Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@Krieglok posted:

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Excellent stuff shared by my fellow modelers! Always great to see the interest in boxcars.

Here are a few more paint works by me. Again, MTH and Weaver 40’ cars…

Tom

Beautiful cars as always Tom.

@Bill Swatos posted:

Mark @Sitka, you need that TNT car! @Don McErlean, good to see the "BEEP Vortex" is alive and well on your pike!

Good one Bill can be used for mining for coal How's that NYC passenger set coming?

Mark

@Putnam Division posted:

York.......as a New York Central guy, I realized that non of my single door boxcars were Tuscan. I have a few that are double door. My entire fleet of single door NYC boxcars are either Jade Green or Pacemaker.

I looked for one at York....only one I spied was a Weaver, and, at a good price.

It had never been out of the box!

Peter

I like those old Weavers nice find Peter.

@Bill Swatos posted:

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Sharp Bill, days gone by,

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello BxCrSun fans, I am going to start off with a couple of vintage Lionel 6464's.  Sitka I apologize for repeating your WP (feather) boxcar but I took my pictures last night so am sort of have to go with what I put on line...  So here are

a) the 6464-100 Western Pacific with the yellow feather from 1954-1955

b) the 6464-25 Great Northern from 1953-1954

Both pulled by my United States Air Force "BEEP"

As a slight change, here is a French National Railroad (SNCF) subsidiary STEF refrigerator car.  Different from the US in France from 1938 to 1988 refrigerator cars were operated by a subsidiary of the railroad and were consolidated under the logo "STEF" which means "Societe Francaise de Transport et Entrepots Frigorifiques" - and NO I cannot pronounce this but roughly translated it means the French organization for the operation of refrigerator cars.  This car is Hornby from about 1954

Finally and I post this just for fun.  This is a tinplate HO scale "Dy-no-mite"  boxcar by the Spanish manufacturer TRENEX who produced a whole line of HO in the 1960's.  The company is still in existence but carries a different name.  I found this while on a vacation in Spain with my wife in the late 80's at a flea market set up in a small village we just happened to be driving through.

Well I hope you are having a good weekend and will have a great week.

Best wishes

Don

Great stuff Don I like the 6464’s

Hello

Working on weathering the herd. Atlas Pacemaker next. Enjoy

Here is a nice Atlas Susquehanna that I purchased from Attic Tracks & or my good friend Stan for a very nominal price. I was visiting Stan and told him I really liked the car and ended up taking it home. Stan has a phenomenal layout and extensive reefer collection and facilitates train guys lunch a few times a month.

Have a good Sunday Boxcar Fans! Pennsy switcher working nights. Nice looking Atlas car Dave.

Today it's ice cream and apples.

Refer by MTH.  This is an authentic MTH salesman sample refer with appropriate markings both on the box and the underside of the boxcar.  Who knows this car could be worth real money in 150 years from now! LOL!   I bought it not only for it's artful markings but because it reads "  Ellicott & Sons Ice Cream Ellicott City Maryland"  Ellicott City Maryland is the county seat for the county in which I reside and is a 20 minute drive from my home.  Ellicott City was also the first railroad terminus in the U.S.  Known at that time as Ellicott Mills, Ellicott City was the farthest western point of the B&O railroad.   Andrew Jackson was the first U.S. president to ever board and ride on a train and he boarded the train at Ellicott City.  The original Ellicott City station still stands and the CSX mainline ( the former B&O's " Old Main Line " ) carries trains past this station everyday.

A Weaver Whitehouse Apple Juice Refer.  

Hello Boxcar folks, hope you are having a great weekend.  Its nice and sunny here in central Texas, fine spring day.  Today I have a relatively early postwar boxcar, the 6454 Erie from 1949-1952.  This one, as it does not have the separately attached corner footsteps dates from 1950 or later.  These 9 1/2" boxcars are really high quality cars and were the best of Lionel until the much more famous 6464 series appeared in 1953.  They are not as colorful as the 6464 but to me they look more authentic as most of the boxcars I remember were pretty much just plain brown.

