Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

I ran New Haven Boxcars 35238, 33406 and 78000 behind New Haven Alco S-2 #0615 on my 12'-by-8' layout this week.

MELGAR

Scale Craft, Walthers, and Athearn from way back

Happy Father's Day! PW Lionel Western Pacific 6464-100 from 1954, Type2A Long Feather

Blast from the past...

@SIRT posted:

Blast from the past...

Great work 

@SIRT- while I am crying over the boxcar, I love the exceptional modeling work!!  Super job!

Here is a short video of my "new" dual reduction motored,Marx 666 and a string of Marx  boxcars, along with an "Allstate" tender and bay window caboose.

Best wishes everyone

Don

Hi guys, I don't have anything for you guys today, but I did want to say what a great collections of box cars! Steve what a wonderful job on the smashed box car! I just might have to try that on something I don't really care about! LOL

Brought to you by Weaver, a couple of "Blue Oval Beauties:"

The Continental Mark II was produced by Ford's short-lived Continental division in 1956 and 1957 and was the only car the division produced. Meant to compete with the world's finest luxury cars, the Continental was built almost exclusively by hand in Allen Park, MI and was the most expensive American car at the time. It featured the "top-of-the-line" drivetrain from the Lincoln division.

The 1949 Mercury featured the most technologically-sophisticated version of Ford's venerable "flathead" V8. This engine soon became the favorite of "hot-rodders" in the '50's since it could be essentially "dropped in" to a deuce coupe. That old girl may have had an "indian blanket" upholstery job, but that '49 flattie meant she could blow the doors off just about everybody on the Pomona strip!

Just a couple blanks for this week. They are MTH 19th Century boxcars. They were MTH commemorative cars that I stripped. I added details like poling pockets, new brake wheels and stems, brake platforms, turnbuckles and tack boards.

They are painted with Tru-Color Boxcar red. The first car is a Boston and Albany and the second car is undetermined but will probably become a “Big Four” car.

They will be presented next week!

Tom

Railking 50’ Double Plug Door:

K-Line N&W Reefer:

Frank’s Roundhouse, or KMT, or AMT - I don’t know how to distinguish one from the other.

Mark:

The boxcar is a Frank's Roundhouse issue. The AMT/KMT cars were not decorated with all the data that yours has. It uses the same tooling as the AMT/KMT cars.

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Thanks, Arthur!

My goodness, I can't believe that I am first out of the gate this fine Sunday, but so be it.  Many of us, especially old ones like me, remember the yummy chocolate drink mix Mom used to (once in awhile) let us put into our glass of milk. It was called BOSCO!   Well Lionel liked BOSCO as well and made several versions of their 0-27 (short, non-opening doors) boxcars labeled for that BOSCO product.  They came  3 colors.  So here is the Lionel # 6014 PRR BOSCO box car trio.  They date to 1958 and IAW the collectors guides while the red and orange are quite common  the white is considerably more scarce.

Hope your weekend is going well and you have a happy, healthy, and productive upcoming week.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

My goodness, I can't believe that I am first out of the gate this fine Sunday, but so be it.  Many of us, especially old ones like me, remember the yummy chocolate drink mix Mom used to (once in awhile) let us put into our glass of milk. It was called BOSCO!   Well Lionel liked BOSCO as well and made several versions of their 0-27 (short, non-opening doors) boxcars labeled for that BOSCO product.  They came  3 colors.  So here is the Lionel # 6014 PRR BOSCO box car trio.  They date to 1958 and IAW the collectors guides while the red and orange are quite common while the white is considerably more scarce.

Hope your weekend is going well and you have a happy, healthy, and productive upcoming week.

Best Wishes

Don

Very nice collection Don. I got called into work @ 3:30 am. I'll post eventually. Thanks for starting the thread for this week.

Thanks Dave, I really like this thread, although I don't have too many boxcars to post.  I hope your early call wasn't any sort of serious accident

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Thanks Dave, I really like this thread, although I don't have too many boxcars to post.  I hope your early call wasn't any sort of serious accident

Don

Thanks Don, just bad weather.

Bosco Boxcar Sunday

Oh, I love Bosco!
That's the drink for me!
Chocolate flavored Bosco
Is mighty good for me.
Mommy puts it in my milk
For extra energy.
Bosco gives me iron
And sunshine vitamin D.
Oh, I love Bosco!
That's the drink for me!

There's also a less-than-polite version of the above jingle.

Happy Sunday Boxcar fans. I recently bought this Weaver Timken car. It was on my acquisition list for a long time.

