Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

                                                Ann & Ann....

A couple of oldies from sets

Lionel From the 50's

This is from MTH the early 90's

I love the MA & PA, this is Weavers version 

Memorial Day is tomorrow, a day we honor those who died in military service for our country. Our flag is flown from daylight until noon at half-staff in honor of our fallen.  At noon, the flag is raised to full-staff by the living "who resolve not to let their sacrifices be in vain, but to raise up in their stead and continue the fight for liberty and justice for all."  Quote from Home of Heroes.

Memorial Day is not a day of  celebration, but a day of remembrance.  I do not have any specific Memorial Day items to show, but I do have several cars with our flag in my Red-While-Blue collection.  Here is my favorite:

While I do not have a flag pole, I will be flying my porch flag all day with the Black Mourning Streamer until noon.

Boxcars for this fine Sunday.

OK, I admit to stretching the thread but hey, it is a box!.  Always loved the "tofcee" on this one....

I LOVE New England & New York.....

Here is a series of cars I did as volunteer manager of our Museum's gift shop for the Mid-Continent Ry. Museum in North Freedom, Wis. I had been wanting to do this for some time, and finally we did. I started out in HO only, and when I found Seymour Knight, of Pleasant Valley Process in Cogan Station, PA. I could now do all the cars I did in HO, in O gauge. And from then on, Seymour did new releases in HO and O. Unfortunately Seymour passed away on October 7, 2015 and my custom cars have come to a halt. I hope someday to find people to do these cars in HO and O in small quantities. I also did a few more boxcars, a caboose, and a couple of tank cars, and hopper cars. All these cars were using blanks from Weaver, who had a nice working relationship with Seymour. Keep in mind these were for fun, and I incorporated our Museum in many ways, including that  the Museum fictitiously leased out the cars. Our slogan is used on some items at the Museum.

jushavnfun:

      Seeing that Baby Ruth car again made me smile! That car was in my first Lionel set from 1951 that my parents gave me when I was 6 years old. The set consisted of a Lionel 6110 steam engine and tender, that Baby Ruth car, a gondola and a caboose. I played with that set for hundreds of hours and my family added to it with Lionel accessories. I still have the set. If it was considered a starter set to get kids interested in trains, it WORKED!

   John

Well here we are on BXCRSun: (Ok I just made up that acronym)...Great pictures all.  corsair29 - love the wagon top B&O, CNJ#1601 great Jersey Central Box, Jeff B. Haertlein - great custom cars, wish I had one of those Russel's Dairy or Benders Feed Mill cars, they would fit really well on the Leonardtown and Savannah. CAPPilot - really liked your paragraph on the celebration for Memorial Day, afraid almost all our local celebrations, even the one at the Veterans Home (here since the Civil War!) were cancelled. 

Perhaps making a small note of another kind of passing, here are some pictures of some businesses that are now or have previously passed into bankruptcy.  These were stalwarts of most of the 20th and early 21st century (at least in my life) and are now gone or nearly gone.  Victims of our new ways of shopping or consumer trends or ???? who knows.  Anyway for Box Car Sunday, here is a small remembrance. The cars are mostly from my "plug door" box car collection.

First - my kids dream store - Toys R Us, founded 1948, modernized under a new mgmt team in '57, bankrupt 2017.  By the way, Lionel made around 10 of these cars for this store, mostly differing in details,number, and decoration in the 70's and 80's.  Two of them (at least 2 which is all I have) are "Giraffe" type cars with Geoffrey's head activated to duck down as the car passed a track trip.

Sears...my goodness where would we have been with out Sears?  Founded in 1886 and by 2018 bankrupt. This plug door box car is from a Sears special Lionel set for their "Centennial Celebration" in 1986

The Kiddie City Hopper, note toy train fans that this was LIONEL Kiddie City from the 1980's onward although it was started in the 1960's.  It grew under Lionel to be the 4th largest toy store chain in the US!  In 1991 they filed for Chapter 11 and reduced their store count and by '93 they were gone. (OK I know its not a box car but I couldn't resist the Lionel connection)

Finally, where we always took our kids (born in the 70's) for their "good clothes" - after we shopped at Sears for most everything else.  Founded in 1902 and filed for bankruptcy in 2020.  This car from their 75th anniversary in 1977.  Special car made by Lionel.

t w

Best wishes for Box Car Sunday to all

Enjoy the Holiday

Don

A long box car train passes the Terryville yard on main line track #1.

