Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

MPC N&W boxcar...

This arrived Thursday, 8/6, photo taken for my growing inventory records:

The last Premier MTHRRC car, as far as I know..

---PCJ

Painted and decaled by me self....

Tom

A Menards Morton Salt boxcar at the Morton salt terminal.

While the vast majority of my boxcars are Pennsylvania Railroad designs, I do have a few non-Pennsy cars.  Here are a few of them.

The UP car is Weaver, the others are Atlas.

Here’s a old Atlas O. I repainted the doors by hand 

Last of the MTH club cars arrived this week

Boxcars for this fine Sunday.  

Boxcars and brake shoe smoke:

Rusty

                                                 Atlas O Cotton Belt wood sided boxcar. 

Hello B.C.Sun fans...wife and I are back home in Tx after summer away with family (and away from Covid!) so I am opening up the various "e-bay" finds that I ordered over the summer and were delivered to Tx so its been sort of like "Christmas" over the last few days.  This entry today is not all that rare although it was missing from my collection.  It is the Marx 34178 Great Northern boxcar (non-deluxe version) with the dark green body and type G trucks.  This was made in 1961with both type G and F (passenger car) trucks.  They also made a deluxe version as well (sliding door) but it was brown and only had type F trucks.  The color stayed the same for many years but changed to a much lighter green in 1975. 

Hope you have a great upcoming week!

Don

Cool Box cars for today, Trumptrain, neat layout as always, nice box cars, Don McErlean, Cool Marx Car, Happy Railroading Everyone...

Ron. Those are some nice pics of your Boxcars Thanks for sharing them 

Patrick great pics 

Paul. Like that Cotton Belt very much what a beautiful car

Don. Glad you made it back ok and a nice little car there 

Larry  My favorite is the Katy out of your group 

Leapinlarry / Lee thanks for your comments.  Larry, I see a Marx 176893 NYC "deluxe" box car with type G trucks made it into your post today.  Great little car but I bet he feels a little "short" compared to those beautiful scale ones on your layout

Best wishes all

Don

Don McErlean, thank you for the news, I’m not sure of what I have here in Marx as this set was a gift, here’s other pictures, and if someone has a pup trailer, I’m a player for 1. Lee Drennen, great paint job on the Hudson. Happy Railroading Everyone. 

Larry:  From my reference on Marx sets what you have is set # 41882 (A).  Note: the (B) set was same set but with SF diesels.

Locomotive: NH E7 AB units. These were made between 1960 and 1974 there also was a "Dummy A"unit made but it didn't come in this set. Large "N" over "H" and "2002" on sides likely identifies set being made in later part of that period but with Marx you can never be certain. 

Auto carrier: 51100, Southern, four automobiles (note for Marx "automobiles" includes panel trucks)

Boxcar : 176893 NYC Green

Flatcar: 5545 CB&Q, maroon two white NYC trailers

Caboose: C-635 NH black, orange and white

Transformer: 50 watt

Freight cars have plastic automatic couplers (so called "pickle forks") and type G trucks.

You got a fine gift Larry, the E-7's are very prototypical and run really well and the freight cars were all Marx "deluxe" line , 8 wheel plastic freights (the top of the line). 

Best of luck finding the missing trailer, unlike the auto's in the auto rack I don't know of anyone who makes reproductions.  The automobiles you have all look like standard original Marx loads.  The cars actually used on the auto rack car were provided by Marx at random from a basic selection that included 1950 Ford, Chevrolet, and Studebaker cars and panel trucks of various colors.

Don

My contribution to Box car Sunday...

Gandydancer 1950, Wow, Beautiful Box cars and super nice layout, brings back fond memories of yesteryear. Thank You. Your layout is so cool. Bar GP7 63, your weathered cars look real, as does your layout. You are a master at scenery and weathering snd simply model railroading. Wow. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Have a great week everyone!

@leapinlarry posted:

Gandydancer 1950, Wow, Beautiful Box cars and super nice layout, brings back fond memories of yesteryear. Thank You. Your layout is so cool. Bar GP7 63, your weathered cars look real, as does your layout. You are a master at scenery and weathering snd simply model railroading. Wow. Happy Railroading Everyone.

leapinlarry. Thank you Sir. I am glad you like it.

Johan

@leapinlarry posted:

Gandydancer 1950, Wow, Beautiful Box cars and super nice layout, brings back fond memories of yesteryear. Thank You. Your layout is so cool. Bar GP7 63, your weathered cars look real, as does your layout. You are a master at scenery and weathering snd simply model railroading. Wow. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Thank you leapinlarry. I have all the 64

64's but it took one heck of a long time to collect!

New boxcar from Menards Trains. Certainly stands out on the layout, terrific paint scheme.

Bill. That’s a nice Boxcar there’s a Menards about 15min from me guess I’m going have to get one 

Another beautiful Weaver car I think. Happy Sunday and have a great week 

The top one is correct, the bottom one was coated with varnish; a common practice many years ago.  An employee of the Heatbath Corporation was an O scaler and had these sides made up and would send a set out to anyone who asked and sent him an S. A. S. E. At least two numbers were available. A friend sent me a single unused side to scan; I would like to apply the artwork to a modern car such as a Weaver Railbox or a center-flow.

Edit: The Heatbath Corp. was still in existence until it was bought up a few years ago.

A whole lot of Merchandise Service goin' on...

Rusty

Boxcars for this fine Sunday! 

The CV car, by MTH, came from the Cumberland Valley Model RR Club.  I also have the gondola and flat bed cars.

The Gettysburg cars, by Weaver, were from Tommy Gilbert's.

Well BXCRSun folks here is my story for today.  Its incredibly busy at the Savannah Port Yard today, not sure why Sunday usually slow, but today everyone wants their car loaded or unloaded, so the freight house is on OT (yea! ).  The NYC switcher to the left has just pushed the B&M Boxcar to about the extent of track, can't get close to the freight house so the REA truck is up at yard end manually pushing the boxes from the truck into the car to get then forward fast.  Switcher is a Marx GE 70 Ton # 588 in NYC black / white while the B&M box car is a Marx "deluxe" car from the 1950's (it was available '52, '55, & '57).  The Road Switcher on the adjacent track is waiting to hook up to the train ASAP to clear out some space...BUSY DAY!

Happy BXCRSun everyone...have a happy and healthy week.

Don

Don McErlean, beautiful blue Boston and Maine box car, I love those Marx Cars... However I like those Atlas O box cars to. Happy Railroading Everyone...

Thanks Larry...I can see why you like the Atlas cars, I have a few but for the most part they are too long to run on my railroad so I have to hunt down the short ones.  This is one reason I like running the Marx Cars or Lionel 6464's they are short enough to go around my sharp curves.  thanks also for your good luck comments and remarks on teaching.

Don

Please notice the municipalities  in Illinois.  Thank you, John in Lansing, ILL

Weaver OGR / MJB coffee boxcar

MTH Premier Canadian Pacific. I see that Menards Trains is now offering a CP boxcar in the same paint scheme.

Rusty

Bill T, that’s a cool Canadian Pacific engine and box car, very unique. Wow. Rusty T., great picture of a real looking train, it could be the real thing. Super. Happy Railroading Everyone 

Happy boxcar Sunday! 

Box cars for this fine Sunday.  I the third photo I have a cattle car ... I guess a cattle car can be considered as a slated/vented boxcar?