Weaver Milwaukee Road rib side cars now shipping

It is also very kind of you to post this information here on the OGR Forum. Thanks, this is pretty good news.

Yup, seen that Friday.

Cant' wait, I have 2 on order!

Another style car I have been wanting in O for over 50 years, LOL!

Photos to follow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Steve. Can't wait to see what you do to them. I think we will pick up some at York. 

Indeed this is great news.  I can't wait to see them.

Thanks for posting. That is indeed good news. A recent posting from Paul Fischer suggested that shipments would be spread out over a period of time as the various versions come out of the paint shop and get assembled. If that is indeed the case, I'll probably be waiting a while for the 13 I ordered, since my dealer generally holds orders until they are complete, to save the customer some money on shipping. I'm OK with that, since it will save me a substantial amount of money on 13 cars versus shipping them out 2 or 3 at a time. That said, I'm eager to get them; a few will be permanent features on my layout and the rest will be running behind an S3 or early diesel at toy train museum open houses.

Fedex delivered 2 box cars this Sat. afternoon. One of them was my Chistmas present from Dan986's brother and wife. The other one is for Dan986's.

Olympian is out now that I planned to get. I don’t really like waiting another year for the yellow door car. 

We already have waited well over two years for the product, maybe three?

All in all, it will be a nice addition to the line up!

Mr. M, not much weathering needed on these cars. Like the wagon tops, they always looked quite good even in later years.

Must have been due to the better paint and primer the shops selected.

Just a dusting will be required. 

"We already have waited well over two years for the product, maybe three?"

It sure does seem that way but I checked my records last night and my order was placed in November of 2011.

Here are some photos of my new Milwaukee Road rib side boxcar that is made by Weaver.I am very happy with the quality of the boxcar.

Dan

That's a Weaver?

Web site shows an Olympian is shipping?

Well I guess its close enough, looks a bit odd.

All the latest Weaver cars have undersized graphics and fonts along with incorrect placement of those items.

I have notified Joe about the printing issue.

On this car, ROAD should be centered like THE appears.

As for the odd appearance, it may be the photo?

Thanks for the post.

You have good eyes SIRT.I probably would have never noticed,but the"THE"is a bit too high and the"ROAD"is a tiny bit low.I would think Weaver could have centered those words even between the ribs.The color is a different shade of brown than my HO model,I have no idea which is the correct shade.The Weaver car is also painted a semi gloss,almost all my other freight cars are painted flat,although the real boxcars were probably shiny when they left the factory,the lettering was probably not centered perfectly on the real ones too.Another super picky mention,the roofwalk ends bend up a minor bit at the ends.This can be fixed by sanding down the plastic on the body roof under the roofwalk ends that is pushing up the roofwalk.

Dan 

The real railroad didn't always get the stencils centered either. I just took a look at Railroad Prototype Cyclopedia 13, which has dozens of photos of ribside boxcars, and several of the photos show cars with "The" and/or "Road" too high or too low. So, we can take comfort in the fact that it's prototypical, even if we would prefer it was properly centered. 

Are all of the paint and lettering schemes produced by Weaver correct for this 40ft car with full length ribs?  I heard some complaints that they were not correct, and while all of the schemes look good, I would rather buy ones that are known to be correct.

thanks, ray

They do look nice! I am waiting for the CMStP&P with the Hiawatha logo version. I hope I don't have to wait to much longer.

Ray,

This link might answer your question.

https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/2415514336862789

Lima: Thanks for posting that link. I'm quoting below a couple of paragraphs I wrote in that thread, for the convenience of those who are looking for an answer on what is authentic. In addition, since that thread was posted, Weaver has added a gray-painted version numbered for a work train car. I believe that one is authentic. 

The two cars with "The Milwaukee Road," no herald, and "Route of the Hiawathas" and "Route of the Electrified Olympian" were the as-built 1939 paint schemes. The yellow striped ones with SEL and DF markings for load-restraint equipment were converted and painted in the early 1960's. The scheme with the Milwaukee Road herald was used from the late 1950's onward. The last two paint schemes on Weaver's list, with the CMStP&P herald (one with and one without the Hiawatha logo) were in fact applied to a small number of 50' cars in the 1940's; no 40' cars are known to have been painted this way but Weaver decided to go ahead and use the scheme, presumably because it is attractive and likely to be popular. It is an authentic Milwaukee Road design, just not prototypical on the shorter cars (at least, no photos are known of a 40' car painted in either of these two schemes). I like the design and will be getting one of each.

There is a 75-page article on the ribside cars, with many photos, in Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, volume 13. The article does not, however, contain photos of some of the later designs indicating load restraining equipment. Volume 2 of "Milwaukee Road Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment," a Morning Sun publication, also has a lot of ribside photos. Both books are available from Golden Spike Railroad Books in Tucson, Arizona. He's reliable and his prices are good.