How many of you have boxcars with the same name?

Are they box cars or reefers?

 

Bill

I've got 10 B &M boxcars & 10 GE boxcars & numerous 8 packs of Menard's boxcars.

i guess i misunderstood the question but i always thought it was interesting that my mother's maiden name* was Cargill...

 

though i suppose it's not a boxcar either.

 

personally i guess i should also be a fan of the "Gary Railway Co."

http://www.tstarinc.com/grw/

 

cheers...gary

 

 

*and no, i don't use that name for a password challenge question.  in fact i don't think i've ever answered one of those questions with an accurate or consistant answer.

All three are reefers I run mostly mixed freight trains.And I sometimes have my reefers next to cattle cars.

I have several NYC Pacemaker boxcars, all in the Red and Gray scheme and all with different numbers

I have a dozen or more scale boxcars scripted for the Spokane Portland & Seattle RR but are different in their manufactured design. Not sure what you are trying to determine but real deal boxcars and reefers evolved in design through the decades.

 

    Bill T.

I have about three dozen or so Lionel Pennsylvania boxcars in my PRR by Lionel collection.  In collector speak some are variations.  Does that count?

I have 40+ NYC Pacemaker boxcars and about 8 MDT reefers. I think the NYC Pacemaker trains had 50 cars or there abouts. All have unique numbers. Those with duplicate numbers have been relettered.

Pete

I have not counted them, but I have collected at least 10 each Seaboard Cost Line, Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line cars from various manufacturers, 

I have lots of Pennsy boxcars, some are identical except for the road numbers.  I figure when you find a paint scheme you like, you stick with it.

 

Andy

ok, now i get it.  if tinplate counts, here is my best shot...

 

cheers...gary

Most of my collection is postwar, so a lot of variation, but I do have a set of 4 modern PRR Railking boxcars: 2 are identical single door (may have different numbers now that I think of it...), one says something like "cushioned ride" on the side, and one is a double door, but their all the same color and similar lettering. 

You have hit the nail on the head!Yep same railroad or company  just lettered differently. 

I have a number of Rio Grande boxcars, trying hard to avoid two with the same number, that I would have to renumber.  They are "boxcars"...outside braced, or

with different ends and doors, but...boxcars.    Of course, one Rio Grande car that has

been done to death is the white "Cookie Box" boxcar that I think has been made by everybody...would like to know when they were used and how many prototypes actually

existed.  (I think it is too modern for my modeled era)

I must have too many. To be honest, "I don't know". For now my answer is "a lot".

I have two strings of box cars:

1) Santa Fe "All the Way".

2) Union Pacific

SeaboardM2,

 

     All of my box cars say "Pennsylvania", they may not be the same models but all PRR.

 

JohnB

You are right I have seen those cars.I do not know if they just had the name cookie for?Your also correct about being done to death.BTW the Rio Grande was pretty famous for the narrow gauge trains.If it was not for books I would think thats all they had.But they had the standard gauge trains to.And some big locomotives to. 

I have 25 Menard's Reading boxcars, and I have some of their flatcars coming.  I also have about 40 PFE reefers to pull behind the VL-BB.  I run my Virginian Allegheny with 20 some Virginian coal hoppers.  I like unit trains, so I'm looking for more similar sets.

I have lots of various road name boxcars.  Here are the ones I have of the same road name in the 4 class ones that comprise my railroad, The Free State Junction Railway.  I have 5 in Western Maryland various liveries, 3 in B&O various liveries, 5 in Pennsylvania various liveries - 3 same livery in Pennsy, 2 in Norfolk and Western.

 

I also have 4 boxcars in the Richmond Fredricksburg and Potomac - 2 of same livery in blue and white, one outside braced, and one in boxcar red. 

 

 

 

 

I have:

6 K-Line 0-27 UP Boxcars with Road of the Streamliners

6 K-Line 0-27 UP Boxcars with Be specific, ship Union Pacific

5 CMP Santa Fe Mapped Reefers

2 Menards US Army Boxcars

A lot other cars that I have are 2 but they are numbered differently like the ones above.

Reefers.....about 30 Tropicana ones.

 

New York Central boxcars in many liveries, about 20(some duplicates).

 

Peter

John,

 

Do you have a list of all of your Lionel PRR box cars?  I want to see if you have any I don't know about but I can't see enough details in the photo.

 

 

Thanks for posting

, 

The other Bill T

I just ran a train of Marx #59 cattle cars yesterday - seventy nine of them, behind double headed K-Line copies of the Marx 333 steamers. I will post a video when I get one.

I have a fondness for Western Pacific orange boxcars with blue feathers.  I have examples from MTH, Lionel, K Line and Williams.  I have duplicates from some.  They make an impessive train.

 

Rolland

Not more than three in certain roads except for twenty or so S.P. "Overnight" 40' boxcars which they ran as one train.

I bet George Foreman does (he named all his sons George).  

 

At at one time I had two George Foreman grills.  Don't know why but I did.

Several. Not an issue here

I have a lot of boxcars with the same name, LIONEL

Lots of Santa Fe Box cars. All different road numbers; five different types.

Several CNW Box Cars.

You tend to accumulate quite a few over time. Doesn't help that Atlas releases them four at a time and MTH does six-car sets.

 

I have multiples of lots of cars, but not many are box cars, though there are some. I have more hoppers. A dozen MTH BN black coal hoppers just showed up last week, along with half a dozen Soo's. I bought a case of a dozen BN green, Weaver grain hoppers from a forum member a while back. I have another BNSF silver and green coal train, there's 12 more.

 

I've said this before, I'm trying to run a realistic railroad, so I buy what I see in the real world. What that means is no road names are off limits, but home roads are more common. Those would be BNSF, CP and UP and their predecessors.

I have 23  6469 Blue B&O double door box cars.  My favorite PW piece of rolling stock.  Also have 9 of the Tuscan B&O's.  Have 12 of the MPC RF&P box cars, can't remember the number off hand maybe 9412.  I love to run all the blue B&O's with a bright red wagon top caboose.

 

Paul Edgar

I like two or three of one type of car across the board, not just boxcars.

In fact, I only have a pair of different color semi scale Baby Ruth cars.

But I have lots of other pairs. Swift Hot Box Reefers, to Evans Auto-Loaders.

 Milk cars, red flat cars, and various gondolas are my biggest "matching" freight groups.  

 

Red, white, and blue "State of Maine" cars by several manufactures in N, HO, O, and G scale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Grand Trunk Western and Soo Line, I have many.

 

Andrew

 

 

Seaboardm2,

    I have 4 Wellsville, Addison & Galeton Atlas Box Cars, and 3 Menards US Army Box Cars all have different numbers however.

PCRR/Dave

I generally dont name my rolling stock, just the locomotives and the occasional caboose

Most all of our engines and rolling stock are SP and WP. Then we have a couple of geared locos and some skeleton cars from the Pickering Lumber Corp.

John