Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Good Morning and Happy Boxcar Sunday. Here’s another Weaver for today 

Lee D., I like that Cotton Belt Car, Beautiful. Trumptrain, Beautiful scenes, great box cars, cattle cars work fine, they are boxy with good ventilation. Happy Railroading 

                                          MOW's..............

                                        The guy with a MASK must be sick. 

Happy BxCarSun everyone...Great photos all...OBTW Trumptrain out here on the frontier (Texas) we LIKE cattle cars so my view is post away!  My story today concerns my railroad, the Leonardtown and Savannah, today as usual the incredibly cheap management does everything it can to scrimp by but today it has even outdone itself.  The Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (TAG - a neighbor RR) wants and needs its double door box car back in order to ship some tractors out of a customers plant.  The L&S was planning to move the car on Monday but when TAG said they would pay the extra fee for a Sunday move well management just jumped at the chance.  Of course the Road Foreman of Engines had to dig REALLY DEEP to find something available to pull the car and it found old 1062 sitting on the "ready for scrap" line but still capable of getting up steam and likely OK to pull one car.  They dragged Old Joe out of bed, he being the nearly last engineer who can run steam, and paid him weekend + Sunday premium pay to take this car to the TAG.  Truth is, Joe couldn't have been happier, not only is he getting paid but he got out of digging that new garden the Mrs wanted him to do today. 

Here is Joe backing up 'ol 1062 to that all important TAG double door box car.

Here is that very important ($$) TAG double door boxcar

For you reality fans, the TAG double door boxcar is a Lionel (LTI) 19231 made in 1991 and 'ol 1062 is an 0-4-0 Plastic Steamer made at the end of the original Lionel era, 1963-1964.   By the way, despite the very poor reputation of these late issue plastic steamers, this one, purchased with tender in a local antique store for the princely sum of $5,  runs like a champ!

Happy Sunday everyone

Don

Patrick. Great pics I also like the cattle car being I’m a farm boy. That one pic looks like I’m trespassing on RR property as the B&O truck unloads 

Third Rail. Nice cars I like the MoPac car 

Larry. Thanks for the complement it’s one of my favorites took me a while to find one 

Steve. Very nice MOW cars and lighted as a bonus great job 

Here’s a pair of Atlas N de M boxcars that I bought via eBay a few months ago.

Larry

Lionel Western Pacific with sound.

A little something for everyone - nothing but boxcars in sight.

American Flyer - 1920's and 1938

Bing 1910 and 1920's

Crown - 1980's

Fandor - 1920's

Ives - 1920's

Lionel - prewar ca 1930's, postwar - regular and Scout, MPC, and Modern

Marx - prewar and post war

New Marx - prototype and test - ca 1990's

SMR - 2010

                                                                      CNJ

Happy boxcar Sunday from rainy Chicago.

Rusty

Rusty, very nice ST&P, I am guessing that is a custom boxcar.

@Bill T posted:

Rusty, very nice ST&P, I am guessing that is a custom boxcar.

Thanks.

Yep, all three are roads I developed.  The ST&P hails back to the 1960's when I was in HO.  It was just reporting marks until the mid-1970's when I finally assembled a sensible combination of names.

The New England Shore Line and Olympia both hail from the mid 1980's.

Rusty

Here’s another Weaver of mine 

Wow Robert, that is quite a display of box cars...I think I can id them all except the tiny little 4 wheel job in the center of the second row and the blue WARR #192 in the center of the last row.  If you think of it would you post the manufacturer of those some time?  Thanks.

Well my contribution today is part of something I am trying to add to my collection, the very first MPC boxcars.  Even though they are nearly 50 years gone, you can still find them  inexpensively and usually in the box.  Not that I expect they will really ever be all that valuable but I like the historical aspect of showing a famous name in transition.  They are by the way a fairly good product and run well on my small layout (they are short, 6464 length).

So here is the Lionel (MPC) 9214 Northern Pacific boxcar issued 1971-1972.  Pictured with my "new" KLINE Santa Fe switcher.  I say new because I "discovered" it, still sealed in the box, among my storage units...likely bought quite awhile ago, put away and forgotten.  The box car really has first class printing and decoration, automatic couplers on both ends, and the new "fast track" wheels which lower rolling friction.  I don't normally try to give anyone advice, but if you run a small layout like mine, 0-27 switches etc, these very early MPC cars can be a real good value.  They are  not  yet expensive (this one was $10 NIB) ,  are well decorated and run well. 

Have a Happy Labor Day Holiday everyone, none for me the University has cancelled the holiday to shorten the semester.

Don

Taken at Steamtown on Thursday morning...

