Lionel PS-1 Box Cars

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Penn Central and AC&Y

These may be among the best models in plastic.  If you want something special, coat with silver or bronze, then shoot with gloss color and decal.  These are Walthers decals:

The PS-1 40' Boxcars that have not been produced for LIONEL are:

1955-1956 Chicago & North Western - big C&NW initials that are reflective

Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern

2 color schemes

Brown body

Blue body

Green Bay & Western

2 color schemes

Green body

Yellow body

Lake Superior & Ishpeming

St. Louis Southwestern COTTON BELT

SCL Seaboard Coast Line 

brown body and the roof walk removed

8' or 10' wide Youngstown doors

Andrew

Falcon Service

nyc pacemaker boxcar 6-27275

nyc jade boxcar 6-27288

Their Seaboard Air Line PS1 car came with the 6-panel door, it should have had the 8' 7-panel Superior doors.  If they would put some spare, correct, painted/lettered doors in the box so folks could swap them out that would solve that issue.

This is the type of detail every manufacturer should try to get right.

All other aspects of their PS1 car are fine and fits in nicely with my MTH and Weaver PS1 cars.

The TCA got the early SSW St. Louis Southwestern Cotton Belt scheme. A later COTTON BELT graphic scheme would have to be made for the regular catalog PS-1 Boxcar.

Andrew

Cars are nice but why are the couplers so high? 

To solve the Seaboard Air Line PS-1 40' Boxcar problem with the too narrow 6' doors, the people at Lionel can have a second road number produced with the correct 8' Youngstown doors and extra 8' Youngstown doors for the previous production.

At the same time the Seaboard Coast Line PS-1 40' Boxcars with 8' Youngstown doors and removed running boards can be manufactured.

Andrew

The North Stratford RR ran 100 PS-1 boxcars...with slight differences (roof and ends) from the Lionel and Weaver PS-1 models, it would still make a nice addition.

IC in boxcar red

Steam era NYC in boxcar red.

I have an early gray SSW Lionel PS 1 that has all of the railroads list on the car sides who purchased PS 1 boxcars. I am not sure if there was a prototype for this car.

Richard

Yes, that was a real Pullman-Standard Commemorative PS-1 40' Box Car.

The Illinois Central PS-1 40' Box Cars do have to be made in the original paint scheme from the 1940's and 1950's.

There were Northern Pacific 40' box cars with 10' wide Youngstown doors.

Andrew

The Northern Pacific PS-1 40' Boxcars were built in 1947.

The NP rebuilt the 40' Boxcars in 1966 and added the 10' wide Youngstown doors.

Two variations for Northern Pacific.

Andrew

It would have been highly unlikely that the Burlington Northern employees repainted more than a few of the PS-1 40' Box Cars. Most of the PS-1 40' Box cars were built between 1945-1960. The Burlington Northern merger was in 1970. These boxcars would have been an average of 20 years old by the start of the merger and the oldest 40' Box Cars were being phased out of regular service by 1980. There might have been some repainted, but most photos show a mix of the oldest boxcars in CB&Q, GN, and NP schemes in the 1970's.

Andrew