Favorite Boxcar Livery

My GREEN ones. 

A am now strictly passenger car service, but a favorite box car would be the Sante Fe Billboards. Great thread, Peter.

Agreed all the way.  That's what I used to see on the PRR mainline back in the days, and that's what still looks prototypical to me.

 

Guess you can find a 1:1 scale model of just about any road name.

 

ed h   i bet one of those will make the price of the big boy look pretty cheap! but the good part we won't need many of them.....

Milwaukee Road in all their splendid configurations.

Bob Delbridge- I have an all green and a Tuscan West India Fruit and Steamship boxcar. I got them from Atlas as club car specials. They are very good looking. 

Odd enough that is my favorite one as well, there used to be one sitting on an old sidetrack overgrown at Raleigh Junk junkyard and I would stare at it every time we passed by.  

Peter

Sorry no Pictures but NYC Pacemaker, I fall for the Red and Gray all the time

Without a doubt, my favorite is the big PC green....no wait, I like the NYC green as Peter posted at the beginning of this thread....no....my favorite is the big UP shield..yes, that is it.  Ah....wait, I like the PRR Keystone too.....and OH...that bright Santa Fe red with the white logo....OK, OK...I like all of them I guess!!...

 

Great thread Peter!

Alan

Diesel Dan has stated my view very well.  Thanks Dan.  Pat B.

Paul, never saw that one, can you post a photo?

 

I always thought the Ashley, Drew & Northern was a fictitious RR, until I spotted this car in Suffolk VA one day:

 

 

 

I bet this FEC car stood out in a train full of boxcar red:

 

 

 

Here's a car/RR I wish someone would offer:

 

 

 

I wonder what the most elaborate (and costly) paint scheme was?

Aside from the NYC, this is my all-time favorite.....

 

 

Mines is the k-line N and H box car. 

Don't forget there were some nice looking express boxcars and refersfor passenger trains!

New Haven is also a favorite......love that orange and black!

 

Peter 

Who remembers this one?
When I was just a little boy… I would get all excited when I would see this one roll through town..







Lots of Great Pictures Everyone-Thanks for Posting

K.C.

About 2 miles from our farm when growing up, there were cattle and pig loading pens. Every 2 weeks, use to see one of these, and loved it. Here's one on layout. Sorry its not a boxcar, but only have 2 on layout. Everything else is coal, tank, etc. Just into cattle cars. Close, LOL?

http://i191.photobucket.com/al...4613_zps7138f9f8.jpg

Bob Delbridge, I'll take those pictures of the West India boxcars today.

For me, it's a dead-heat tie between the NYC jade green and the Rutland green-

and-yellow.

 

     Hoppy

Why was a picture of a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis boxcar “Not Approved”?

George Cox

Bob Delbridge-Here are the West India Boxcars...

I'm not where have pictures right now, but my favorites are 2 pieces of primarily black (with a thin yellow stripe and red at lower section) K Line ATSF rolling stock: the boxcar is road # 97190 and the dual chamber center flow hopper is R/N 77171.  These 2 cars get commented on more than others by visitors to the layout.

I don't have photos on hand, but 3 of my many favorites were the PRR "Don't Stand Me Still!" cars, the B&O Sentinel and the Rio Grande "Cookie Box".  The last one is because I always loved that when I was little and thought it actually carried cookies!

I've always had a liking to the SF Shock Control cars.  The bright red of the tradition box car with the large white logo and lettering, the yellow script, and the black roof and ends.

 

 

How many of these can you fit in your train room?

Hey I have the railking one.When I put it a train its aeye catcher for sure.I also have five fec boxcars that are different colors.Oh I almost forgot I have 3 different swifts boxcars.I have a mp boxcar that is blue with a gray stripe.Yes I,m glad there are different boxcars because lets face it.It would be pretty boring if they were all the same.

Are these from a manufacturer or decaled? I wouldn't mind having a few of these myself since they interchanged with the ACL and SAL up to the early 60s. 

There needs to be pulled by that 1':12" Geep painted for Lionel Lines

originally posted from Larry Neal:

Are these from a manufacturer or decaled? I wouldn't mind having a few of these myself since they interchanged with the ACL and SAL up to the early 60s. 

The cars are Atlas O club car from the Golden Spike Club

I second this:

 

Not my favorite scheme by any means, but, as this car/scheme has come up twice, above, I thought that I would post my example.

 

Weighted Weaver car, painted plastic trucks/couplers, painted car, decal set from Champ. Champ is gone; may find decals at auction. 

 

I thought that I would never finish this thing (ends have reporting marks too); that's

a lot of decal. The RR must have had a fat car painter budget.

 

 

I like Seaboard Coast Line and this Lionel fits the bill nicely. Front and back...

 

 

 

LOL!  Maybe the MC had lots-o-$$$ and few cars to paint

 

Jerry Glow has decals for the WIF and Protocraft has them for the WIF AND MC,

 

Paul, nice WIF boxcars

       
       


I have the Atlas o version. It's a bit different, but pretty close.

I attached a pic