Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

A bit of theme for me recently with boxcars.  Here is another headend express boxcar. Not prototypical as the ATSF Fe-24 class express boxcars were 50' double door boxcars, but still the paint is pretty decent on this Weaver model.   Some metal trucks and a several ounces of weight and it could actually be at the head of one of my ATSF passenger trains without derailing.

OK, it’s perhaps not a boxcar because it has no top….but it’s a way for the CP to meet the huge post-pandemic surge in Christmas tree demand. Several operators in our waybill-driven operating group have done variations on the tree cars, inspired by one.  Thanks Frank!!

This car awaits off-loading at the Vernon CT freight house and team track. They’re three days late, but still in time, so tres bien!  Merry Christmas to All🎄

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Love to see the wide variety and craftsmanship on this thread.

Just finished this one-it's a tribute to my old command that I served in.  It was originally an MTH 2006 fall York catalog cover boxcar.   I sanded off all the MTH advertising with 2000 grit paper and resprayed the sides with Tamiya flat white.   The emblems/logos are actually stickers I purchased from Military Graphics in Arizona.   They are very thin and apply nicely.   Happy with how it turned out and the car will be part of my patriotic train.

Quite a few years ago I spied this boxcar at a train show in someone's junk box. Most of the trim pieces were gone and someone had tried to weather it with some rust colored paint. I think I paid $.50 for it.The B&M lettering was intact and unpainted, so I masked it off and used Floquil B&M blue to paint it. The paint doesn't quite match but with new trucks and some of the trim items replaced, it has become a decent piece on my layout, almost prototypical.

This box car was one of 50 offered by Lionel at there Grand Opening October 19th in Nashville, Tennessee. I was in Seoul Korea at the time, but my friend Sam, Sams Trains, who works at the store saved me one. Thank you Sam.

@Dave_C posted:

The Rutland had 200 automobile boxcars. In the years I model they were used on a variety of jobs as I can’t picture them being used in auto transport. They were only 40 ft. cars. The Rutland never saw a new steel car till 1954. They were built from the same order that produced their standard 8000 series boxcar in 1924. As far as I can tell looking at pictures. The only difference was another slightly cut down door was  door added. About 3/4 length. A prototype can be seen at Strasburg. So I had some good photos to look at. Atlas produced a fairly good replica of the standard car years ago. I had a shell in my junk box that served as a donor for parts and experimenting. I picked up a DM&IR that had the more correct ends. I blasted the lettering off with an air eraser, made a trip to the local hobby shop for some styrene strips, ordered some door guides from Atlas, ordered some K4 Decals and made a few cutting guide jigs. I basically just cut the door opening and framed it out.

  A quick mock-up was made testing out the styrene. The tedious part was cutting the door down and removing the latching hardware. I also removed the 2 doorstops and added the extras using Precision Scale parts. I used Tamiya Dull Red Laquer for paint.

the first shot is the stock Atlas car and the modified car together. The lettering font of the K4 decals is slightly larger. Protocraft also makes a decal set that matches up with the Atlas. Funny thing is. MTH did a recent run that also has the larger font. I preferred the smaller lettering. But in order to make life easy. The K4 set just require cutting out a 6 and flipping it to make a 9. The Protocraft set would have required moving multiple numbers around. Not so easy when doing the car ends. Kadee’s went on and a light coat of weathering. It was a fun project and I’ll pickup another car to do at some point.

Nice job !

Four custom brakeman cars.  The N & W car is a walking brakeman car.  The others are telltale 3424 style cars.

A pair of 1679 lithographed boxcars with lithographic style side overlays and 6464 style numbers.

@MELGAR posted:

Dave C and Krieglok,

I can't let your modeling work go without comment. Always outstanding.

MELGAR

Thank you Melgar! I always enjoy seeing your rolling stock and great layout. You, as well as many others here, have great talent in so many ways.

Everything is appreciated!

Tom

@leapinlarry posted:

This box car was one of 50 offered by Lionel at there Grand Opening October 19th in Nashville, Tennessee. I was in Seoul Korea at the time, but my friend Sam, Sams Trains, who works at the store saved me one. Thank you Sam.

Thanks for posting Larry. My Daughter in law came across the store in November when she was in the Mall. I can’t come up with the beautiful picture of the mall presence that she took. Here is a link from Lionel.
https://nashville.lionel.com/

@Bill Swatos posted:

Weaver's commemoration of EMD's 75th anniversary in 1997:

One unusual feature of this car is the silver trucks, as most Weaver cars have black ones

I have one of those, I had to go check to see if the trucks were silver; they are and I had not really noticed that before!