Unloading on the siding at the Home Depot.

Fresh ham unloading in the Terryville yard.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here we are on BXCRSun: (Ok I just made up that acronym)...Great pictures all.  corsair29 - love the wagon top B&O, CNJ#1601 great Jersey Central Box, Jeff B. Haertlein - great custom cars, wish I had one of those Russel's Dairy or Benders Feed Mill cars, they would fit really well on the Leonardtown and Savannah. CAPPilot - really liked your paragraph on the celebration for Memorial Day, afraid almost all our local celebrations, even the one at the Veterans Home (here since the Civil War!) were cancelled. 

Perhaps making a small note of another kind of passing, here are some pictures of some businesses that are now or have previously passed into bankruptcy.  These were stalwarts of most of the 20th and early 21st century (at least in my life) and are now gone or nearly gone.  Victims of our new ways of shopping or consumer trends or ???? who knows.  Anyway for Box Car Sunday, here is a small remembrance. The cars are mostly from my "plug door" box car collection.

First - my kids dream store - Toys R Us, founded 1948, modernized under a new mgmt team in '57, bankrupt 2017.  By the way, Lionel made around 10 of these cars for this store, mostly differing in details,number, and decoration in the 70's and 80's.  Two of them (at least 2 which is all I have) are "Giraffe" type cars with Geoffrey's head activated to duck down as the car passed a track trip.

Sears...my goodness where would we have been with out Sears?  Founded in 1886 and by 2018 bankrupt. This plug door box car is from a Sears special Lionel set for their "Centennial Celebration" in 1986

The Kiddie City Hopper, note toy train fans that this was LIONEL Kiddie City from the 1980's onward although it was started in the 1960's.  It grew under Lionel to be the 4th largest toy store chain in the US!  In 1991 they filed for Chapter 11 and reduced their store count and by '93 they were gone. (OK I know its not a box car but I couldn't resist the Lionel connection)

Finally, where we always took our kids (born in the 70's) for their "good clothes" - after we shopped at Sears for most everything else.  Founded in 1902 and filed for bankruptcy in 2020.  This car from their 75th anniversary in 1977.  Special car made by Lionel.

t w
Yea Don:

Thanks for the compliments on our custom cars. About all that is left is the nice Effinger car and maybe three of the Canning Factory car

Best wishes for Box Car Sunday to all

Enjoy the Holiday

Don

@John Knapp posted:

jushavnfun:

      Seeing that Baby Ruth car again made me smile! That car was in my first Lionel set from 1951 that my parents gave me when I was 6 years old. The set consisted of a Lionel 6110 steam engine and tender, that Baby Ruth car, a gondola and a caboose. I played with that set for hundreds of hours and my family added to it with Lionel accessories. I still have the set. If it was considered a starter set to get kids interested in trains, it WORKED!

   John

This is pretty close

I

MPC forever...

jushavnfun:

      That's very close to what I had. An engine, a tender and three inexpensive cars and I was hooked! (Then came the 394 Beacon, the barrel loader, the trolley car, the milk car, some Plasticville, a Lionel 1033, and on and on and on!)

     Thanks for that Baby Ruth memory,

     John 

Wow everyone, there’s a Lot of box cars out there, Don McErlean great lineup of famous billboard box cars, and CAPpilot great looking box car with the american eagle as this is a great time to reflect back in our memories of those that fought and gave their All for our freedom.  Yes, we are blessed in so many ways, and our hobby brings us together. Stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually.... Happy Memorial Day Everyone... Happy Railroading 

Crown outside braced boxcar.