I think the D&N was a subsidiary of the SP and operated in Arizona near the southern border with Mexico.  There were several mining operations in that area in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s.  Doesn't fit into my layout's era and location, but it is a neat car by Weaver and gets run regularly.

D&N Railroad Co. ---

I live in Tucson, which is about 40 miles west of Dragoon, a tiny town on the former SP mainline that lies in a pass in the Dragoon Mts. between Wilcox and Benson. I was intrigued by your reference to the Dragoon & Northern RR., which I had never heard of, so I checked David Myrick's Railroads of Arizona, Vol. 1, The Southern Roads for more information (p. 337). Briefly, a railroad was incorporated around 1906 for the projected purpose of connecting the SP at Dragoon to a couple of small copper mines near Johnson, AZ (north of Dragoon). It was originally incorporated as the Dragoon Mountain Railway and Development Company, then reincorporated as the Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railroad Company the same year. In 1907 the proposed road became the Johnson, Dragoon Mountain and Northern Northern Railway Co. and finally ended up in 1908 as the Johnson, Dragoon & Northern Railway. Money and supplies were hard to come by, and construction did not begin until 1908. The railroad eventually comprised 8.13 miles of mainline and 1.29 miles of sidings and mine spurs. Copper prices plummeted after the end of the First World War, and the line was abandoned in 1925.

The road was probably referred to informally as the "Dragoon & Northern," which would make sense because the mines at Johnson were north of Dragoon, and the official incorporated name is kind of a mouth full and isn't a good description of the line's actual orientation.

Our favorite bakery for the past 40 years.  MTH 30-71101 Danish Bakery.

@Arthur P. Bloom- Arthur I had forgotten about the "jingle".  I will put that on paper and keep it with the BOSCO cars!!

Thanks

Don

Dragoon and Northern was the GPDTTOM 2002 Ore Car 6-52279, made by Lionel.

K-Line

Here are two for this week:

The 50’ RF&P is a Weaver car which needed only paint and decals.

The New Haven  is U.S. Hobbies kit which came in a box some years ago.  I wasn’t as much aware of prototype accuracy, so please forgive….  The paint scheme is prototypical, just on the wrong car body.

Oops…

Joe Hayter's tribute to Packard:

While Packard's "inverted bathtub" styling of 1948-50 was viewed as sleek and modern by some, many car buyers thought it stodgy and old-fashioned. Regardless, with this styling, Packard reached the pinnacle of the "fat-fender" look of the '40's and early '50's.

Bosco car for your jingle, PW Lionel 6014 from 1958

This week I ran Maine Central #36123 (Atlas O 8687), New Haven #33406 (MTH Premier), and Boston & Maine ice storage car #13266 (Atlas O 6737-2) behind B&M 2-8-0 steam locomotive #2403 (Weaver).

Several days ago, I was asked for information about the B&M ice storage car. It seems that eight such cars may have existed. I found photographs of two cars that appear to be identical to the Atlas O model. They were taken at North Station in Boston. One of the cars is #13212. No further information for now.

MELGAR

Well, since I missed out last Sunday, I punished myself and stayed up late to post the first entry for July 2nd.

These are two MTH 19th Century cars that I stripped and repainted. I added details that were missing and used Tru-Color paints to color the cars. I then used K4 decal sets to letter the cars…

First is a Boston and Albany boxcar…

Next is a Houston East and West Texas Boxcar…

Tom

Love your Boston & Albany boxcar, Tom.

In this short video, a freight train with a TMCC Lehigh Valley diesel switcher on the point, runs by the ball park. It includes a few of my favorite boxcars:

Arnold

@Krieglok posted:

Well, since I missed out last Sunday, I punished myself and stayed up late to post the first entry for July 2nd.

These are two MTH 19th Century cars that I stripped and repainted. I added details that were missing and used Tru-Color paints to color the cars. I then used K4 decal sets to letter the cars…

First is a Boston and Albany boxcar…

Next is a Huston East and West Texas Boxcar…

Tom

Worth the wait Tom!

Happy Boxcar Sunday. For this week an MTH 50-foot Illinois Terminal.

I keep a New Haven Railroad engine and freight train with four NH boxcars on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

I keep a New Haven Railroad engine and freight train with four NH boxcars on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Very nice-looking train Mel. Are the first 3 MTH'S & the Express by K-Line?

Great looking boxcars Mel

Atlas:

Happy Boxcar Sunday, Going with some New Haven cars for this wet Smoke filled Sunday in upstate NY