MTH All Door Box Cars

Mine came Tuesday. I got the Spokane Moulding  and the Armstrong cars. These are the first cars of this type I have purchased and I agree, the graphics are really nice. Hopefully they will offer more road names in the next catalog.

PSU 1980 and SOUTHERN MIKE,

You should call MTH and speak to either Rich Foster or Mike Wolf and tell them how you love their new cars. 

I have quite a few of them. I love them. I believe the railroads have retired all of the real ones. 

Actually,if you look these up on MTH's website, they have a really nice history of these cars. Any car built prior to 1974 had an AAR max service life of 40 years, but the advent of lumber wrapping technology, hastened their retirement.

PSU1980 posted:

Finally got my hands on a few MTH All Door Box Cars, items 20-93855 and 20-93858, Spokane Moulding Corporation and Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railway. 

All I can say is these are super nice!!! Paint, graphics and color look great. On  the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railway, the D&H road numbers and logos are on the cars.

Well done MTH. Can’t wait to get more of these.

Send em in and I will make them look real...

Do the doors open? I'd enjoy seeing a photo with the doors open...

Jan

Interior is not very realistic. Almost looks like a RailKing design. Posts are in the way due to its door operation and construction. This is one boxcar I don't detail the inside on. 

Interesting idea.

Lumber/plywood is still being shipped in boxcars. 50’ TTX and 50’ SP seem to be the current flavor around here. 

The ALL-DOOR Box Car are not totally retired, but they are becoming a rare sight. I saw one in 2018 at the Grand Elk Railyard in Kalmazoo, Michigan. I could find the photos eventually in my computer files.

All of the doors do move in tracks. 

Andrew

Plywood and precut studs are shipped in boxcars.  Most dimensional lumber on centerbeam flatcars.

I picked up one of the early ones from 2001. They do have a great paint job.

Charlie

I am new to MTH trains but I just purchased a pair of their CACV (D&H) All Door boxcars. They have the same item number but different road numbers. I looked in MTH's 2019 catalog but didn't see where it listed multiple road numbers were available. Is this standard practice for MTH? Is there anyway to find out if there are other numbers available? Thanks.

@BenLMaggi posted:

I am new to MTH trains but I just purchased a pair of their CACV (D&H) All Door boxcars. They have the same item number but different road numbers. I looked in MTH's 2019 catalog but didn't see where it listed multiple road numbers were available. Is this standard practice for MTH? Is there anyway to find out if there are other numbers available? Thanks.

Yes typically MTH would release the premier rolling stock in two different road numbers

Atlas O will be able to have them produced sometime.

Andrew

I have collected one road # of just about all of the different ones that MTH has released.  I preordered the last four from the last catalog to add to my collection.  

Larry

@BenLMaggi posted:

I am new to MTH trains but I just purchased a pair of their CACV (D&H) All Door boxcars. They have the same item number but different road numbers. I looked in MTH's 2019 catalog but didn't see where it listed multiple road numbers were available. Is this standard practice for MTH? Is there anyway to find out if there are other numbers available? Thanks.

If you go to MTH's web site and use the search box to search "All-Door", you will get a long list of most, if not all the All-Door cars they have made.  You can then filter by catalog or road name, or find and click on the individual item and go to the item's page which will usually list the two road numbers in the description tab.

Andy

Gotcha. I was looking at their catalog itself from 2019 which showed the cars, but didn't mention multiple road numbers or specifically list them. Thanks.

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I bought this one way back in 2016: Idaho Forest Industries 55' All-Door Box Car "339" (White) (MTH 20-93679):

Got hooked on them early on. Had to stop. Ran out of shelf space.

WOW! That is a lot of boxcars!

Nice shelving!

Here are two real recent additions to my Thrall all door boxcar collection.

Larry

@Rigatoni Express Railroad posted:

Got hooked on them early on. Had to stop. Ran out of shelf space.

WOW ..........It's the only word I can get out.

Really nice display area too.