B&O Time Saver boxcar by Weaver and weathered by me.  

A week early, but here's Weaver's Christmas offering for 1990:

It's one of two Christmas-themed boxcars I have; I hope to feature the other one next week in a certain passenger consist we all know and love...

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Happy Boxcar Sunday! Here is a MTH that I weathered & un-weathered over and over. I'm still not happy with it but it's getting better. I tried my first rust scratch and hopefully it looks ok.

Looks pretty good to me, Dave!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Looks pretty good to me, Dave!

Thank you, Bill. Cool Christmas boxcar I like the train picture on it.

@leapinlarry posted:

This box car was one of 50 offered by Lionel at there Grand Opening October 19th in Nashville, Tennessee. I was in Seoul Korea at the time, but my friend Sam, Sams Trains, who works at the store saved me one. Thank you Sam.

Are they numbered Larry? I've got a mint car from the 2022 TCA convention there.

Early edition for Boxcar Sunday. I hope everyone has a good Christmas. The boxcars are all K-Line traditional size. 1991 the year my wife Ada and I got married,1993 Son Ryan,1996 daughter in law Emily, 1999 Son Parker.

Lionel

Here's my boxcars for tomorrow's fine Sunday!   Happy Holidays to all!!

Crates of gifts have arrived on this boxcar and now the car is empty as this pick up takes the last truck load to the distribution center.

Christmas trees arrive by boxcar.  These trees will be hauled to the Boys & Girls club tree lot.

Later more Christmas trees arrive in an REA boxcar just after a flurry of snow has fallen.  Mack stands in the doorway and yells " All done in here! No more trees!"  

I just love watching my boxcar consist zoom around the layout - mostly all PS-1 cars:

Christmas boxcars.

Okay, since everyone is jumping the gun, here we go. Boxcar Satsunday…lol

Just finished these three cars yesterday. Two Weaver and one MTH…

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

Okay, since everyone is jumping the gun, here we go. Boxcar Satsunday…lol

Just finished these three cars yesterday. Two Weaver and one MTH…

Tom

Great work as always Tom. I really like the Illinois Terminal; I've not seen it in that scheme before.

Thanks Dave.

I used a K4 decal set. They come up with some interesting roadnames for their decal offerings!

Tom

Happy Boxcar Sunday

Christmas Boxcars

Weaver - Merry Christmas to all and to all a great Boxcar Sunday!

As promised last week, here's my other Christmas-themed boxcar, a North Pole Power Car by MTH:

Turns out, it's got a Polar Express theme, too, what with the color scheme and caribou calling. So here it is, carrying Christmas trees for express delivery in my Polar Express consist:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone and good luck with any "last-minute" shopping you may have to do...

@Bill Swatos posted:

As promised last week, here's my other Christmas-themed boxcar, a North Pole Power Car by MTH:

Turns out, it's got a Polar Express theme, too, what with the color scheme and caribou calling. So here it is, carrying Christmas trees for express delivery in my Polar Express consist:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone and good luck with any "last-minute" shopping you may have to do...

Nice looking car Bill! That fleet is getting huge enjoy your Christmas with your family! Mark

Just got another inexpensive Weaver boxcar for my Friendship Train.  There is a picture of several of these NYC boxcars with the star and the Cleveland banner as part of the train.  Need to find a couple more of these cars.  The picture of the boxcars is a little blurred, but I think the fonts are close to the actual banner.  Just need to tweak it a bit more and add it to the car.

Well I am sure I may have posted this previously but it is my only "Christmas" car .  So Happy Holidays from the "HOME" of Dr. Pepper...Waco, Texas.

Best Wishes to All

Don

I think these count

walt

This one is for Yohan.

John

Good evening OGR Forum members, this is late, like Christmas Eve, but I just had to compliment all the folks that make this thread so much fun to review…This thread is so much fun to review as I had no idea how many box existed…. Merry Christmas Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Good evening OGR Forum members, this is late, like Christmas Eve, but I just had to compliment all the folks that make this thread so much fun to review…This thread is so much fun to review as I had no idea how many box existed…. Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas to you also Larry and the rest of my boxcar enthusiasts.

Merry Christmas Boxcar Sunday fans

A Lionel TCA 2005 refrigerated boxcar:

For this week a recently acquired MTH Canadian National. With a built date of 2-68 it fits right in on my 1971 era railroad.

2023 LCCA REGISTRATION BOX CAR FROM CONCORD

I was able to finish these 3 this week while cold weather kept me inside.  The OB are All Nation cars with some added detail and the B&O is a brass car ( I do not not know who made it). Weathering this week!

Beautiful work, as always Malcolm.