Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Here’s an Easter Sunday color egg theme. Have a great day.

Well hello BxCrSun fans on this lovely (at least here in central Texas) Holiday Sunday.  Today I thought I might augment a posting I did on this thread on 3/6/2022 discussing the Lionel "600" series boxcar primarily the Number 655.  The 600 series was Lionel's small series of freights and I mentioned that they also had a larger "800" series of freights.  So today I thought I might show you the Lionel #814 boxcar.  This car was made with various color, trim, and coupler combinations from 1926 to 1942.  This example with the cream body, orange roof and door guides, and large horizontal door handle is from 1926.

Here is the name plate end of the car.  There are two ladders and two brake wheels. She is showing a bit of play wear but then again she is 96 years old!

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Here is the car number end.  Note also that Lionel decided to label the cargo for this car.  "Automobiles and furniture" remember that Auto's were carried in "box type" cars up until the adoption of the auto rack type carrier in 1960.

I couldn't close without showing you a comparison of the "600" series box car #655 with the "800" series box car #814.  The 814 is larger in all dimensions, including height.  These two cars while representing their series are not of the same era, the 655 has the black stamping vice the plates and hence is a much later pre-war car.  However even though trim and colors changed through the pre-war period, the basic size did not.

Well Best Wishes to all and I hope you have a blessed Holiday

Don

Here are a couple Weaver repaints I just completed. A couple Southern roads…

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Two new purchases of factory painted cars. The ATSF car is a MTH product and the CV car is a Weaver car. Being that they had later dates on the data stencils, I added ACI plates to the sides…

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And finally a Weaver car I painted in G&D using K4 decals…

Tom

MTH  MA & PA 19th century boxcar.

Hey guys. Happy Easter. Here are (2) of my recent acquisitions. Lionel 86' High Cube Boxcars.

Donald

@3rail posted:

Hey guys. Happy Easter. Here are (2) of my recent acquisitions. Lionel 86' High Cube Boxcars.

Donald

Donald, those cars have some nice paint jobs and detail, graffiti and all. Plus, they are huge! Nice score!

Can you guess that I'm a PRR fan?

Kusan PRR Merchandise Service.

Frank's Roundhouse PRR REA #2340.

Frank's Roundhouse PRR #2290.

This 40’ car was caught in Willimantic, CT, freshly shopped and ready for a load at American Thread.  
Atlas L&N, 1970’s production.  I used Scalecoat II over Rustoleum primer, applied lightly.  Trucks are original to the car which was a pandemic paint project…

Don

Little Late Hope all had a nice Easter,

Here are 2 Weaver 40 footers from different ends of the country.

Why is it when I find and paint what I think is a unusual or uncommon paint scheme, I start seeing factory versions all over the place? Lol….

Anyway, here is a MTH Premier 40’ boxcar that started life as a York commemorative car. I stripped and repainted it with Scalecoat II and decaled with K4 decals…

I have yet to swap the roller bearing trucks for friction bearing…

Tom

Here's my boxcars for this fine Sunday!   ( click on photos to enlarge )

Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac ... a MTH Premier car.  

Two Weaver boxcars that I weathered.

This B&O Class M-59 boxcar was done from a beat-up Intermountain model with a poor second paint and lettering job as well as a few missing detail parts. Modifications include deeper side sill and Duryea underframe extended coupler drawbars with center sill carry braces on each end.

The finished car stands at the B&O / Staten Island Rapid Transit St. George Yard backdrop.

It carries a St. G reweigh stencil as well.

S. Islander

I have this Weaver Models Reading boxcar celebrating the Bicentennial and a while back I wanted to get some history on the prototype.  Problem is, the Reading never had 40' boxcars painted in this scheme.  The Reading had four cars painted this way, but they were 50' cars with the numbers 19805, 19806, 19807, and 19808.  Weaver got the scheme right and the correct numbers (they did at least three of the cars).  Too bad they didn't put it on their 50' model.

ADDED:  Just realized I did a similar post back in July, 2020.  Need to buy some new unique boxcars.  Maybe someday all those Atlas cars I pre-ordered will be delivered.

Well it's BxCrSun again and I find myself short of new pictures.  Sorry but some of these may have been posted before.

First: @Dave Ripp - Great Weaver boxcars and they look really good.  I thought you might like to see Lionel's take on the SP&S with a double door version from 1989.

Next, what "king of the road" could resist the "Hobo Rest" boxcar from the Girard Model Works, Joy Line trains which eventually transitioned over to Marx ownership and resulted in his 6" car line in 1935.

Finally, OK not a box car but a refrigerator car, from the MKT railroad. This is a modern Marx car from around 1998.

Best wishes everyone. Hope you have a great week.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well it's BxCrSun again and I find myself short of new pictures.  Sorry but some of these may have been posted before.

First: @Dave Ripp - Great Weaver boxcars and they look really good.  I thought you might like to see Lionel's take on the SP&S with a double door version from 1989.

Next, what "king of the road" could resist the "Hobo Rest" boxcar from the Girard Model Works, Joy Line trains which eventually transitioned over to Marx ownership and resulted in his 6" car line in 1935.

Finally, OK not a box car but a refrigerator car, from the MKT railroad. This is a modern Marx car from around 1998.