The Pennsy built over 29,000 X-29 boxcars from the late '20s through the early '30s, and there were many thousands more ARA boxcars used by most railroads that were copies of the X-29.  The X-29 was easy to spot due to its short height.  By itself, it looked longer than 40' but when next to another boxcar you saw how short it was. Here are some photos of an Atlas X-29.

An X-29 next to a re-built X-26c.

Bills the man starting us off once again, thanks Bill, great info in railcar history Ron.

Here's s O me JLC boxcars I picked up recently.

                         BE SPECIFIC...

Two ponies and a wagon

Brendan

I love the MA & PA

Where is the beef?  Now we know! 

Well Hokie71 opened the door on Cattle cars so I will add to the mix.  The Leonardtown and Southern (Tx Div) is contemplating some new Cattle cars (we ship a lot of cows) and is even going abroad for possible examples to buy...(Management of the RR is CHEAP to the extreme) and has imported a few examples to run on their home road to see how they perform.  One of the test evaluations is shown below:

On the left is a Hornby No 1 Cattle Wagon made from '49-'54 and still carrying the pre-nationalization RR name of "LMS" in the car data.  The one on the right is a Hornby Type 50 wagon made from '57 to '62 as listed in the catalog but sales continued (IAW Hornby announcements)  "until stock was expended" which perhaps is as late as '69.  What about that creature in the ski cap???  Oh, that is BESSIE the L&S "Test Cow" and a member of managements evaluation team.

Happy BXCr Sun everyone.

Don

@Msarshalltramp posted:

A couple of mine that I like.

Some of the best box car weathering I've seen. Wish they had kadees.

Ron

Wow, there’s a lot of box cars out there in model railroad land, all beautiful. Hope everyone is staying safe, staying healthy, continually praying. Have a great rest of the weekend. Happy Railroading...

Kris Model Trains boxcar

A second life for a SF boxcar , now a MOW car

Lionel RJ Corman boxcars

Changin' Times:

Rusty

My Pennsy themed layout's time frame is late 1949 (with a few exceptions).  So I'm always looking for items you would have seen at that time.  The Pennsy started its Less Than Carload (LCL) "Merchandise Service" in 1947 and it lasted until the late 1950s when it lost out to trucks.  The MS fleet had three paint schemes, the first from 1947 to 1950.  This first paint scheme is the only one I have on my layout since the others are past my time frame. 

This scheme was applied to only three classes of boxcars, the 40' X-29b, the 50' X-41b, and the 60' X-40b.  MTH has put this scheme on its 40' AAR boxcar and its 50' PS-1 boxcar to simulate the X-29b and X-41b.

While they look good and have the correct paint schemes for the length of car, the car types are not correct but beggars can't be choosers.  Hopefully someday someone will do a 60' car.

Bought my first Atlas and love the details I will definitely be purchasing more. 

CAPPilot Ron, I like the Pennsylvania box cars, also, many others. My shelves came out of a dumpster at my cabinet makes shop, free, solid Oak, I just had to sand them, stain them, attach to my train room wall. Happy Railroading.

Nothing says " Ah Ha" like the Ma &Pa! 

@leapinlarry posted:

CAPPilot Ron, I like the Pennsylvania box cars, also, many others. My shelves came out of a dumpster at my cabinet makes shop, free, solid Oak, I just had to sand them, stain them, attach to my train room wall. Happy Railroading.

Larry,

Those shelves look a lot sturdier than mine.  Very nice collection.  Love the Lionel FT.

Here is a before and after for a Weaver box car- still not sure I did the right thing with leaving  that yellow door...  ( I saw a NS box car with one and thought I would give it a try.)

