Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Boxcars for this fine Sunday!

WOOOEFEE!  Box Car Sunday is back!!  Lee, I read about you and your wife's struggle with COVID in another post.  Its great that you are getting better and feeling well.

My post's today are really a compendium of "box" like cars from over the past year or so.  I am away from my collection on a family visit, so If you saw one of these before I apologize.  Here we go.

Well just for the recent season, here is a fellow taking his Christmas tree home, passing by a Menards Yellow Frisco and a Menards Red Burlington Northern.

Here is one I picked up on a trip to Scandinavia, its a "Kole Vagon" which I interpret as refrigerator car, from Denmark.

Here is an interesting car, it looks like a box car but it functions more like a covered hopper.  Its a Hornby, Type 50, salt carrier car from the middle to late 1950's.

Finally, here is the familiar Marx red Baltimore and Ohio box car from around 1973.

Here is an admission of a weakness of mine for the Lionel plug door little boxcars, especially those that Lionel put out

for specific stores, products or events.  I recently acquired the one from the LCCA convention in 1976l

Well Happy Boxcar Sunday (again...YEA!) everyone

Don

                                            NYC Weather item #1,903...

Don. Thanks we’re doing a lot better. I like your shelving also.

Guys your Boxcars look great today

My boxcars are in standard gauge.

My contribution to Boxcar Sunday....

Celebrating playoff win today over the Titans with my Baltimore Ravens autographed boxcars.  Coach Billick said it was the first time he had autographed a boxcar at the time.  Been a Ravens PSL owner from day one.  Was Baltimore Colts fan until they moved to Indy.

Happy Boxcar Sunday. These are a pair of old Atlas I got several years ago. Enjoy your upcoming week.

Here's a new addition to the fleet. It's a custom run for the Railroad Museum of Long Island.

@trumptrain posted:

Boxcars for this fine Sunday!

Great Boxcars and Fun.. "Never seen before". Detailing the custom cars are off the rails!!

Larry I am taken by the curved roof boxcars.. What are they curved for? Always great photos sir!! thankee

Boxcars for this fine Sunday!

Weaver wagontops in B&O paint schemes.

Weaver Milwaukee Rd.

MTH Ma & Pay

Soooooo, my meager set has a couple that I (we) , did not get round to running... soooo, I un wrapped and here they are. MPC era, sooo they roll on the track without any effort... HA! I roll on the floor to get back up and THAT takes a GREAT amount of Effort... waiting for the wife to say, “wouldn’t it be easier to make a table in the spare room........for trains” and, like y’all suggest, she could store HER stuff... I Know, Right!!

my best attempt at photos-on-carpet:

Hi Box Car Sun fans...Miggy I love the Giraffe's !!  Great photos everyone.  I am still visiting away from my collection so I offer a small mixture from my photo archives again today.  This are just some fun box/cattle cars (RSJB18 - i normally buy all the offerings from the RR museum of LI but I must have missed that beauty!)

Here is a Type 50, Cattle Car, post nationalization British Rail, from Horby circa mid 1950's

A Hafner Automobile Box Car from about the same era, mid 1950's

Same vintage Hafner Cattle car from the "Streamliner" line...circa 1950's

OK those of you who have seen me post before know I cannot resist Marx.  So here is the Marx GE 70 Ton switcher pulling a Rock Island box car.  from 1959-1965

Finally an unusual entry...you guys with auto rack cars, try this on for size.  It sailed past us at the beach last summer headed for the port of Savannah. This is a Hoegh "autoliner".    Man those L&S managers are drooling over when this baby unloads.  It can carry up to 10,000 cars !

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone...have a happy and heallthy week

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Hi Box Car Sun fans...Miggy I love the Giraffe's !!  Great photos everyone.  I am still visiting away from my collection so I offer a small mixture from my photo archives again today.  This are just some fun box/cattle cars (RSJB18 - i normally buy all the offerings from the RR museum of LI but I must have missed that beauty!)

Don- check with Don Fisher at the club, dfisher@rmli.org. They just got the order in so maybe they have an extra one or two. I ordered mine recently after he posted the listing on the OGR Forum.

Bob

don, LOVE THEM Hafner and Horby cars.. Great fun.

(Gi-Raffes are mitches herd..... propagating like wabbits they are..

Happy Boxcar Sunday. Here’s a Weaver that is part of my collection.

Good Sunday Morning Boxcar Fans. This is another old Weaver.

