Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Have a fine Sunday all, Lackawanna Fairbanks Morse Diesel moving some freight.

All boxcars by Weaver.  

Marx boxcars

Here are some photos of my recently purchased CB&Q auto car and a fresh delivery of 1948 Tucker automobiles.

Here are some of mine:

Well good morning BxCrSun fans, great pictures all.  Dave and GGIGUYY great liveries, 3 color box cars and a candy car livery that's really impressive.  Kreiglock - Tom super work for sure.  Like Vern I like the SP&S car - did you know LIonel produced an SP&S car that I posted on this thread back in April.  However the Lackawana "Pheobe Snow" is from my original home area in N.J. Sitka and Patrick - great train shots, looking good!  Donnie - thanks for bringing Mr. Marx into the picture.  Great boxcars...did you know that the yellow SF cattle car also came with scale trucks and couplers?  One of the few members of the plastic freight line to transition over to the 3/16 scale line.

Well today, I have one of the true "collector's jewels" found yesterday at a train show in Austin.  Not all that visually impressive but its truly scarce.  The "Chun King" 6014 0-27 boxcar (sometimes called a "plug door car").  This guy was uncatalogued and was thought to come in an uncataloged set of unknown number with the 246 locomotive and more importantly came in a 1956 uncataloged set, # X-150, featuring a 520 electric box cab that was reported as a prize in a raffle promoting bread in a Rochester, New York grocery store chain.  Interesting and indicative of the Lionel strategy at the time, this set was identical to the catalogued set 1542/750 EXCEPT for the substitution of the Chun King boxcar for the Baby Ruth.  I collect the 6014' type box cars and this little gal is scarce as the proverbial "hens teeth".

Here is the full side view.

The most important "Chun King" product livery.  Look at the logo..."Oriental American Foods".  Some of you may be old enough to remember the (annoying) Chun King marketing song..."You got the vegetables on the bottom, the chow mien sauce on the top".  In the days before digital / cable TV you got to hear that song several times a day .

The railroad end of the livery, PRR of course .

Well, I admit I am really pleased with this find yesterday.  Now...where is that "WIX" boxcar?

Best wishes

Don

Comparisons :

All photos by me from my collection.

a rare occurrence...PA's used to spot beer reefers at the brewery over the weekend...

A recent purchase of a Weaver:

Just finished this custom VTR boxcar to run with my Atlas SD70Ms coming early next year. Working on a few green ones as well.

Wow fellows, there’s so many uniquely beautiful box cars shown this Sunday, it’s amazing. We have been so busy with outdoor work there’s been very little time to run trains. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry - beautiful gardens, but not you need some trains to run through them, like we saw when I was in Nashville.

Best Wishes

Don

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Your usual perfect work, Tom. I like them all, but I think my favorite is the SP&S.

Thanks Vern.

These are some early cars I did. I have been working on a few “other than boxcar” projects, so my new paint works are on hold for a little while…

Tom

Just picked this one up from eBay. I have this thing for historical items. I wish MTH had done the Merci train box cars in their European line.

@AGHRMatt posted:

Just picked this one up from eBay. I have this thing for historical items. I wish MTH had done the Merci train box cars in their European line.

I saw that one for sale but not my era, I liked it enough to keep on my watch list. Very cool thanks for sharing.

Gotta love that Rutland line ....

@AGHRMatt posted:

Just picked this one up from eBay. I have this thing for historical items. I wish MTH had done the Merci train box cars in their European line.

I loved the whole Friendship Train series Lionel did a couple of years ago, Matt, and bought all of them (including the 2 passenger cars). Both historic and colorful. I also agree, I’d love to have seen the Merci cars done by someone. Here are two of the other boxcars.

MTH Gulf Mobile & Ohio which I purchased last week at Berwyn's Trains. It has an unusual, corrugated roof that none of my 40 footers have.

A coincidence here at Boxcar Sunday…

I picked up a couple Western Maryland boxcars last week. One is a MTH car with the same unusual roof that Dave’s GM&O boxcar has. I didn’t notice until I took a couple pictures of my car this morning. These cars are also different in that they have 6’ wide doors…

The other Western Maryland car is a Weaver product, a factory painted outside braced boxcar

They both have the older era Western Maryland paint scheme…

Tom

Well hello BxCrSun fans, today I have a "fun" car, that has no prototypical basis but I really liked the livery.  Its the Lionel 29919 Toy Fair boxcar from 2004.  Lionel makes up a special car each year to give away at the New York Toy Fair and this one comes from the year 2004.  I especially liked the "Lionelville" picture and the slogan..."Where the trains always run on time".

Well hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend.  I loved the "Friendship Train" and "Food for Europe" train, neither one had I seen before.  Dave - good looking GM&O box with the corrugated roof.

