Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Wow one great line up of Boxcars today Guys All are very nice looking thanks for sharing.

@Krieglok posted:

Thanks Lee!

The results of my first weeks on retirement….

MTH Premier 40’ cars…stripped, painted and decaled by me…

The next group is all MTH 19th Century cars. They are all MTH factory paint jobs that I detailed and touched up…

Tom

Tom your welcome and sorry for my tardiness on Congratulations on your retirement enjoy it. That C&EI looks awesome.

Hi All,

Retirement=more time for an excellent railroad modeler to enjoy his craft.  Have a blast, Tom!

Here is the third in my series of newsprint service cars.  My NHRR is set in the late 1960s when there were many newspapers.  Those are the commodities people used to read in order to be informed, rational citizens in a democracy.  But I digress.

Newsprint delivery was a big business for the New Haven, so I add insulated 40’ cars whenever I can get the decals.  The car is 70s Atlas, Scalecoat paint (some of my last) and Champ decals.  

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

Hi All,

Retirement=more time for an excellent railroad modeler to enjoy his craft.  Have a blast, Tom!

Here is the third in my series of newsprint service cars.  My NHRR is set in the late 1960s when there were many newspapers.  Those are the commodities people used to read in order to be informed, rational citizens in a democracy.  But I digress.

Newsprint delivery was a big business for the New Haven, so I add insulated 40’ cars whenever I can get the decals.  The car is 70s Atlas, Scalecoat paint (some of my last) and Champ decals.  

Amen. Neat car, too!

Happy Boxcar Sunday. For this week a couple of custom run MTH Swift Refrigerator Lines made exclusively for Berwyn's Trains.

I picked up only one car at York last week, and it was a Weaver B&O M-53 wagontop.  This is my third wagontop boxcar (I also have two express cars), and each one represents a different era as far as paint schemes go.  These are the cars I have now:

Boxcar Red w/Flat Panel door. Flat door replaced by lightweight Youngstown doors beginning late 40s. "Early Kuhler", 1937-1940.

Western Maryland Red w/Youngstown Style Door. Received Youndstown doors in late 40s. "Early 13 Great States", 1945-1946.  This is my new car.

Western Maryland Red w/Youngstown Style Door. Received Youndstown doors in late 40s. "Post War 13 Great States", 1946-1955.

Right now I am missing the "Transition Kuhler", 1940, and the "Wartime Kuhler, 1940-1945.  Not sure if Weaver or Atlas made those schemes but I will keep looking.  These cars may still have been in these schemes in the late 40s.  The cars with the large "B & O" on the side started showing up in 1955, too late for my layout.

Some of my dad's HO Swift cars from the 70's.

Kitbashed X29b Box Car in Merchandise Service paint:

Made from mounting a larger boxcar body to an X29 chassis.   Which is how it was done at 1:1 scale

Details at

https://ogrforum.com/...ndise-service-boxcar

@CAPPilot posted:

I picked up only one car at York last week, and it was a Weaver B&O M-53 wagontop.  This is my third wagontop boxcar (I also have two express cars), and each one represents a different era as far as paint schemes go.  These are the cars I have now:

Boxcar Red w/Flat Panel door. Flat door replaced by lightweight Youngstown doors beginning late 40s. "Early Kuhler", 1937-1940.

Western Maryland Red w/Youngstown Style Door. Received Youndstown doors in late 40s. "Early 13 Great States", 1945-1946.  This is my new car.

Western Maryland Red w/Youngstown Style Door. Received Youndstown doors in late 40s. "Post War 13 Great States", 1946-1955.

Right now I am missing the "Transition Kuhler", 1940, and the "Wartime Kuhler, 1940-1945.  Not sure if Weaver or Atlas made those schemes but I will keep looking.  These cars may have still be in these schemes in the late 40s.  The cars with the large "B & O" on the side started showing up in 1955, too late for my layout.

Ron - none of your photos are showing.

My featured boxcar ( well billboard reffer ) is a Robin Hood Beer reffer by MTH ( Premier ).   Here it is shown in its' natural habitat as it is being unloaded on a team track.  

A few different cars from MTH.

These two are factory painted with details added…

This car is a MTH 19th Century car I stripped, painted and detailed. Decaled with K4 decals…

Tom

@John Sethian posted:

Kitbashed X29b Box Car in Merchandise Service paint:

Made from mounting a larger boxcar body to an X29 chassis.   Which is how it was done at 1:1 scale

Details at

https://ogrforum.com/...ndise-service-boxcar

WOW!! Jonathan this car looks awesome!!  Fabulous job!!