Nothing fancy.  Just some quick shots of my new Lionel Friendship Train cars.  I did not get all available because the others were duplicates of my MTH cars.  Between the Lionel, MTH, and some home made cars (the PRR on right in first photo), I'm up to 13 total.  Need more to look good behind the Centipedes.

Old Lionel O-27 box car with Kadee's, Weaver trucks & wooden floor.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Old Lionel O-27 box car with Kadee's, Weaver trucks & wooden floor.

Very nice pic and upgrades Johan

For this fine Sunday ...

B&O Wagon Top boxcar.  The prototype wagon top  boxcars were made in the B&O Mount Clair Shops in Baltimore ... site of what is now the B&O Railroad Museum.  Although the sprawling  Mt. Claire shop complex incorporated many large buildings, including a locomotive erecting facility, I'm sure that the car manufacturing facility is long gone by now.  

REA express reffer ... I guess qualifies as a boxcar of sorts.

Woodside beer refrigerator car.

Richmond Fredricksburg and Potomac boxcar at Virginia Transportation Museum in Roanoke, VA.

RF&P boxcar gets unloaded on a team track.

Lee Drennen, that’s a beautiful box car and a great paint scheme, cool. Here’s a car that was priced so reasonable at a local hobby shop in Nashville, Happy Sunday Everyone.

@lee drennen posted:

Very nice pic and upgrades Johan

Lee. Thanks.

Johan

All boxcar train pulled by D& H ALCOS a few seconds into video.

@trumptrain posted:

For this fine Sunday ...

B&O Wagon Top boxcar.  The prototype wagon top  boxcars were made in the B&O Mount Royal Shops in Baltimore ... site of what is now the B&O Railroad Museum.  Although the large Mt. Royal shop complex incorporated many large buildings, including a locomotive erecting facility, I'm sure that the car manufacturing facility is long gone by now.  

@trumptrain

Pat:

Your photos are superb as was your video with the B&O wagon-top box car. I know that you are more well versed in B&O history than I am, but, are not the shops by the B&O RR Museum Mount Claire shops rather than Mt. Royal shops?

@Randy Harrison posted:

@trumptrain

Pat:

Your photos are superb as was your video with the B&O wagon-top box car. I know that you are more well versed in B&O history than I am, but, are not the shops by the B&O RR Museum Mount Claire shops rather than Mt. Royal shops?

Whoooooops!  Yes Mt. Claire shops.  Thanks for the correction Randy!  I made the edit in my post.

I've read alot of negative about the new milk cars but I purchased this one and I'm pretty happy with it. I didn't pre-order because of the price but thanks to an OGR member I got a nice price break on this one. Also like the old B&O

I got my LOTS Convention Car the other day. Another great effort from LOTS!!! Love the colorful graphics

Two of my Lykens Valley Hi-cubes, I built the ATSF but bought the PRR at a show:

Let me say that Santa Fe "target" decal was a real bear to put on properly!

Part of my youth was spent in Yakima, Washington. As a kid I would see the electric steeple cabs pulling strings of cars full of Yakima Apples in season. When I was lucky enough to see a old Walthers Decal set of the Yakima RR I bought it. The only car I had that was paintable at the time was an old Williams reefer car. This is it. It's not very detailed but I don't care, I really like it for my memories. Living on a mint farm with my uncle and aunt was wonderful. Music or View Master slides was our entertainment. No TV or even radio did they have. A John Deer tractor or the pickup truck was how we went to town. Oil heater in the back ground was the only heat in the winter. But I loved it. I also loved them for showing me what real life was about. Excuse me for showing this but it's my grandfather and uncle playing their bango's. Notice the spittoon next to my uncle. He hardly ever missed with his chaw. Don

Happy Boxcar Sunday everyone. Here’s another Classic Weaver Boxcar out of my collection

Great looking WM boxcar. I paint Weaver boxcars as they are still out there in undecorated form.

Here are a few recent works using K4 decals...

Tom

Boxcars for this fine Sunday!   The most common type of car to probably show up on a team track was a boxcar ( s ). Today I show boxcars being unloaded on a team track.

Well Happy BxCrSun everyone...Great pictures all...Trumptrain the wagon tops are really neat.  LeapinLarry and PRR MP54 those box / high cube cars are soooooo long I would need a table extension to run them!    Today I have something on the very opposite end of the scale, its a Marx 555 Colorado and Southern Refrigerator Car.  This one just arrived yesterday from another Marx collector.  It is a relatively common car in general BUT...this is the one with a RED ROOF, much more scarce than the blue roof version.  Made only pre-war between 1938 and 1942 with rivet T/S couplers and sliding doors.  It had a brief re-emergence in 1953 but with plastic knuckle couplers and the Marx logo / 555 on the end (which this car does  not have).

