Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Two scarce ones......

Just a small sampling of my many, many pittsburgh business related cars.

- walt

Here is one with a somewhat poignant message at least today.  The Centennial Celebration of Sears and Roebuck, in 1986, today 38 years later, Sears is bankrupt and more of less out of business.  What a change in those few years compared with a century of successful service to customers.  Anyway this is a Lionel 0-27 type boxcar that came from a Sears special set celebrating their anniversary.

Best Wishes, Don

@Don McErlean

As far as anniversaries go you’ve got me by 25 years; but then JC PENNY is in business.

A late contribution, a little under the weather, but I finished the car last night…a MTH 40” car repainted and decaled by me…

Tom

Here are two boxcars from my collection.  

TP&W is a Weaver car that I weathered a few years ago.  I would weather it differently today ... taking a less is more approach

Here's a MTH Premier Richmond Fredricksburg & Potomac outside braced boxcar with brakeman Benny  Malone riding the catwalk.   I weathered this car too and wanted to give it the well worn out in the elements for decades

almost at the end of its' usefulness look.

A fresh shipment from up Michigan way…

Weaver stripped and repainted, Tichy decals.  Awaiting trial to the spray booth for Dullcote…

Cheers,

Price

Ok @Don McErlean, check this little box car out, I’m not sure it’s in scale, but it’s cool. Happy Box Car Sunday

Here's an early MPC-era rarity from 1972:

Very few of these 9701 B&O auto boxcars were molded in black and I have read online that most of them were intended as "convention cars." This one was rubber-stamped on the shell and floor for the 2nd annual convention of LCCA in Kansas City, MO in 1972. I've seen one of these listed on the auction site with the floor stamped and numbered for the convention, but not the shell like this one. As with all "aftermarket" rubber stamped markings on plastic, there is some degradation.

The common version of this car was molded in grey, painted silver with black heat-stamped markings and has black doors. It is nicer looking IMO. Here she is (with Wellspring-era MIC chassis upgrade) for reference:

Checked one off my elusive list…

Better late than never. Weathered and converted to kadee couplers

@leapinlarry- I agree Larry the SF 0-27 box car in Yellow / Blue is definitely  COOL!  And look at the price...$9.95 enough to make my 0-27 collectors heart skip a beat!!

Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'm working on my basement so I couldn't dig out anything new. Here are a couple of Reading's that were sitting on my layout.

Just finished this MTH 19th Century Boxcar, for the Colorado Midland. Detailed, painted and decaled with K-4 decals, by me.

Tom

Happy Boxcar Sunday! Here’s a newly arrived Lionel boxcar. The Breakfast of Champions!

Here’s my contribution:

Pair of Weaver PS-1s, stripped and repainted with Rustoleum Bright Aluminum, Tichy Decals, then Sullcote to tone down the Bright Aluminum.

Personally, I like the maroon lettering scheme better…

Thanks.

Cheers,

Price

THE Omaha Steaks on site boxcar for the LCCA Convention in Omaha. GG1GUYY

Two refrigerated boxcars - Brookside Milk MTC 1835 and Boston & Maine ice storage car #13266 – ran in a train on my 10’-by-5’ layout this week behind B&M Class B-15 2-6-0 “Mogul” #1455.

The Rutland Railroad brought milk from northern Vermont and New York State to the Bellows Falls (Vermont) Co-operative Creamery, which processed milk from more than 200 farmers. The creamery used Brookside Milk MTC 1835, built in 1918, to deliver milk to Boston on the Boston & Maine Railroad. In 1964, the creamery lost its contract with First National Stores, which marketed the milk. The creamery closed a year later.

The words “Ice Storage for Boston and Maine Air Conditioned Coaches” are painted on the side of Boston & Maine #13266. The only information I’ve found on the ice cars is a photo of B&M #13212 parked on the tracks near North Station in Boston.

Both models by Atlas O.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Two refrigerated boxcars - Brookside Milk MTC 1835 and Boston & Maine ice storage car #13266 – ran in a train on my 10’-by-5’ layout this week behind B&M Class B-15 2-6-0 “Mogul” #1455.

The Rutland Railroad brought milk from northern Vermont and New York State to the Bellows Falls (Vermont) Co-operative Creamery, which processed milk from more than 200 farmers. The creamery used Brookside Milk MTC 1835, built in 1918, to deliver milk to Boston on the Boston & Maine Railroad. In 1964, the creamery lost its contract with First National Stores, which marketed the milk. The creamery closed a year later.

The words “Ice Storage for Boston and Maine Air Conditioned Coaches” are painted on the side of Boston & Maine #13266. The only information I’ve found on the ice cars is a photo of B&M #13212 parked on the tracks near North Station in Boston.

Both models by Atlas O.