Great Boxcars All!!  Leapinlarry, I would like to live near you...anyone who puts solid oak in a dumpster should be MY neighbor - am very jealous  shelves look beautiful.  My contribution this Sunday is a box car but of the automobile carrier type.  Made by Marx from 1957-1959, which is about the correct end point for these type cars on the prototype railroads.  By the end of the 1950's, RR's  had lost some 90% of the finished automobile transport business to trucks.  Open Auto racks, are what recovered the automobile transport business for railroads as it finally gave the RR's a car with more capacity than the typical truck,  began to appear in 1960. These displaced the Auto-box car rapidly and the RR's went from some 600 open racks in 1961 to some 15,000 by 1968. In the 1970's the closed auto rack became the dominant form with side panels installed to prevent vandalism.  (Note :  My data above and below is from "Railroading and the Automobile Industry", Jeff Wilson, Kalmbach Books, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2019)

This car seemed a little small to me so I decided to check the measurements against prototype data using 1/4" to the foot.    It is small in length.   Many automobile cars (in fact 25,502 in 1947) were 40 foot cars, but the Marx car above scales out to about 33 ft so it is a bit too short.  The height inside is also too low, the average interior height of a prototype car would have been about 10 to 10 1/2 ft and this car measures about 9 ft.  Many of these cars had an internal rack to increase capacity from 2 to 4 cars which came into use from the 1930's on and which required a 12' door and 10'  interior height as a minimum.  The door opening on the Marx car is very close to scale being about 14 ft wide with both doors open (which had become standard by the 1940's) and to the left of center as were most of the prototype cars.  So Mr. Marx got close but made compromises to deal with his primary customer, someone running small tight radius layouts.  Which, by the way, is why this car and other 40 footers run really well on the Leonardtown and Savannah.  Thank you Mr. Marx!!

By the way, if you are interested in the RR's connection with the Automobile Industry and New Auto delivery and Parts traffic I recommend the Kalmbach book, it is relatively inexpensive ($19.95),  soft cover in magazine size  and full of pictures and interesting facts. 

Happy Sunday everyone

Don

Better late than never. Here is my contribution for the week.

More cars of the box kind, although reffers.

This is the MTH prototype ( first car made ) Ellicott & Sons Ice Cream Reffer.  Since Ellicott City is home of the first railroad terminus in the US, and the county seat of the county of which I live, I had to have this car. 

Got of love this Reffer with a glass lined tank. 

Of course some beer, after all it's summer ... well almost! 

So there you have it Ice Cream, Milk, and Beer ... not to be consumed at the same sitting. ;-) 

Great pics and info everyone,  thanks for contributing to this post, love ya!!!

Hi All,

I'll get the first start on this weekend's Box Car Sunday (unless someone else beats me to it) with a scratch-built box car project I did almost 40 () years ago.  Dang, where'd all that time go?!?!?!

After winning an HO scale Walthers craftsman gondola kit as a door prize at a train show and building it, I was impressed with the construction details and how easy it actually was to build.  I was partial to old time freight cars back in those days anyway, and had a small collection of MDC/Roundhouse HO scale old-timer cars in my stable.  If memory serves, I had seen some O-scale trucks and other detail parts for relatively little cost at my local hobby shop, and it occurred to me, why not try my hand at scratch-building some old time freight equipment, in O-scale?  The perfect, low cost hobby for a young college-age student on summer break with lots of time on his hands and no job or money!

I started out by taking my favorite box car at the time, an HO scale MDC/Roundhouse 36' Truss Rod Single-Sheathed Box Car, measuring it up, and then making up my own working drawings in 1/48 O-scale in order to build it.  I believe the only pre-manufactured parts I purchased were the trucks, a brake wheel, a brake cylinder, Kadee O-scale couplers, some HO scale brass rail stantions (probably closer to O-scale, if the truth is known), and a short length of tiny chain used in the brake rigging.  Everything else was bass board sheets and shapes, Strathmore board, brass wire, sheets, channels, tubing, and angles, steel staples for foot stirrups, and a few plastic shapes.  I made up jigs for bending the brass wire grab rungs and any other bent wire pieces for the model.  I hand-scribed all the bass wood sheathing (both sides of each sheet!) to represent the board planking.

But enough yacking, let's look at some pics...................................