Best wishes everyone. Hope you have a great week.

Don

Very nice Don, and thanks for always having a tin reply. They always look great and I envy your collection.

Dave: Thank you for the compliment.

Best wishes

Don

Have a great Sunday all! Took me close to 10 minutes to put on a set of wheels on this N scale box car, Don't know how they do it.

I always enjoy BCS , so here’s another for you, just sitting in the Vernon yard waiting to be picked up by the local, thence west to Chicago with its load of fine woolen cloth.

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Rust never rests. 

@SIRT posted:

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THE  CUSTOMER  IS  ALWAYS  RIGHT          SIRT , you made the customer's dream come true.

I'll start this week with a nice Weaver model. This one was new old stock that I had buried on a shelf.

A Union Pacific double door

Bangor & Aroostook #2736.

Have a Great Box car Sunday all, A view of a Pennsy Geep under the bridge.

This B&O wagon top box car was first built when I was 18.  I got a Walthers milled roof, floor, doors and some detail parts.   An Eric Stevens HO "Dollar Car" article in an early 1950's Model Railroader magazine article was my inspiration. Why not make one in O gauge as well?  While Mr. sevens made his car at about $1.00, mine was more expensive at $7.00 +shipping and postage from Milwaukee WI added to that.

The car ribs were made with insulated sold wire from a Lionel cable reel.  To get a smooth seamless look, a Life magazine cover provided the sheathing. A rebuild of this model in the 1970's replaced the paper sheathing with thin sheet metal from a used offset press master. The same material was rivet embossed for the car end sheathing.  Updated details, paint, lettering and some weathering finished the job.

In 2000, this B&O model took a 6-month trip to run on other eastern US O scale layouts in the "O Ship" car exchange event.  In its travels, this B&O car went to New Hampshire, Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC and Pennsylvania, before returning home to New York.  For each month, I hosted a car from another modeler's layout. We each took photos of the exchanged cars on our layouts and shared them. Neat as such an exchange might be, it sadly suffered failures in other regions with models getting lost or not being returned.

S. Islander

Here's my boxcars for this fine Sunday!  

"Those who know ship B&O!"   Three B&O boxcars by Weaver.

Needham Packing Co by MTH.  

Great photo's everyone.  S.Islander - interesting story about the car exchange.  Bar GP7 #63 - super realistic scene, you are really an expert at that.  Vern - neat new UP car and a double door! Dave - nice SP car, glad you got it off the shelf and Patrick- great scenes as always.  I noted the "Needham" packing Co. car...not sure but we lived in Needham, Ma one time, could this company be from there?

OK today I have a slight variation from BxCrSun...because I just acquired this MPC " candy bar" refer and I thought it was neat to show.  So please forgive this slight excursion from pure "box" cars.

Here she is in a side view.  The 9858 Lionel (MPC) refer, was an uncatalogued offering in 1973 and then offered in the catalogue in 1974-1976.  There was quite a series of such cars in many liveries, mostly product type vice real railroads.  

Here is the "name" end of the car

Here is the picture end of the car showing the "Butterfinger" candy bar - YUM!

Here she is with her Lionel MPC type "window" box.

So that's what a Refigerator car looked like when you got one in 1973 so how about how one looked when you got one in 1935?  Well here below is the Marx C&S Refer from 1936 in the short wheelbase, lithographed frame configuration.  This car is about 6" long vice the "Butterfinger" car which is 10 1/4 " long...

Well Best Wishes everyone for the rest of your weekend and for a great week coming up.

Don

Graffiti  boxcar  in  memory of our two Schnauzer pups.   HAN SOLO and ANAKIN SKYWALKER. 

My latest repaint is still drying.

I did some detail touch up on this Weaver NYCS Pacemaker boxcar. I painted the ladders black and added dimensional data that replicates the actual cars that were placed in regular interchange service after the Pacemaker service ended…

Tom

A quick post before going out to mow the grass…

Two Arcade and Attica 40’ boxcars, Weaver brand and repainted by me, using K4 decals.

Also finished a Pacific Great Eastern MTH 40’ car after stripping and repainting. Decals again, from K4 Decals…

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

A quick post before going out to mow the grass…

Two Arcade and Attica 40’ boxcars, Weaver brand and repainted by me, using K4 decals.

Also finished a Pacific Great Eastern MTH 40’ car after stripping and repainting. Decals again, from K4 Decals…

Tom

So Tom, like in “Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass?” (a Buck Owens country hit that went #1 in 1969)

I didn’t know that some of these road names even existed. But as always, they look great and you do fine work.

@Krieglok posted:

Also finished a Pacific Great Eastern MTH 40’ car after stripping and repainting. Decals again, from K4 Decals…

Tom

Nice work Tom.

You have to get your lady excited about mowing like my Judy does.

Just a couple of local Colorado road boxcars dropped in front of the double tanks in the Coalforest yard.

Lionel Pennsy boxcar with harmonica playing hobo.

Yesterday was a tough one, so today staff are kicking back awaiting the next inbound car.  The car is an Atlas 70s product washed, highlighted/weathered right here in Rockville, CT. Break time is over and the car will soon be loaded with fine woolen cloth from the Hockanum MIlls.

Don

Some Weaver box cars that we had for sale.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Amazing weathering on that box car!