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone

Don

Don McErlean, wow, you’ve done it again, unique to Box Car sunday, nice Marx tinplate box cars, the red top cars are awesome, made before I was born (1944). You always bring a cool look to this thread. Trumptrain, you do the same, neat box cars, neat men at Work, one issue, the tow motor truck is taking a risk, one of the ramps is splintered, very Dangerous.... Just kidding.... Krieglok, your painted weaver cars are beautiful, great job, thanks for the pictures. So, here’s my box car picks for Super Bowl Sunday, Happy Railroading Everyone

Hi BxCrSun folks, I know you are out there, although I don't see any new posts for today.  It is an unbelievable weather situation in Texas, for the first time since they started recording the temperature, EVERY COUNTY in the entire STATE has a "Winter Storm Warning".  Everything is covered with glare ice...so its definitely a "stay inside and play trains day.

Last week Leapin Larry showed us a cool NASCAR Lionel car, and AEC atomic boxcar (not sure what they might ship in that !!), and (thanks Larry) a cool Marx NH E7 and matching caboose.  COOL!  So today, I have some extra time I thought that the theme of "VARIATIONS are NEAT" might be fun for such a dreary day.

So first up is the Lionel 1679 Lithographed Box Car.  This car started as being added to both the Lionel line and the (Lionel produced) Ives line in 1932-33 but then when Lionel stopped the Ives line in 1933 the car moved over to the Lionel lines and was produced for most if not all of the pre-war era.  Always part of the lower (0-27) priced sets and sometimes even clockwork sets it was produced in a bewildering array of variations.  I tried to select the "big" changes but there were many others at the detail level.  Here are all of the 3 major variations in front of the main depot of the L&S.

Here is the Type II body, cream sides, dark blue roof, "Lionel Lines" in the Oval herald on the left side.  Door guides are "state set" brown - although they changed to orange later. No product markings, latch couplers, and (this version) has Ni Journals - cars earlier than this one had Cu journals.  This version is from about 1935.

Here is the Type III body (which I think is the coolest !) and it has the "Baby Ruth" candy bar on the right side and what is normally called a "peacock" roof color.  Most of the official car data was removed to make room for the Candy Bar logo but I think the picture of the candy bar is way cooler than all that "data" .  The Door Guides and Door are still "state set" brown.  The "candy bar" car started in very late 1935 and likely lasted to 1938.

Finally the last large variation of the car, sometimes called the TYPE IV body.  The roof and the lettering are maroon and there is no candy bar picture, just the lettering "Baby Ruth" .  In addition, the "Lionel Lines" oval is replaced with the more common simple printing of the words "Lionel Lines".  Door guides and Door are orange.  The car was available in this form from 1939 onward until production stopped in 1942.

Here is another set of variations, on Lionel's somewhat more expensive 0-27 line (the 600 series represented sort of the top of the 0-27 line with the 800 series carrying the top of the line O gauge).  Again, there are many variations at the small detail level including a major change to the 2600 / 2800 series with "automatic" couplers late in the pre-war period.

First, the Ni trimmed #655 including the Ni number plates .  This car with its maroon roof, was carried from about 1935 to 1938.  It has the manual latch couplers.

The follow on car, really just substituted black rubber stamping for most of the Ni plates and numbers, although much more realistic car data was also added.  This car has the last version of the latch couplers, although still not electrically actuated.  This car was made from 1939 through 1940 .

Well there you have it folks.  I hope we do gain some other folks on Bx Cr Sunday as for me, I love the pictures and the information that they provide.  Hope everyone has a good week.

Don

Don McErlean, oh my, you’ve really done it this time, (Lionel Lines /Ives) 1923-1933, those Tin Plate cars are so fine, they are really memories of times slipped by, a little boy, getting up on Christmas morning and seeing those cars running on a track under the tree would be so thrilled. Thank you for posting them. Now I live in more modern times, so here are pictures of The Family Lines, L&N oldies but more newbies... Jushavnfun, Thank you for putting this fun thread together, box car Willey would love them all. Happy Railroading Everyone

Picked up two of the new Lionel single door 60' boxcars on my most recent visit to Grzyboski’s...

They are nicely detailed and the paint scheme is pretty crisp (sorry about the weird lighting... have to try again tomorrow). Now if they just didn’t have those new couplers

Boxcars from out west are unloaded in the east at Patsburg.  The last crate has been unloaded and Wes, who's been  working nonstop all morning, is sitting down taking a break.