MELGAR

Melgar I beg to differ. The Brookside reefer was made by Lionel. METCA produced the Brookside and Riverside versions.

Enjoy your Boxcar Sunday, PW Lionel 6464 Rock Island Boxcar from 1953/55 Type 1,

Thanks Dave for getting us getting started!  Your Reading boxcars look terrific!  Best of luck with your basement work too!

Here are two Western Maryland boxcars .. the one on the right is by Weaver and the one on the left is MTH Premier.   The MTH has much crisper graphics.  Unfortunately this photo doesn't allow for comparison.  

MTH Premier N&W REA boxcar.  The dust on the roof is "natural weathering" ... lol!  

@Apples55 posted:

This was a special run from forum sponsor Berwyn’s… can’t go wrong with Nipper!!!

As an FYI I liked this car so I contacted Berwyn to see if they had any left. They do not, BUT, they are producing another custom run of them with MTH, due out next year. They are taking reservations, and I have put in my order. Great!!

Well here is one from French Hornby in the pre-war era.  This is an "M" series wagon, the series was initiated in 1930  to match the M locomotives which were 0 gauge but of a somewhat smaller scale than the prior line of French Hornby.  This was an adjustment to the economic conditions of the Great Depression in trying to introduce a more economical line of toys.  There were 9 wagons in all of various types, this one was the last issued in 1937 and is a Cattle Truck.  The humorous part of this wagon, which at first I thought was just fantasy, is that the car is imprinted in its livery with its "capacity"..." Hommes 40" and "Chevaux 8" or 40 people or 8 horses.  A bit of a history buff, I was reading some WW 1 history and one of the men quoted in the book I was reading actually complained that during the war the troops were tired of riding in the Hommes 40 Chevaux 8 cars to the front!  So in fact these cars were actually marked that way and used for both animals or people.  Of the 9 M wagons produced by French Hornby only 1, the simple open gondola, came back after WW II.

Note the capacity stipulation printed near the top of the door on the car.

Well I hope your weekend is going well.  It seems like its about to rain here in Central Texas, I  hope so as we need the rain badly after a month of 90-100 degree days.

Best Wishses

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

Melgar I beg to differ. The Brookside reefer was made by Lionel. METCA produced the Brookside and Riverside versions.

Pictured below is the underside of my Brookside Milk refrigerated boxcar. The manufacturers name is clearly visible as Atlas O.

MELGAR

Note also that MTC refers to the car's owner - Mystic Terminal Company.

MELGAR

One of my (now sold) MTH Christmas boxcars of which I had several.  The tree is still put up on the current building.  Back then it was a Gimbel's store (as I recall at least)

- walt

Here's a Lionel boxcar with harmonica playing hobo.  Enjoy the show

@MELGAR posted:

Pictured below is the underside of my Brookside Milk refrigerated boxcar. The manufacturers name is clearly visible as Atlas O.

MELGAR

@Melgar, sorry to have troubled you. Apparently both Atlas and Lionel made Brookside Reefers. Comparing the graphics they are somewhat different; and Lionel used an add on ladder. I know that Lionel’s car was delayed 2+ years because they had problems with the truck vendors. They finally shipped in early 2019.

The crew checks on the "hot wheel" on the NH high cube box #86819...

Happy Box Car Sunday Everyone, here’s some newly acquired cars that are very unique to me, hopefully you’ll enjoy the view….

@leapinlarry- OK , now Circus Train coming up!

Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'm working on my basement so I couldn't dig out anything new. Here's a Reading's that's sitting on my layout.

Happy Boxcar Sunday

I just became aware of this boxcar and got it right away. I’m honored to add this boxcar to my US NAVY boxcars. The WWII Silent Service.

Looks great, Dave!  Lots of Reading! Here is a little more…

And a Illinois Terminal boxcar…both painted by me…

Photos show Pennsylvania Railroad steel boxcar #24270 (K-Line K761-1891 – 1999 – $39.95) and New York Central wood-sided boxcar #161523 (MTH 20-99325 – $69.95 – 2023) in a short freight train on my 12’-by-8’ layout with PRR B-6sb 0-6-0 #7136 on the head end. I like to run these cars together behind PRR and NYC locomotives.

The New York Central wood-sided double-sheathed boxcar was designed by the United States Railroad Administration during the period of government control from 1917 to 1920. Eventually, 24,500 cars were produced to this design and many lasted through World War 2.

MELGAR

Another on site Boxcar from the OMAHA CONVENTION GG1GUYY

This week I’m showing a Weaver repainted into the M&StL green and yellow scheme.  Rustoleum green that I thought looked right and Tichy decals.

Cheers,

Price

Another fine start Dave PW Lionel Merchandise car from 1946-47 in silver/blue

several of the Pittsburgh related cars from MTH. the 2 at the top are for KDKA radio and the other 2 are Pittsburgh brewery

walt