It’s Rolling Stock Monday 1/20/25.. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers.

First I want to thank Paul for providing the information to me so I could find this car.
It’s the MTH 20-95290  MAERSK container car.  I was only able to find 1 of the 2 numbers.

I bought this for my Son. I don’t have or run container trains or MAXI stacks. The only containers I have are these 3 because they have the flag.


I run the LIONEL TOF cars.

Let’s see your rolling stock!

Glad to help, Bob.

Now I could just follow your lead…

But, since we have been reminiscing about the old stomping grounds recently, here’s two special run cars from TrainWorld a couple of years ago. There were a few other choices, but the voices just called to me about these two (in fluent Brooklynese I might add)!!!

Remember this one?

- walt

Following the leader today.  Both Lionel, 1 special run & 1 repurposed.

A MTH premier gondola that I removed the girder load and added weathered old trucks and axels, deadman blocks and a ETD.

Gene

Well it seems to be TOFC day on RSM so I guess I will follow suit.  This is my  only TOFC car for reasons I don't know and can't explain, but here she is!!  Its a Lionel #6424 car which is not listed in my "modern" listing of Lionel Rolling  stock.  So I can't give you a date when it was mfrd.

Best Wishes for a cold, dreary, "almost" snow Monday in Central Texas

Don

LCCA UNION PACIFIC HOPPER.

Here is an old kit-built livestock car shelf queen. It's 90 scale feet and won't navigate my 054 curves. I actually didn't buy for a runner it was a good price and interesting.

@pennsyfan posted:

Great scenes Patrick!

THanks Bob!

Thanks for starting us off Bob!  

Here's a trio of rolling stock for this RSM!  

Here a MTH RailKing gondola I weathered and filled with junk.

Dairymen's reefer by Lionel.

Monon custom run boxcar from Mr. Muffin's trains.  Check out the sounds.

@walt rapp posted:

Remember this one?

- walt

Yup!

Peter

@Dave Ripp.- WOW a 90 ft cattle car!  Those cows will loose market weight just walking from one end to the other !  Thanks for posting, never saw one that big before.

@trumpettrain - the sounds on that "hobo" boxcar were great!  Thanks for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

Boston and Maine welding car (I believe this was an uncatalogued production) and a repainted "speedy" boat car from UP livery into a ranger with NH livery (this may also have been an uncatalogued car). The welding torch lights up during operation and the welder figure rotates back and forth.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well it seems to be TOFC day on RSM so I guess I will follow suit.  This is my  only TOFC car for reasons I don't know and can't explain, but here she is!!  Its a Lionel #6424 car which is not listed in my "modern" listing of Lionel Rolling  stock.  So I can't give you a date when it was mfrd.

Best Wishes for a cold, dreary, "almost" snow Monday in Central Texas

Don

Don, The listing that I found for 6424 in PW  was a black car with autos. I did a search and found your car listed by        clicketyclacktoys.com. See below.  It’s listed as 6-26001. When I zoomed in on the photo the road number is 6424. I think the listing was for $67.
Update I just checked GB, it’s listed there at $150. Looks like you have a winner.

LIONEL • O GAUGE • 2001 BP Flatcar w/2 Piggyback Trailers 6-26001 • NEW OLD STOCK

BOB!!  Thank you for the information!  Finding that car had me "bam-boozeled"  My listing, like yours, kept telling me that the 6424 was a black car with auto's and I could not find another variation.  So thank you very much for your research.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

BOB!!  Thank you for the information!  Finding that car had me "bam-boozeled"  My listing, like yours, kept telling me that the 6424 was a black car with auto's and I could not find another variation.  So thank you very much for your research.

Best Wishes

Don

Don Glad to help

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Here is an old kit-built livestock car shelf queen. It's 90 scale feet and won't navigate my 054 curves. I actually didn't buy for a runner it was a good price and interesting.

This is cool.  It is based on the conversion of 86' high cube boxcars into triple level pig cars referred to as a "Big Pig Palace". 

