Knowing I'm a big Yankee and Yogi Berra fan, a local model railroader known as Rusty Rick weathered and decorated this boxcar for me:
It's my most unique boxcar.
If you get a chance to see the documentary film, It Ain't Over, which is the Yogi Berra story, do so. You won't be disappointed, it's wonderful in every way.
Arnold
You know Arnold with photoshop, someone could insert your face into the decals so you could be a ballplayer. Wonder if anyone would notice. Nice custom car.
@ScoutingDad posted:You know Arnold with photoshop, someone could insert your face into the decals so you could be a ballplayer. Wonder if anyone would notice. Nice custom car.
Thanks, Scouting Dad, but I prefer Yogi's face to mine, and not just because he was a much better clutch hitter than me. LOL.
Among other things, I think Yogi was one of the greatest men that ever lived.
Arnold - would not want to mess with Yogi's face, but you could appear as the ump behind the catcher or the pitcher at the right profile angle. An umpire and attorney are kind of in the same line of work. 
Sitka, nice New Haven boxes, Arnold, nice Yogi car.
Good afternoon everyone here on the Box Car sunday thread. Wow, so many cabooses and set in awesome scenes. Happy Railroading Everyone 
@Bill Park posted:Sitka, nice New Haven boxes, Arnold, nice Yogi car.
Thanks Bill Menards have eight, need to work on some ore cars. Mark
@Arnold D. Cribari posted:Thanks, Scouting Dad, but I prefer Yogi's face to mine, and not just because he was a much better clutch hitter than me. LOL.
Among other things, I think Yogi was one of the greatest men that ever lived.
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera likely thought the same when they created Yogi Bear...
For this week's BoxCAR Sunday, we have Weaver's take on Kaiser-Frazier Motors' "Henry J:"
Named for KFM's co-founder and CEO, Henry J. Kaiser, and marketed from 1950-54, the Henry J was intended to be America's most economical car but with a little style. What is represented here is likely the "Corsair Deluxe" from 1953, the most "luxurious" version of the Henry J. It featured a "flathead" inline six built by recently-acquired Willys-Overland, the same company that built the venerable "Jeep." Sears even sold an "Allstate" version of the base Henry J in 1952-53, complete with a unique "badge," grille and hubcaps. Of course it also had an Allstate battery and tires, but poor sales (A Sears car?!) led to them dropping the brand. Unfortunately, overall Henry J sales never really materialized either so the entire line was discontinued in 1954. Nevertheless, quite a few Henry J's are proudly displayed today at car shows across the nation and around the world.
Perhaps more interesting than just his car company is the man himself and the other organizations he founded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser
If we still had CEO's like Henry J. Kaiser, I think we'd still be making our goods here in America and the workers who make them would be better off. Just sayin'...
@Dave Ripp. posted:Very nice-looking train Mel. Are the first 3 MTH'S & the Express by K-Line?
Correct! New Haven 36000 is by K-Line - the others are MTH.
MELGAR
@Arnold D. Cribari posted:Love your Boston & Albany boxcar, Tom.
Thank you, Arnold!
All great looking cars from everyone this week!
Tom
OK well I know it isn't Sunday so I am a day late! In addition, this isn't a box car, its a stock car so I am doubly in error, sorry but I hope you like this. In my boyhood, late 40's early 50's we lived in Bloomfield, NJ and my parents would take me to a local zoo, the Turtleback Zoo in West Orange, NJ. Recently I found out that in 1985 Lionel made a Giraffe car labeled for Turtleback Zoo so I had to find one and I did. Even more amazing, I contacted my Granddaughter who now lives in East Orange and discovered that the zoo is still in existence and still operating. WOW...so to celebrate, here is the Turtleback Zoo Giraffe car from 1985.
Sorry I am late everyone.
Best Wishes
Don
@Don McErlean posted:OK well I know it isn't Sunday so I am a day late! In addition, this isn't a box car, its a stock car so I am doubly in error, sorry but I hope you like this. In my boyhood, late 40's early 50's we lived in Bloomfield, NJ and my parents would take me to a local zoo, the Turtleback Zoo in West Orange, NJ. Recently I found out that in 1985 Lionel made a Giraffe car labeled for Turtleback Zoo so I had to find one and I did. Even more amazing, I contacted my Granddaughter who now lives in East Orange and discovered that the zoo is still in existence and still operating. WOW...so to celebrate, here is the Turtleback Zoo Giraffe car from 1985.
