Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Here is one I just purchased.  Not all that rare or unusual but I like the  livery showing the TCA logo (I am a member) and the logo of the Toy Train Museum in Strasburg, PA.   It's an early Kline, from 1986, and it is most certainly one which uses the old Marx "deluxe" molds and assembly methods.  It is an almost perfect match, except for the livery and mfg' marks, to the Marx "deluxe" box cars of a decade or more earlier.  At $9.95 how could I resist !!  It's 38 years old and still NIB so it is in great shape.

Best Wishes, Don

As many said years ago, "Hi neighbor, have a Gansett!"  The slow freight passes between Sunset Farm and Bob's General Store...the cycle guy just made it across...

Atlas O single sheathed boxcar

@JimFMB posted:

Atlas O single sheathed boxcar

@JimFMB, your photo is not showing in the post body or as an attachment (on my computer, anyway). We'd love to see it!

Here's another 6565 027 "Heavyweight" this time in B&LE livery from 2002 honoring US Savings Bonds:

This was one of three cars with this theme offered in the 2001 v2 catalog. I don't know whether this scheme is prototypical or not, but I'm leaning toward thinking that it is since a decal set has been produced for a 60' high cube in HO.

Thanks to @Mark V. Spadaro for letting me know what these cars are a couple of Sundays ago. It turns out that a total of 20 of these 6565 cars were produced from 1999 to 2008. Here's an interesting article from TCA's website on these cars. I really like them! More to come!

Happy Boxcar Sunday. Here is the mess I've been contending with. I'm switching rooms and hopefully will be back in action by Christmas. Anyway, here is an MTH NYC on a little section that's not covered with trash.

I was going to post something else but when I saw this car I thought it was more appropriate since Battleship NJ is back home.

New York Central boxcar #92102 (K-Line) and Waldbaums refrigerated boxcar PSRX #1006 (Atlas O) ran behind Long Island Rail Road Alco RS-1 diesel locomotive #462 on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

THE LCCA 2024 OMAHA CONVENTION BANQUET CAR. GG1GUYY

My 2 most recent buys

- walt

And now for something different:

Intermountain boxcar kit assembled by me; Atlas trucks

Cheers,

Price

Dave - thanks for getting us started for this fine Sunday!   Best wishes on transferring your layout to another room.  Although not transferring to another room, about 25 percent of my layout is in a transition phase ( as shown behind today' boxcar photos )  ... and like you I'm hoping to have it completed by Christmas too!  

Here's a photo of a Western Maryland boxcar.  This is a MTH Premier model.  I love the fireball logo!  

Here is a scale Pennsy boxcar by K line.   The dust on the roof is "natural weathering" .. lol!  I know I'm one of the many of us that wishes K line Trains were still around.  Their scale products were superb IMHO!!

Well Patrick, as you said many of us like KLINE and wished they were still in business.  I just wished someone published a comprehensive list of what they made and when !  I have started a "new" phase of collecting.  Now you need to know that I suffer from a "small boxcar bug" and collect the Lionel 0-27 (sometimes incorrectly called "plug door") boxcars that often accompanied private starter or advertising type Lionel sets.  I also collect Marx plastic freights, especially the "deluxe" Marx boxcars with the sliding doors.  Now I am also hunting, Kline small boxcars (8 1/2 " mold) that actually used the tooling for Marx deluxe cars which Kline then issued in new liveries and equipped with Lionel compatible type trucks and couplers.   This is one of those as was my entry last week.

The B&O #5120 boxcar from 1992

@pennsyfan - Hey Bob, what is the comment about the USS N.J.  that she came " back home" where was she?

@walt rapp - Hey man, you remain king of the Christmas layout and those two new boxcars will be great!

Best wishes everyone, great pictures all.  Hope your upcoming week goes great!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well Patrick, as you said many of us like KLINE and wished they were still in business.  I just wished someone published a comprehensive list of what they made and when !  I have started a "new" phase of collecting.  Now you need to know that I suffer from a "small boxcar bug" and collect the Lionel 0-27 (sometimes incorrectly called "plug door") boxcars that often accompanied private starter or advertising type Lionel sets.  I also collect Marx plastic freights, especially the "deluxe" Marx boxcars with the sliding doors.  Now I am also hunting, Kline small boxcars (8 1/2 " mold) that actually used the tooling for Marx deluxe cars which Kline then issued in new liveries and equipped with Lionel compatible type trucks and couplers.   This is one of those as was my entry last week.

The B&O #5120 boxcar from 1992

@pennsyfan - Hey Bob, what is the comment about the USS N.J.  that she came " back home" where was she?

@walt rapp - Hey man, you remain king of the Christmas layout and those two new boxcars will be great!

Best wishes everyone, great pictures all.  Hope your upcoming week goes great!

Don

She went to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for a complete dry dock restoration.

@Don McErlean

Check out Legacy K-Line Trains

Atlas O Ann Arbor woodside boxcar

Some oddball railroads I have painted. Weaver and MTH cars…

Tom

@pennsyfan- Bob, thanks for the tip!  I did not know about that web site before.  It has quite a lot of information.  Thanks again. Also, thanks for the update on the USS N.J.  - as a prior long time resident of N.J. (born there) I am certainly glad she is being maintained and kept for display.