Lionel made the 86' boxcar, and I have a PRR version of it. Shown next to my On3 D&RGW stock car for a fun size comparison. 

Here is a link to the prototype car:  Big Pig Palace

There was also a conversion to double decker versions for cattle referred to as "Big Steer Palace" cars. 

Speaking of long cars, this is a PRR G33 class mill gondola that is 68' long.  I believe it is a U.S. Hobbies one.  All I know it is LONG!  It is mislabeled as a G27 class gondola, but I have decal to fix that.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 1/27/25. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers.

Here are two K-Line food product reefers.
K-742-8022

K742-8021

Allow me to be the first one in the conga line of followers!!!

First up a pair of MTH milk reefers from a couple of years ago.

And (if I remember correctly) one of several Boars Head offerings from those wonderful folks at METCA…

THE NEXT SUPER BOWL CHAMPS.

Remember these Industrial Rail cars?

= walt

Here is the American Flyer #482 log car.  This is from 1940-1941 and represents the start of the take over of Chicago Flyer by Gilbert.  The A.C.Gilbert Company of New Haven, Ct purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago in February of 1938.  They began by introducing an entirely new line of trains at a scale of 3/16" to the foot or what is now known as "S" scale.  However up until the end of WWII they retained the O gauge trucks and track.  The Flyer more familiar 2 rail S gauge track did not appear till the post war period.  So this log car is a "mixture" its S scale and size but runs on O gauge track and also has the familiar pw American Flyer "link type" couplers.

The car is 7 5/8" long, came equipped with 6 smooth "logs" made from dowels, and marked with "American Flyer Lines" and "482" large number decals on the logs.  The car was most often seen with this green frame however it is also found with a black frame and very rarely with square timbers vice logs and even marked "483" these last two variations are VERY rare.

Best Wishes on a COLD, DREARY, Monday in Central Texas!!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is the American Flyer #482 log car.  This is from 1940-1941 and represents the start of the take over of Chicago Flyer by Gilbert.  The A.C.Gilbert Company of New Haven, Ct purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago in February of 1938.  They began by introducing an entirely new line of trains at a scale of 3/16" to the foot or what is now known as "S" scale.  However up until the end of WWII they retained the O gauge trucks and track.  The Flyer more familiar 2 rail S gauge track did not appear till the post war period.  So this log car is a "mixture" its S scale and size but runs on O gauge track and also has the familiar pw American Flyer "link type" couplers.

The car is 7 5/8" long, came equipped with 6 smooth "logs" made from dowels, and marked with "American Flyer Lines" and "482" large number decals on the logs.  The car was most often seen with this green frame however it is also found with a black frame and very rarely with square timbers vice logs and even marked "483" these last two variations are VERY rare.

Best Wishes on a COLD, DREARY, Monday in Central Texas!!

Don

Interesting Don; sort of a reverse ON30 which is o gauge on HO track

@pennsyfan - Good comment Bob, yes I would say you are correct.  The entire Gilbert American Flyer line of "S" scale trains from the time they took over the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago and moved it all to New Haven, Ct was left as 0 gauge even though the new cars introduced used S scale vice 0 scale.  Flyer used the forced break caused by the cessation of toy production during WWII to design and make ready their S gauge, 2 rail track and the appropriate transformers etc.  They then emerged as the American Flyer we likely both knew from our boyhood.

It is also interesting to note that Marx tried the same approach.  They developed a very handsome S scale all metal lithographed line of freight and passenger cars at around the same time period (late 30's early 40's) and they too were interrupted by the WWII ban on metal toys.  In fact it is said, although it can't be confirmed, that the Marx rather well known #99 all metal locomotive was developed just to pull these freights.  Marx however never changed their trucks, gauge, or track system and continued to offer their "scale" freights in S scale but 0 gauge up until about 1954-55.  It has been said that at that early time many Flyer users switched trucks on the Marx cars and used them on their Flyer layouts.  To this day they are quite handsome.