Well  with Dave Ripp and Sitka showing "Swift" boxcars, I can't resist the temptation to add onto the list...Here is a Lionel 0-27 type boxcar from 1962-1963, the #6050 Swift boxcar.

Here is the full view showing what at the time was Swift's logo and the fact that this car was simulating the "Refrigerator Express Line" so I called it a box car but I guess it was officially a refrigerator car although it certainly does not have those details.

Here is one more detail for the 6050, Lionel included it in its line of "Savings Bank" cars, including the coin slot in the roof.

This was supposed to encourage young people to save their money to buy more trains!  Unfortunately in the 1960's they were buying rocket ships and slot cars.

Best wishes everyone, hope your new week goes well

Don

@Krieglok,

I'm not familiar with those cars, so I can't tell what details you added.  Would you be able to provide more specifics please?

@trumpettrain posted:

Ron - none of your photos are showing.

Patrick, thanks.  They show up on all three of my family's computers.  Anyway, reposted them so I hope that fixes the issue.

Two Atlas cars for this Sunday…

First, an Erie Lackawanna waiting to be unloaded…

Next, an NYS&W that just begs the question - do you think it was carrying a load of hats???

@texgeekboy posted:

@Krieglok,

I'm not familiar with those cars, so I can't tell what details you added.  Would you be able to provide more specifics please?

Sure.

The cars are MTH cars, roughly based on various 19th century cars. They are sold under the Railking brand.

The various types of cars, boxcars, reefers, tank cars, stock cars and gondolas, all have various levels of detail that are very basic from the factory. The reefers have the most items common on period rail cars, such as grab irons, brake platforms and poling pockets, in addition to the brake wheel and stirrups.

Depending on the type car, I add new grab irons, tack boards, brake wheels, brake stems, brake platforms, and poling pockets. The parts are either scratch built or commercially available detail parts. If it a factory painted scheme I like, I add the details and touch up the additions with matching paint. Occasionally, I add additional decals. Here is a factory car with added details…

If the car is a candidate for a total repainting, I strip the car and then add the details. After priming and painting, decals are applied. Here are a couple cars with paint stripped and details added…

I also add pseudo turnbuckles to the truss rods on the underside of the car…as seen here…

Finally, some cars receive additional “carpentry” such as additional planking, new decks or new roof coverings before painting.

Some cars are weathered. Here is a modified, factory painted car with some light weathering…

Hope this helps. I try to add detail to cars that are pretty stout to begin with, keeping in mind they are not fine models, but rather cars that will see a lot of use with details that will be durable.

Tom

I just got this Crown Model Products outside-braced 40-footer in SP:

Living in SoCal, I really did need at least one piece of rolling stock that would have plied the rails here.

Happy Boxcar Sunday. For this week 3 Lionel GRAVE'S MORTUARY SUPPLY CO boxcars. They also produced a tank car in this livery and though they sold well the series ended.

Here’s a quickie photo comparison between similar K-Line and Lionel boxcars.

On a rainy day in upstate NY, couple of Scout-Type Boxcars #6014 Baby Ruth PRR from 57 and a 6014 Bosco PRR from 58. God Speed All

My cars are BS…..my contribution this week is a pair of boxcars with the initials “BS”. One is a MTH 19th Century car, refinished in a Buffalo and Susquehanna scheme. The second car is a MTH Premier car, refinished into Birmingham Southern Railroad.

Both cars were stripped, painted, detailed and decaled by me….

Tom

Well, BxCrSun fans, its a very dreary / wet day here in central Texas...after a brutal summer of months of dry HOT heat it is a relief and our reservoir is nearly back to normal, so I guess that's good.  So in keeping with the weather, I thought I would post a little "shower" of my miscellaneous box cars / refer's just for fun.

Here are two Hafner cars.  First the # 13789 Hafner Automobile Car (6 3/4" L) , from the late 1930's to the early 1940's

The much smaller (5 5/16" L) and w/o a sliding door or added trim the unnumbered Hafner Refrigerator car (early pre war and post war).

The Danish, Pioneerexpresson, refrigerator car or "KOLE Vogn" 1950's

Two HO but lithographed tin boxcars, the Karl Bub German Railways car and the Trennex (Spain) TNT explosives storage car.  Both from the 1950's.

Finally, since like me, Sitka is also sitting in the rain in upstate NY, I include a picture of the ORANGE Bosco car to go along with his red one...!

Best Wishes to all, hope your week goes well.

Don

Two Central Railroad of New Jersey boxcars ran behind CNJ 0-6-0 #107 on my 10'-by-5' layout.