Best wishes

Don

@Krieglok posted:

A coincidence here at Boxcar Sunday…

I picked up a couple Western Maryland boxcars last week. One is a MTH car with the same unusual roof that Dave’s GM&O boxcar has. I didn’t notice until I took a couple pictures of my car this morning. These cars are also different in that they have 6’ wide doors…

The other Western Maryland car is a Weaver product, a factory painted outside braced boxcar

They both have the older era Western Maryland paint scheme…

Tom

That's pretty neat Tom. I'd never seen this roof style before and now it's common LOL. Nive choices as always.

Don, thanks for the compliment and for your weekly post.

Western Maryland plug door boxcar.

@trumpettrain posted:

Western Maryland plug door boxcar.

Looks like my favorite time of year.

I thought this might be a good way to show some of my boxcars with New Haven revenue run.

https://photos.google.com/shar...anc3SW9nU3dSVTVWbnhB

Nice! Lots of New Haven!

Tom

@Bill Park posted:

I thought this might be a good way to show some of my boxcars with New Haven revenue run.

https://photos.google.com/shar...anc3SW9nU3dSVTVWbnhB

Nice consist, my favorite cars.

I left out some of my favorites. But this leaves me something for next time.

@Don McErlean, I must admit, 90 percent of your Box car selections are oldies but goodies, tinplate, Marx, American Flyer, Hefner, Ives.…all uniquely beautiful with a great storyline, now this one is similar but is very beautifully decorated, The Worlds Fair, wow… Well, it’s a cool car and today I’ll bring back the Corvette Car, LCCA…. Happy Railroading Everyone

Here are my dad's N gauge and HO boxcars, and my Burlington Have a good week.

Love the MPC era baby hi-cube cars - here's another one...

Larry - thank you for your comments on my new boxcar from "Lionelville"  no prototype but just fun.  Given that I own a white Corvette, I am going to have to seek out one of those Corvette box cars for sure.  Dave thank you for your comment on my post as well.  Great photo's and boxcars everyone.  Thanks for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

I'm working on my layout, so I just took a couple of pictures on a sidetrack. Excuse the mess in the foreground one project leads to another.

Wow, BoxCar Sunday is here, and we all should bow our heads, say a Prayer for all the men and women that lost their lives in New York on 9-11-2001…We should keep all those First Responders and firemen, policemen, and our military for jobs well done.. Now for Box Car Sunday, Happy Railroading Everyone

Well first let me thank leapinlarry for reminding all of us the seriousness of remembering this day in our history.  Prayers for all those who perished and condolences for their families.

Well my offering this fine Sunday morning is a bit off track, its a refrigerator car not a box car but I think that will be OK.  My wife's beloved younger sister is named Ruth so a couple of weeks ago when we were at a train show and saw this great refr with the livery "Baby Ruth" in big bold red letters, acquisition was a must .

Made by Lionel (MPC) in its early years, the #9854 Baby Ruth refr was uncatalogued in 1972 and then offered in the catalog in 1973-1976.

Well Dave, your layout is looking really good and who doesn't have unfinished projects!  leapinlarry, the brakeman better close that door on the MKT cattle car or we will have a "cow on the tracks"  P.S. for those of you who are not collectors, American Flyer in its early post war years had a great accessory called..."cow on the tracks" in which a cow was mid track and then when the on-coming train hit a sensor it jumped off just in time.

Best wishes for this remembrance Sunday

Don

Dave:  The American Flyer "cow on track" was catalog # 23791 from 1957-1959.  It operated differently than I had first recalled above.  When the operator presses a button, "Bossy" the cow wanders onto the track, and an oncoming train comes to a halt. When "Bossy" returns to the pasture, the train continues on its journey.  Green plastic base and pasture, black and white or brown and white cow.  You can tell since I am not including a picture that (alas) I don't have this electric marvel, but who knows in the future.   I am sure it can be wired to work with Lionel and the scale on most accessories is so off I am sure it will look OK.

Don

Here's my boxcar ( actually a reffer ) for this fine Sunday!   Commensurate with the fall season is the apple harvest.  Here is a Whitehouse Apples reffer freshly out of the paint shop all ready to advertise the Whitehouse brand as it will ship many loads of apples this seasons.  Btw - Quality Control says "There is not one bad apple in those barrels."

This is a Weaver car which I bought back in the early/mid 2000s.

Here are a few paint projects. Various car makers with K-4 decals…

Tom

The Moron and the Monon

Top - True to prototype Lionel Lion Scale PS-1 Moron Boxcar -  the prototype for this car was a single Monon boxcar that was repainted during the night way back when. It actually operated on the railroad with these markings.

Bottom - Lionel Postwar 3494 Monon operating boxcar

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