Sorry I am late everyone.
Best Wishes
Don
Cool car! Before I was married, we used to mountain bike in South Mountain Reservation. It bordered the zoo and we could ride ride behind the back of the wolf pens. They would stare at us with those creepy eyes! My kids also went there when they were in grade school, all the way from Morris County. Amazing place…not far from the Lackawanna Railroad Morristown Line…
Tom
Thanks Tom. It’s great to hear someone else’s common experience. South Mountain was a beautiful place and your kids going to Turtleback as a class trip brought back pleasant memories to me.
Happy Independence Day
Don
Good morning boxcar fans. Here is a MTH Electro Motive Division 40-foot FRIGIFRATER boxcar. I can find no prototype pictures so it may be made up, but I still like it. There was an Electro Motive Division generator boxcar, but it was blue.
Rat infested Yankee Stadium
needs more beer and groceries to go along with the pizza, so these reefers and boxcars are on the way there:
LOL, Arnold
Two sides of a boxcar train as it rolls through town. 
New York Central 0-8-0 #415 pulled three boxcars on my layout this week.
1) Brookside Milk (Bellows Falls, VT) - MTC 1835 by Atlas O
2) Narragansett Brewing (Cranston, RI) - NBRX 11 by Atlas O
3) Boston & Maine 73199 by MTH
MELGAR
K-Line
My meager contribution for this week is a MTH 19th century box car, factory lettered for the PS&N. I added numerous details and renumbered the car. I did a couple washes with Vallejo paints and finally a shot of flat finish…
I also gave the same treatment and mods to a MTH 19th century stock car. Added many details, but not wanting to digress from the theme of the thread, I will just post one pic of it…
Tom
@Krieglok posted:My meager contribution for this week is a MTH 19th century box car, factory lettered for the PS&N. I added numerous details and renumbered the car. I did a couple washes with Vallejo paints and finally a shot of flat finish…
I also gave the same treatment and mods to a MTH 19th century stock car. Added many details, but not wanting to digress from the theme of the thread, I will just post one pic of it…
Tom
Tom, those boxcars look spectacular. You're weathering and detail work is phenomenal.
Menards New Haven
@Dave Ripp. posted:Tom, those boxcars look spectacular. You're weathering and detail work is phenomenal.
Thank you Dave!
While not as detailed as some scratch built or kits cars, the MTH cars do provide a solid foundation to work with. Adding some details quickly brings them up into a new level of realism that I like, taking into account my limited fine modeling skills.
Many of the factory paint schemes are good starts to add some extra decals to, and for light weathering.
Tom
A $5.00 scale reefer, built from a kit, bought long ago with several others, just because I like the advertising.
Another $5.00 reefer from the same batch. Probably bought at York in the late 1980's.
@Dave Ripp. posted:Good morning boxcar fans. Here is a MTH Electro Motive Division 40-foot FRIGIFRATER boxcar. I can find no prototype pictures so it may be made up, but I still like it. There was an Electro Motive Division generator boxcar, but it was blue.
I believe EMD built these, or at least considered it seriously beginning in 1955. I found an original 1955 builder's plate drawing along with what looks like a prototype photo on an auction site it is forbidden to reference here. After all, GM built the Frigidaire appliance line so why not reefers?
@Bill Swatos posted:I believe EMD built these, or at least considered it seriously beginning in 1955. I found an original 1955 builder's plate drawing along with what looks like a prototype photo on an auction site it is forbidden to reference here. After all, GM built the Frigidaire appliance line so why not reefers?
Bill, not forbidden to refer to eBay. Just not allowed to post links to eBay, or refer to specific sellers or items on eBay, as per TOS, if my understanding is correct.
Weaver
Good morning boxcar fans. For this week here are my EJ&E boxcars. MTH 50-foot and 2 Weaver 40- footers.