MELGAR

My MTH Premier Signal Man Boxcar.  This car broke within 6 months after I purchased it new.  The door would no longer automatically slide open. Unfortunately I misplaced the sales receipt so the retailer would not take the car back for warranty work, which is understandable.   The authorized MTH repairman to which I then took the car, could not locate any parts to make this car operable again.   The only parts MTH had available were for the RailKing version of this car and unfortunately those parts do not work in a Premier car.  Facing this fact, I had the repairman just make the car operable without the door sliding open.  I picked the car up from the repairman when I was at York last week.   This car is now part of a long mixed freight train traversing my layout.  I love the NYC Pacemaker paint scheme!   I had an operating  NYC Pacemaker boxcar with my first Lionel train set and although that car didn't have the mechanical technology of this MTH car, the Lionel car still works.  

The opposite side of the car with door open showing the cargo.

The 2 new Lionel Christmas Fezziwig Cars.

I had commented on another thread that the reindeer car could have been fit with a Gi-raffe mechanism so that Rudolph could pop his head out the top.

Bob

Few old 1938 ish Westbrook wood and cardboard boxcars riding on Auel sprung trucks.

PRSL RCA box cars

The  connection is RCA had a transmitter on the Jersey shore.
MJRY CO (Manufacturers Railway) Western Electric box car.

The connection here is I spent 43 years with MA Bell.

@pennsyfan posted:

PRSL RCA box cars

The  connection is RCA had a transmitter on the Jersey shore.
MJRY CO (Manufacturers Railway) Western Electric box car.

The connection here is I spent 43 years with MA Bell.

Bob, I've got the same WE boxcar from Berwyn's:

I think my Aunt Juanita (Us kids called her "Weeto") began her secretarial career at the WE Hawthorne Works in Cicero in 1954 or 1955. The phone is from 1955 and is ALL 1955 and still works. I've posted about this fond recollection before but your post above prompted me to share it again.

@RSJB18 posted:

The 2 new Lionel Christmas Fezziwig Cars.

I had commented on another thread that the reindeer car could have been fit with a Gi-raffe mechanism so that Rudolph could pop his head out the top.

Bob

John Wilson (@das boot ) might be able to help with this.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well, BxCrSun fans, its a very dreary / wet day here in central Texas...after a brutal summer of months of dry HOT heat it is a relief and our reservoir is nearly back to normal, so I guess that's good.  So in keeping with the weather, I thought I would post a little "shower" of my miscellaneous box cars / refer's just for fun.

Here are two Hafner cars.  First the # 13789 Hafner Automobile Car (6 3/4" L) , from the late 1930's to the early 1940's

The much smaller (5 5/16" L) and w/o a sliding door or added trim the unnumbered Hafner Refrigerator car (early pre war and post war).

The Danish, Pioneerexpresson, refrigerator car or "KOLE Vogn" 1950's

Two HO but lithographed tin boxcars, the Karl Bub German Railways car and the Trennex (Spain) TNT explosives storage car.  Both from the 1950's.

Finally, since like me, Sitka is also sitting in the rain in upstate NY, I include a picture of the ORANGE Bosco car to go along with his red one...!

Best Wishes to all, hope your week goes well.

Don

Great cars, Don! Looks like a couple of grandkids are happy about 'em, too...

@Bill Swatos posted:

John Wilson (@das boot ) might be able to help with this.

I’d be interested in a solution to this

@Bill Swatos posted:

Bob, I've got the same WE boxcar from Berwyn's:

I think my Aunt Juanita (Us kids called her "Weeto") began her secretarial career at the WE Hawthorne Works in Cicero in 1954 or 1955. The phone is from 1955 and is ALL 1955 and still works. I've posted about this fond recollection before but your post above prompted me to share it again.

Nice looking car Bill, Is that called putting me on hold?

@Bill Swatos posted:

John Wilson (@das boot ) might be able to help with this.

I don't intend to chop up a new car. Just would have been a nice novelty for the set.

thanks

@RSJB18 posted:

I don't intend to chop up a new car. Just would have been a nice novelty for the set.

thanks

Sorry for piling on.

@Bill Swatos- Thanks for the comment Bill and you are right, those are my grandkids pictures in the background.  When I first got the 1938 Hafner set I had it displayed on the fireplace mantle and candidly when I first looked at the pictures I didn't really notice the kids pictures in the background.  Kind of like it now though!

Best Wishes

Don

@Sitka posted:

Nice looking car Bill, Is that called putting me on hold?

No, your wife's on the line asking you to come up for dinner!

Happy Boxcar Sunday. For this week an Atlas 50-foot Sante Fe Texas Chief.

Weaver