rolling stock.  I laughed a little bit at @Jeff78rr and leapin larry at those beautiful l-o-o-o-o-ng boxcars... on my layout if you hooked 3-4 of those together you would have to connect the last one to the front of the engine as you would have completed the loop !!

My post for today does return to a single picture I posted last July but I decided that post was too short a treatment for one of my favorite boxcars and so I can include more information today.  This is the Lionel (MPC) #9214 Northern Pacific boxcar from 1971-72 almost the beginning of MPC.  This guy is one of my favorites because I like the livery, especially the logo and the large lettering, that is visible all around the layout.  Even at 50+ years old this fellow, bought at a train show in early 2019 (before the shutdowns) , still has his box and very little if any visible signs of being played with.

Here is the side view, showing the prominent lettering and the "yin / yang" logo

Front quarter view

Rear quarter view showing RR logo and brake wheel and ladder detail

Here he is in the MPC era "window pane" box

Here is the logo side of the box showing the MPC trademark and telling us that MPC was part of the "FUN GROUP" at General Mills

This is the identifying label end.  At this time MPC was not taking on the expense of stamping boxes by using labels that allowed for the most flexible use of the box inventory, They just put a sticky label on the box end.

Happy Sunday everyone...Hope you enjoy the "Presidents Day" holiday on Monday.

Best wishes

Don

Have a good Sunday all, A few more operation Box cars.

Beautiful box cars fellows, and happy Sunday preceding Presidents Day, also, Happy Railroading Everyone

This week I have an Erie 40 foot by Weaver. I thought it looked red when I ordered it but it's an odd brownish orange, not Tuscan, orange or red. I still like it whatever it is.

BAR #4200.

Dave, the Erie boxcar looks great. The color looks fine from here. It appears to be a decent “boxcar red”.

Here are a couple cars I did some paint work on this week. The C,N&L car is a repainted Weaver car that I completed with Scalecoat II Tuscan red and K4 decals. The T,H&B car is a Weaver/Crown product. I painted the doors black, to more closely match the prototype…

Tom

I recently added this car to the fleet. My SW-8 needed proper rolling stock to pull. It's an Atlas car, my first one. They are nicely detailed.

Bob

I don't know if the Tucker Corporation or the Playboy Automobile Company ever had boxcars with their name on them, but if they did they probably would look like these:

Both cars are Weaver.

Some PW Lionel 3464, 6454 and my Milk car and Merchandise car

Here are my boxcars for this fine Sunday!

Two boxcars sit on a siding waiting to be unloaded.  Both are Weaver cars which I weathered.

Well here is a box car for a railroad terminal company that I can't really say existed, at least I can't find it on the internet.  This was the 1990 TTOS convention car and I assume they held their convention in Columbus, Ohio.  My wife and I lived in the Dayton area from 1970-1987 where I was assigned (when active duty AF) and worked (as an engineer) at Wright Patterson AFB.  So even though we left before the TTOS convention, I had to have this car when I saw it.

Here is the car, most certainly not a very exciting livery or color scheme.  Its what Lionel called a "Standard O" car.  Its mostly plastic including the frame so not a very robust item.  I guess you just had to have a connection with Columbus and Dayton to want it! 

Here is the quarter view, note roof walk which is, I think, accurate for dates before 1995 when the roof walks were prohibited for safety reasons.  The car is 10 1/2 " long, which is almost an inch longer than the 6464 type boxcars.

Here is the box end showing that the  car was the 1990 TTOS Convention Car.

Happy Sunday everyone.

Don

The three latest weathering jobs I’ve done.

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is the car, most certainly not a very exciting livery or color scheme.  Its what Lionel called a "Standard O" car.  Its mostly plastic including the frame so not a very robust item.  I guess you just had to have a connection with Columbus and Dayton to want it! 

Happy Sunday everyone.

Don

Nice car, Don. While I’ll agree that it doesn’t have the most colorful scheme, there is something very appealing about the dark red (tuscan???) lettering on the gray background.

I do like this freight car because it does have a FRED device…so it can be used in place of a caboose…🚂😉😺

Paul @Apples55:  Thanks for your compliment on my Columbus & Dayton car...I appreciate you taking the time to respond.  Best Wishes

Don

Here is an all-metal B&O box car built from a late-1940's "Super Scale" kit.  In place of the rigid frame, rigid wheel set trucks with dummy 'claw' couplers that came with it, I put on a pair of more modern die cast Lionel trucks.   It's sized like a 6464 Lionel box car and the instructions say it could also be finished as a full "S" scale car.  The factory painted and lettered sides carry an accurate B&O car number for a Class M-55c box car built in 1949 by General American.  It may look humble, but it's quite unique!

S. Islander   

@Trainwreck nate posted:

The three latest weathering jobs I’ve done.

Nate, Do you use paint brushes to do the weathering on your cars? It looks very realistic.

Tom

Even though it came in a Weaver box with a Weaver number it has CMP molded in the bottom

Here's a Lionel semi scale high cube boxcar from one of Union Pacific's conquests! It came in a set of UP Legacy cars, Western Pacific hopper with coal load and a "The Katy" tank car. Being semi scale it doesn't have much detail, but a nice paint job and metal sprung trucks.

@Brad J posted:

Even though it came in a Weaver box with a Weaver number it has CMP molded in the bottom

Both of mine came in CMP boxes, cars #120, 126. I see that there is a third number to be on the lookout for.

I may be stretching a point, but here is a scratch-built(?) He transport car of unknown age and builder:

Well, it does look like a boxcar!

@Krieglok posted:

Nate, Do you use paint brushes to do the weathering on your cars? It looks very realistic.

Tom

Tom, yes I do brush and acrylics. Years of painting table top miniatures has taught me a lot. Really easy techniques just washes and dry brushing. I go over my painting techniques in show of my videos.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/...8TiX3X5Ja1cx2bNaaUAA

@Trainwreck nate posted:

The three latest weathering jobs I’ve done.

Thanks for sharing this in your (  how to  ? )  videos Nate .                Your experience really shows up in your modeling .  NICE 

Have a great Box car Sunday, here are some scout type box cars.

And the winner is:   D&H 20031!!

This D&H box car was the winner built by the D&H in a 1924 car building contest between three company car shops held at Oneonta by the D&H.    The day before, all the needed parts, materials and equipment to build one box car by each car shop crew was laid out in the car shop yard.   Selected crews from the other car shops came to Oneonta by train. On the day of the contest, each shop crew went to their assigned "kit" and began building their boxcar.   The Oneonta Shop won, by completing their car in 8 hours and 50 minutes or so.  The second-place car took several minutes over 9 hours, and the last took nearly 11 hours to finish.

My model is a 1998 re-building of a Walthers 36' box car kit I got when I was 14.   It's close but not exact for a 36' D&H boxcar of that time, yet it was a fun thing to work on.  Which is the essence of this wonderous hobby, right?

S. Islander