PW Lionel 6464-175 Rock Island Silver / Blue Type 1 SB Door from 54,55 Have a good Boxcar Sunday
Waldbaums refrigerated boxcar PSRX #1006 (Atlas O) and New York Central double-sheathed boxcar #161523 (MTH Premier) ran behind my New York Central 0-6-0 steam engine (see video) this week.
MELGAR
It's the 1954 World Series and Annheiser Busch beer is being delivered in this boxcar/reefer to the Polo Grounds.
Arnold
My latest projects…
Weaver boxcar I stripped, repainted and decaled for the Western Railway of Alabama. I used K4 decals…
Next is an MTH 19th Century reefer. I stripped it, repainted it and lettered it for a DL&W Ice car. Some minor details added. I used a number of various decals from K4. This was an experiment on my part. I will do another, perhaps with larger lettering. Weathered with Vallejo washes and paints.
Tom
I strayed away from MPC with this recent Weaver PS-1 40ft boxcar purchase.
Then realized that I have a Lionel modern 6464 version of the same paint scheme.
K line die cast scale boxcar. 
@Bill Swatos posted:I believe EMD built these, or at least considered it seriously beginning in 1955. I found an original 1955 builder's plate drawing along with what looks like a prototype photo on an auction site it is forbidden to reference here. After all, GM built the Frigidaire appliance line so why not reefers?
Bill, Thanks so much for emailing me the information on this car. I like it even better now that I know it was real.
Playboy, anyone? Not THAT Playboy, THIS one from Weaver:
Not to be confused with Jordan Motor Car Company's Playboy from the early '20's, the Playboy depicted above was built by the Playboy Motor Car Corporation of Buffalo, NY. PMC was founded in 1947 by Lou Horwitz, a Packard dealer at the time whose goal was to quickly bring a super-affordable sub-compact car to America's postwar market. His intent was to produce the car from outsourced components and offer it at $900. It was one of the first cars to feature a retractable hardtop and was powered by a 40 hp Continental flathead four through a three-speed manual transmission. The Playboy was clearly a "Smart Car" before the "Smart Car" was a thing.
Unfortunately, the wave of bad publicity from Preston Tucker's "failure" (sabotage, really) washed away any hopes of developing a dealer network for the Playboy and only 97 cars were produced and sold before the company went bankrupt in 1951. Of those original 97, 43 are believed to survive today. In addition, one "soft-top" convertible prototype that was never completed during the company's tenure was finished by Lou Horwitz's grandson and also survives to this day.
@Bill Swatos posted:Playboy, anyone? Not THAT Playboy, THIS one from Weaver:
Not to be confused with Jordan Motor Car Company's Playboy from the early '20's, the Playboy depicted above was built by the Playboy Motor Car Corporation of Buffalo, NY. PMC was founded in 1947 by Lou Horwitz, a Packard dealer at the time whose goal was to quickly bring a super-affordable sub-compact car to America's postwar market. His intent was to produce the car from outsourced components and offer it at $900. It was one of the first cars to feature a retractable hardtop and was powered by a 40 hp Continental flathead four through a three-speed manual transmission. The Playboy was clearly a "Smart Car" before the "Smart Car" was a thing.
Unfortunately, the wave of bad publicity from Preston Tucker's "failure" (sabotage, really) washed away any hopes of developing a dealer network for the Playboy and only 97 cars were produced and sold before the company went bankrupt in 1951. Of those original 97, 43 are believed to survive today. In addition, one "soft-top" convertible prototype that was never completed during the company's tenure was finished by Lou Horwitz's grandson and also survives to this day.
"Playboy. anyone?"
These two boxcar beauties jiggle as they travel up and down on their 3 rails of adventure.
@das boot posted:"Playboy. anyone?"
These two boxcar beauties jiggle as they travel up and down on their 3 rails of adventure.
Perfect, along with the "Silver Meteor" beauty, for "Boys' Night" on the layout!
I'm a little late to the party but I'll bring my own Playmate.
Bob
Good morning boxcar fans. For this week here are my Canadian National boxcars. The Grey one is by Lionel the Blue by Weaver.
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