@SIRT posted:

 

@SIRT

Your modeling  is superb, a combination of excellent scenery and weathering of rolling stock. Bravo!!!!

Also, your city skyline backdrop is spectacular! Was that made from a series of original  photos or is it commercially available?

Sunday’s keep rolling around and gee willy, there’s lots of really beautiful box cars, real, model and model weathered, all fun to view. Happy Railroading Everyone 

Here are a few recent paint/decal projects I completed...

Top car is Atlas, others are Weaver...

Tom

Don,  the little 4 wheel in the back is Bing ca. 1910.  The W&ARR is SMR's two rail scale model of the W&A's boxcar from the Civil War period.

Thanks Robert...appreciate your responding.  I was playing a little personal game of "trivial pursuit" and  trying to name the maker of all the cars you displayed but those two eluded me.  Now I can sleep tonite! (LOL)

Don

Boxcars for this fine Sunday.

A few of the Arizona Mines outside braced boxcars from Gad-Pac / Weaver.

Happy box car Sunday to all

                                 #1860 FAMILY LINES...

Time to deliver the potato harvest.  Thank goodness for these eye catching boxcars which remind the public of wonderful  products from the state of Maine!  Lobsters anyone?  Maple syrup anyone? 

Sacks and barrels of spuds being unloaded. 

Here's the Lionel MPC version of the State of Maine boxcar.

Happy BxCrSun everyone!  Well, a few weeks ago we "broke the barrier" and displayed some cattle cars, so I am going to take that to a slight extension this time.  Here is a Hornby "Milk Service Van" as it is named in the UK.  Apparently the cattle car like appearance comes from the fact that they do not or did not require the insulated and heavily iced milk cars that were common in the US.  In the UK it was typically cool enough and/or runs were short enough that the natural flow of cool air over the milk cans was sufficient to keep the milk fresh on the way to market.  This van is lettered for the Southern Railway and dates in the Hornby line from about 1954 (Hornby was quite late in "recognizing" nationalization in the UK which happened in '48).  So here is a "Milk Service Van" for your perusal.  Note that the slats go all the way to the floor for (I assume) maximum airflow. 

For comparison, here is a Hornby Cattle Van of the same period (about 1954).  Note that the slats only go about 1/2 way down to the floor.  The reason I suppose was to protect the livestock from debris or perhaps pesky children with sticks or maybe just to help contain them.  Later versions of the Cattle car had the center door replaced with a "ramp" door which was hinged at the floor and would swing down providing a loading ramp for the cattle into the car.  The Milk Van of course loaded at a platform and did not need such a ramp.

Well , I though you might enjoy seeing how different countries handled the problem of milk delivery most likely due to their different climates or different amount of time the product had to stay on the train.

By the way, if you are interested in how the RR handled Milk in the United States, Kalmbach Media, under the Model Railroader Guide to Industries Series, published a real neat soft cover book titled..."Milk Trains and Traffic" by Jeff Wilson, Kalmbach Media, 2019.  I bought mine brand new for $22 but you could likely find one used today for less. It is packed tight with actual pictures of prototype equipment and processes. 

Don

Here is my contribution to the “State of Maine” boxcars, the one with the black roof is MTH and the rest are Lionel

Happy boxcar Sunday to all! 

3 Weaver express boxcars for C&NW subsidiary Omaha Route. The top 2 cars have Kadee couplers on both ends, the bottom one has both Kadee and Lionel compatible couplers so I can add them to a passenger train. 

Don McErlean, Wow, you always come up with a unique surprise on box car sunday, thank you. Third Rail Bill T, neat box cars, show more of your layout when you have time, Fellows, Beautiful state of Maine box cars, Randy Harrison, Cool Burlington box car, All really cool cars, Happy Railroading Everyone... 

Ok Don McErlean, here’s a new car that just arrived from Lionel, an army car, that my track mobile will be shuffling around. I didn’t even remember ordering the car, but living 3 minutes to Ft. Campbell, it’s a must have. Happy Railroading Everyone 

More State of Maine. 

I bought these two cars together. Didn't realize one was 027 and one scale. No worries though. They are one of my favorite paint schemes. 

Wow Larry really cool Army car love the design and art work. Neat!

Don

Two NYC oldies but goodies...

Larry, 

The layout is not mine, but it's the property of the Chicagoland Lionel Railroad Club in New Lenox, Illinois of which I've been a member for the last 12 years. Website is CLRCTRAINS.com. No open houses right now but members are able to run trains on a limited time and occupancy  basis. We invite you to visit when this corona virus thing is over. 

A few more of the Gad-Pac outside braced Arizona Mines boxcars