@Krieglok - Great looking cars .  I honestly don't know where you find these railroads, many of them I have never heard of.  Super job!

Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday!
Here are nine various boxcars (plus 3 gondolas, a flat car, a stock car, and a caboose). Our 11 year old grandson was with us for two weeks. He picked these cars yesterday to run with his new birthday present BN diesel on my layout.

@WP - enjoyed your post, 11 years old is a wonderful age you need to enjoy it to the fullest!

Don

Once again nice start @Dave Ripp. Some more NYC have a good weekend.

Wow, this is a fun to review topic with so many interesting box cars with so many beautiful paint schemes…

@Don McErlean posted:

@WP - enjoyed your post, 11 years old is a wonderful age you need to enjoy it to the fullest!

Don

Thanks Don. I was around his age when I received my first train set! I am happy that he is enjoying trains!

@WP posted:

Happy Boxcar Sunday!
Here are nine various boxcars (plus 3 gondolas, a flat car, a stock car, and a caboose). Our 11 year old grandson was with us for two weeks. He picked these cars yesterday to run with his new birthday present BN diesel on my layout.

It’s so great that you enjoy the hobby together! God Bless

Happy Sunday boxcar fans.  Here is a recently purchased Weaver Missouri Pacific.

Thanks Dave, Happy Sunday to you and all that ride these rails!

Here is an RMT RAHWAY VALLEY boxcar  

New York Central boxcar #161523 (MTH 20-99325) and New Haven boxcar #78000 (MTH 20-99327) ran in a short train behind NYC 0-4-0 steam switcher #901 on my 10’-by-5’ layout last week.

According to MTH, these double-sheathed wood-sided boxcars had a heavy fishbelly underframe and were designed by the United States Railroad Administration during World War 1. By 1920, some 24,500 such cars were in use on 24 railroads and many remained in service past the end of World War 2. The underframe, wood sides and other details are accurately reproduced on the MTH models.

MELGAR

LCCA LIONEL HEADQUARTERS BOXCAR WITH LENNY THE LION PICTURE

GG1GUYY

Have a good Boxcar Sunday Williams GP-38 New Haven

Had to do a little looking around, but this is a good one from the past!

Thanks Dave for getting us started for this fine Sunday!  

Here is my Weaver Packard Show Stopper boxcar.  

A couple cars I just finished. Both MTH, painted by me…

Tom

Well Boxcar fans you may not know this but Waco, Texas where I live,  is where "Dr. Pepper" was invented, in the 1880's by a local druggist playing around with the syrup dispensers in his soda fountain area.  No his name was not "Pepper" it was Charles Alderton and it was in 1880 and the brand was first marketed nationally in 1904.  If you are ever in central Texas, the Dr. Pepper Museum is really neat and a great visit.   So not nearly as old, but somewhat special to us folks here in Waco, is a Kline Dr. Pepper Christmas car from 1994 which is now 30 years ago (seems like yesterday).  I keep this one with my Christmas trains so I only see it on the track about 1 / year.  

Best wishes everyone.  Hope your upcoming week goes well.

Don

When the PRR decided to start its Less Than Car Load (LCL) service in 1947, Raymond Lowey proposed three different paint schemes for the boxcars.  This MTH car has one of the schemes not chosen.   I find it interesting that MTH, Lionel, K-Line, and maybe others, all produced this fantasy scheme in multiple runs.  Folks must have liked it because it is a good looking car.

Atlas O Minneapolis & St. Louis USRA Double Sheathed Boxcar

Little late to the party, but here’s my contribution today:

Weaver stripped and repainted; K4 decals

Cheers,

Price

Happy Boxcar Sunday. I'll start off with an Atlas 50-foot Rock Island.

I run four New Haven boxcars (with McGinnis block NH logo) behind New Haven Alco S-2 diesel switcher #0615 on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ model railroad. A New Haven train with these 40-foot cars is always on the layout. The models are old and have been on the layout for many years.

New Haven #31709 (MTH 20-93048) was delivered in 2001 at MSRP $39.95.

New Haven #45097 (MTH 20-94012) is a refrigerated box car delivered in 1999 at MSRP $39.95.

New Haven #22114 (MTH 20-93015) is a single door box car delivered in 1999 at MSRP $39.95.

New Haven #36000 (K-Line K761-1791) is an express boxcar delivered in 2002 at MSRP $44.95.

MELGAR

Thanks Dave for starting this Boxcar Sunday. That’s a nice looking RI boxcar.
Today I have 2 LIRR boxcars. The first is W64; from what I e read, that’s a MOW car.i think it’s MTH.

Next is a RMT  boxcar

Im not sure whether the Morris Park notation is where it’s assigned or where it was rebuilt.

I don’t understand this  notation.

Today’s obscurity:

Weaver stripped and repainted; K4 decals.

Cheers,

Price