Here is the Lionel 6454 Erie boxcar from 1950-1952 .  Its a heavy duty Bakelite plastic casting, opening doors, heavy frame, and die cast trucks.  Its 9 1/2" long which would approximate a 40 ft car in 0 scale.

The data end of the car, note the heavy die cast rivet detail and the detail on the door latch and handle

Here is the Erie logo end of the car with the cast in ladders and brake wheel support.

Hope you have a good rest of the weekend and a happy / healthy week

Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday! Here’s mine for today. This is a old one I restored a couple years ago I can’t remember who made it but the sides are paper and I Hand Painted the whole thing and added some  scratch details to it and new Ice Hatches, Trucks and Couplers.

Boxcar Sunday again?   Seems like it comes around every week😉

Two newsprint cars await switching in Waterbury, having recently arrived on  the NHRR from Maybrook yard.   The Spruce Falls car is delivering newsprint to a NY Times subsidiary in Hartford.  The second car will be put on the New Britain local.  

Both cars were born of Atlas 40’ 1970s insulated plug door production, originally C& O.  Those cares make great paper service cars, since I just need to mask the door and paint the car body.  Rustoleum auto primer was followed by Scalecoat II —-I miss them, but still have a few cans.  Decals are Champ.  

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

Boxcar Sunday again?   Seems like it comes around every week😉

Two newsprint cars await switching in Waterbury, having recently arrived on  the NHRR from Maybrook yard.   The Spruce Falls car is delivering newsprint to a NY Times subsidiary in Hartford.  The second car will be put on the New Britain local.  

Both cars were born of Atlas 40’ 1970s insulated plug door production, originally C& O.  Those cares make great paper service cars, since I just need to mask the door and paint the car body.  Rustoleum auto primer was followed by Scalecoat II —-I miss them, but still have a few cans.  Decals are Champ.  

Don, that's a good-looking car, nice work on the graphics.

Thanks, Dave

A new pair of NYO&W double sheathed wood boxcars sit ready to be spotted for merchandize service. As a matter of fact, the O&W had few cars that were fit for interchange service with connecting railroads.  In order to look realistic, these need some weathering and aging. The cars were special addition units from JR Junction is Syracuse, New York

Chicago Great Western boxcar # 92146, an Intermountain kit I picked up at wheaton train show. Highly detailed.  First one I had built,  had to assemble the trucks (pita) from many parts which didn't roll properly so I switched them out.  All the individual grabs and brake lines are separate parts.  Took me about 2 weeks to assemble,  but I  enjoyed it.  Needs some weathering to cover up my sloppy glue runs on it.

Nice adaptation to 3-rail scale, Bill.  

Great work.

@third rail  Nice work, I also have a kit to build. Lots of tiny parts, and my glue jobs are historic for the amount of over run. That is a judicious use of weathering to mask the flaws.

@ScoutingDad posted:

@third rail  Nice work, I also have a kit to build. Lots of tiny parts, and my glue jobs are historic for the amount of over run. That is a judicious use of weathering to mask the flaws.

Thanks,even using a 10/0 brush (very small bristles) I get glue runs.  I've found though that you can minimize the glue runs on these models by gluing from the inside of it since there are many drilled holes.

@third rail posted:

Thanks,even using a 10/0 brush (very small bristles) I get glue runs.  I've found though that you can minimize the glue runs on these models by gluing from the inside of it since there are many drilled holes.

Good advice.  I’m in the same camp of always having glue runs.

My one and only contribution this week…I’ve been painting cabooses and gondolas, but managed to finish one boxcar.

A reworked MTH 19th Century boxcar with added details and repainted by me into Hocking Valley RR using K4 decals.

I will likely weather the car, as it is rather drab…

Tom

I scream, you scream, we ALL scream for ice cream!

Thanks to @trumpettrain for the inspiration to get this MTH reefer with wonderful colorful 1890's style ice cream parlor artwork and graphics. It reminds me of the Farrell's in the North Riverside Mall I used to frequent with friends when I was in high school in the Chicago area. And just in time for ice cream season!

Good Morning,

The  P&W had excellent red boxcars, but as we know, red fades.  Here is a Weaver car “faded,” taking on freight n Waterbury on the NHRR.

Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday to all.

Ten boxcars plus caboose is the maximum I can run because of my reverse loops, as shown in the video below:

On the point is one of my favorite locomotives: an MTH Proto 3 NY Central RS3 that I purchased from one of our Forum Sponsors, JR Junction Hobby Shop. This model was a exclusively made for JR Junction, who donated a substantial portion of the sales proceeds to an upstate NY railroad historical society. Arnold

Happy Boxcar Sunday! Here is a 6454 PW Lionel NYC from 1948 / 49 Brown / White with brown door in really great shape.  Lionel made 2 other cars bright-orange with Black print, and a burnt-orange car with white print all had brown doors.

Here's a Great Northern boxcar by Weaver shown here in its' natural habitat.  I applied lite weathering to this car to give a sense of age many years of use by the railroad.  Since I model the transition era, railroads owned more boxcars than any other type of car during that time.   I would think that boxcars didn't sit around for too long and occasionally ( but rarely )  saw a wash rack and/or received a fresh coat of paint, depending on the railroad owner.  ....  Hence my lite weathering job.  

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's a Great Northern boxcar by Weaver shown here in its' natural habitat.  I applied lite weathering to this car to give a sense of age many years of use by the railroad.  Since I model the transition era, railroads owned more boxcars than any other type of car during that time.   I would think that boxcars didn't sit around for too long and occasionally ( but rarely )  saw a wash rack and/or received a fresh coat of paint, depending on the railroad owner.  ....  Hence my lite weathering job.  

Akthough I have rarely weathered, but am thinking about it, I almost always prefer a light touch when it comes to weathering. Like everything you do, Patrick, your weathering is outstanding IMO.

If I weather, it will be with chalk dust. When I did such weathering 25 years ago (my son loved weathering when he was a little boy), I remember mostly using light colored chalk dust like yellow, gray or white. Arnold

I forgot I put these under my table.

Hello boxcar fans.  Many of you know or might remember I named my fictitious RR the "Leonardtown and Savannah" for two places we lived or still do live.  Now I went to a Train Show this weekend in Austin, Tx and found out two things...first there is an actual RR that approximated my fantasy line called the "Savannah and Atlanta".   Second, I found a Weaver box car lettered for the S&A and of course it had to go home with me.

A little about the S&A.  It was first formed through purchase and merger of some lines dating back to the 19th century in about 1914.  It ran from a junction with the Georgia RR in Waynesboro, Ga to Savannah. Total mileage was about 150 miles.  It was bought by Central of Georgia in 1951 and later became part of the Southern Railway System.  By 1962 most of the central portion of the RR was abandoned but the western end, into the kaolin rich mineral deposits, is still active today and still used by Norfolk Southern.  It operated a Waynesboro to Savannah mixed freight and passenger train via scheduled service using its own terminal in Savannah until 1959.  In the steam days it operated Mikado and Mountain types owning several of each type.

So enough with history.  Here is my new, Weaver, Savannah & Atlanta box car, just unpacked and fresh from the box.  Its a scale 40 foot boxcar and measures out to exactly 10" without the couplers.

Hope everyone has a good week.  Best wishes to all

Don

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@SIRT- WOW and here I thought I was all alone!  Neat job of weathering and I really like the "load" did you do that yourself or are those inserts a commercial product?

Don

Good afternoon Boxcar fans another old Atlas O I think one of the most better colors of this B&O than the other manufacturers I’ve seen.

Cases are taken from the internet, resized, names , numbers added using M.S. Excel on the PC. Loads are MFD blocks silicone in place.

Atlas

I've been delinquent here.  This is not the best video, but it shows some boxcars.

@Mark Boyce posted:

I've been delinquent here.  This is not the best video, but it shows some boxcars.

Very nice Mark. You're in the process of building a masterpiece of a layout. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Very nice Mark. You're in the process of building a masterpiece of a layout. Arnold

Thank you, Arnold!  At the rate I’m going, it will be the unfinished masterpiece 😄

@SIRT- Thanks for the information.

Don

A few boxcars running on my newly finished curved, hinged lift out.

Gene