Best Regards

Don

Here's a Lionel Tractor on a flat car.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 2/3/25. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers. I have a few more NOS K-Line food reefers to show today. These were acquired when I was able to purchase just the K-Line out of a larger collection.

My parents both worked at and retired from Westinghouse when it was still big in Pittsburgh.  When Miller came out with his Circle W (for westinghouse - a well known sign in the burgh) I got it, made a crude building to hold it, and found these 2 cars that go nicely with it.

That sign is one that I've pretty proud of - he was going to make a version of it but posted on his site that he scrapped the idea for lack of info about it.  I did research and sent it to him and he made the sign - and gave me one to say "thanks".

= walt

Thanks for starting us off Bob!   Here are two flat cars ... one with logs ... and one with tractors.  The flat with logs is by Lionel and was weathered when I bought it at a train show.  The flat with tractors is a MTH model, which is on my " to weather list".  

@walt rapp posted:

My parents both worked at and retired from Westinghouse when it was still big in Pittsburgh.  When Miller came out with his Circle W (for westinghouse - a well known sign in the burgh) I got it, made a crude building to hold it, and found these 2 cars that go nicely with it.

That sign is one that I've pretty proud of - he was going to make a version of it but posted on his site that he scrapped the idea for lack of info about it.  I did research and sent it to him and he made the sign - and gave me one to say "thanks".

= walt

No video?

I remember that sign. The segments lit randomly. I think they said it would take thousands of years for the sequence to repeat. I also remember wandering around the East Pittsburgh works while working on HP computer equipment. What an amazing facility.

Well Bob, I apologize in advance for the condition of today's post.  It is one of my "ancients"!  I discovered this Ives # 65 Cattle car at an auction and just had to have this old gal.  The Ives #65 was first produced in 1910 and came as a 4 wheel or an 8 wheel car up to 1925.  Over those 15 years it came in a bewildering number of variations, my Ives book devotes 2 1/2 full pages of pictures to just the #65 !! This lithographed 8 wheel variation, from the New York Central and Harlem River RR (NYC & HR) sporting the orange/ yellow wood grained lithographing on the ends and open slot sides dates from 1918 to 1925 so it is between 100 and 106 years old.  The cross braces say (although some parts are worn off)  "Live Stock" on the left and "Transportation" on the right side of the door.

I love these old gal's...I admit it.  This one is remarkably complete for her age.  The two couplers are both complete and functioning as are both sets of trucks.  There is no rust on the frame, trucks, or wheels.  Both sides feature an operating door that still slides easily.  I just received this one from the auction and some time this week I intend to "run her" around the layout to celebrate her "Centennial"  trip!

Best Wishes to All.  Happy R.S.M.!!

Don

Lionel Toy Story Animated Gondola # 6-36745

Hopefully, no bird flu ...

Lionel Allis Chalmers. I worked summers in their parts warehouse in high school.

CN gondola on the move.

@pennsyfan posted:

“If it says Libbys, Libbys, Libbys on the label, label, label. You will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”.

Come on, admit it - you sang that

Now, when I was a kid, we had Renken’s milk on our table. Left in the milk box on the stoop early in the morning in glass bottles with those little cardboard stoppers!!! This was a METCA special run from a couple of years ago.

@Apples55 posted:

“If it says Libbys, Libbys, Libbys on the label, label, label. You will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”.

Come on, admit it - you sang that

Now, when I was a kid, we had Renken’s milk on our table. Left in the milk box on the stoop early in the morning in glass bottles with those little cardboard stoppers!!! This was a METCA special run from a couple of years ago.

Renken’s was the dairy of choice when I worked in the Deli during HS. Can’t tell you how many gallons of milk I packed out in those three years. Of course I have one of those cars!

@tnkMarx- That is a great perspective for your picture today.  It is both unusual yet really interesting and shows off the car very well.  Great job!

Don

@tnkMarx posted:

CN gondola on the move.

Great shot!