Here's a side view of the car (obviously).  I painted it with Floquil box car red, if memory serves, some sort of brownish or burnt umber interior, and a grimy black underside.  I never did letter or decal it.  I've always been planning to, just never got around to it.  One of these days, maybe?   Talk about procrastination! 

The side doors and end door open on my model.  They slide in brass channels.

The interior is fully detailed, as you can partially see here and in a few other photos.

Some more detail on the non-brake end.  The "steel plate" corner braces on the sides/ends are made from Strathmore board, with tiny little squares of brass sheet glued on to represent square-headed bolts.

Here you can see the end door on the brake end.  For several years afterwards, I had no idea what it would have been used for on the prototype.  But, the MDC/Roundhouse car evidently had one on it, so my O-scale rendition had to have it, too.  Also a good shot of the grab rungs and the wire staple stirrup.

Here's another angle looking down at the top.

And a shot of the bottom.  I don't remember who made the trucks, they're plastic archbar trucks and sprung.  Possibly Athearn?  Like I say don't remember, and don't even know if they're still available today.

Lastly, an upside down view of the non-brake end.  Phewww!  Quite the project, ehhh?

I even scratch-built the display track.  I sawed my own ties out of 1 x 4 pine on my dad's radial arm saw (I still have that saw today and use it on occasion).  I glued the ties to a 1 x 4 board and stained or painted them.  Then I stripped the rails from a piece of Atlas HO scale code 100 flex track and hand-spiked them down to the ties (every tie).  Lastly I ballasted the track with plain old kitty litter, which looked pretty good to my eye.

Well, that's what I used to do when I was young, broke, and stupid.  Now that I'm old, broke and stupid, I've been gravitating more and more to 3-rail O-gauge - heck with that 2-rail stuff! 

Hope you enjoy. 

A few GN boxcars that were nicknamed the circus boxcars.

I love the MA & PA and was really happy to find this Weaver version

Inspired by the New Haven:

Rusty

                                                            M.S. ACY.....

Williams by Bachmann, Operating Boxcar

Gary

Guys what great cars.  MIxed Freight - great car and a really good back story, thanks.  BillT - neat cars, had never heard of the GN "circus" cars before,RPMcobra - I also love the "Ma and Pa" just got an Atlas box from Trainworld and have not even opened it yet, so good things to come.  Great pictures everyone, amazing the diversity of box cars our RR had at one time.

Here is my contribution today: Not quite a box car but a Milk Car with a streamlined cover.  These were reasonably common during the peak years of RR milk traffic in the 30's (Kalambach has a neat little book on the Milk industry and RR's with lots of pictures) .  This one is from Lionel and it is labeled Burlington Northern which is a relatively new RR created by merger, so I am not sure that there exists a prototype or not.  I just liked the shape and decoration and it fits the tight curves of my layout. 

Happy BoxCar Sunday everyone.

Don

Good morning everyone.

Here is my Lionel X31a boxcar.  Unfortunately, Lionel put a little too dark paint on this one.

The bigger issue for me are the markings on the car.

The RPKD date (1-8-49) is before the build date (6-56).  Plus the car has the circle keystone which was no longer used after 1952.

The X31a boxcars were built between 1934 and 1936, so I'm guessing the 5 in 6-56 was in error.  If you can change the 5 to 3, then everything is correct.

The model boxcar Lionel used is also not correct for the X31.  As I have said before, beggars can't be choosers.

Rutland boxcar.  I took this photo while on a visit to Strassburg.  

LCCA 50th ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION ON SITE U.S.A.F. SAC  BOXCAR    GG1GUYY

Some boxcar flicks.

Have a great Box Car Sunday on this FLAG Day. 

Here's some Menards boxcars I tried to age

How about some action? Got Milk?

Wow, there’s lots of beautiful and nicely weathered and also unique box cars pictured here recently on this box car sunday forum thread. This car I’m showing is an automobile box car made by MTH, purchased years ago simply a shelf queen that’s supposedly scale in length. I thank MTH for making so many different variations of rolling stock. Hope everyone is having a great weekend, staying safe, staying healthy, continually praying. Happy Railroading 

Boxcars in daily use. 

Boys exploring the railroad yard on their bikes.  Nothing is more interesting than an empty boxcar.  

Some electrifying cargo. 

I guess express reffers are a type of boxcar? 

Thanks Larry and Patrick for all your great contributions every week. Good to see dedicated modelers enjoying their stuff. 

Larry - Maybe an Alaska R.R. trip in 2021?

More milk, please!

Ron

Love the old Pan Am logo...

I ran across this K-Line REA boxcar in patriotic colors while going through my Red-White-Blue fleet.  I bought it many years ago because there were several boxcar models in this scheme, both in N and O, so I thought it was based on a real prototype.

For fun I did some research to find a photo of a prototype car.  Well, there aren’t any.  I check several REA related web sites and my two REA related books* and nothing, so I’m assuming this car did not exist.  Oh well, it is a good looking car, nicely detailed, and goes well with the rest of my RWB cars.

*In my defense, I bought the car before the books.

Well, here we are again for another Box Car Sunday.  My contribution today is a bit of a potpourri of miscellaneous box cars.

First is a Hornby, Saxa Salt type 50 "box car" although you might almost consider it a hopper or even a tank car.

Next is a Danish Refrigerator Car or Kole Vogon I don't know much about this one, it was a flea market find when I was actually in Denmark on business a number of years ago.

NN

Then we have the Marx, GAEX "scale" box car from the 1950's . This version on "high" trucks to match up with the #21 Marx lithographed Santa Fe F-3 locomotive.

Finally a couple of classic 6464 Lionel's from the post war era.  Pulled by my Air Force AMT Beep!

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone...have a good week

Don

For this fine Sunday ... " The "cabbox" car.  A combination boxcar/cabbose.  Used by MOW crews and branch line service.  Here are a couple by MTH ( RailKing) that I weathered.  Unfortunately I was not able to front light this photo session, so the scenes in these photos turned out to be darker thus not highlighting the cars well.  

Running the Espee today shipment of fruit and vegetables to Texas

The WP and Marsh Cigars

Let's get started

Rainier Beer

I purchased a Susie-Q boxcar some years back thinking it was around in the 1940s.  The reason I thought this car was in use then was it was on a friend's layout who strictly modeled post WWII.  I was very disappointed to learn this was an early 1960s paint scheme.

There were 25 boxcars painted this way and it looks like some lasted into the '80s.  There is GW 8-64 stenciled on the side which I think means the car was painted at the Edgewater, NJ yards on the NYS&W in 1964.

There is an old wood boxcar on display at a museum that has this paint scheme, but that was painted after it was put on display.

@CAPPilot posted:

I purchased a Susie-Q boxcar some years back thinking it was around in the 1940s.  The reason I thought this car was in use then was it was on a friend's layout who strictly modeled post WWII.  I was very disappointed to learn this was an early 1960s paint scheme.

There were 25 boxcars painted this way and it looks like some lasted into the '80s.  There is GW 8-64 stenciled on the side which I think means the car was painted at the Edgewater, NJ yards on the NYS&W in 1964.

There is an old wood boxcar on display at a museum that has this paint scheme, but that was painted after it was put on display.

Hi Ron, now I do not feel so bad about selling my MTH version off a couple years ago.

I originally bought it because of the word "Susquehanna."  Back in the mid-late 70's worked for a company that produced component supports for the nuclear power industry.  In fact as Quality Supervisor had to spend time in Berwick, Pa. at the "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station" (nuclear plant) construction site investigating a complaint.

Ron

The latest addition to my rolling stock. Painted and decorated by Christine Braden. Legend Brewery is a local to Richmond Va. Their Brown Ale is excellent. This is an Atlas 60' car.

All beer reffers.

I love the MA & PA and a very nice version Williams by Bachmann modern MA & PA 40'

@trumptrain posted:

All beer reffers.

Pat did you buy into the pre-orders Atlas Natty Boh Reffer's  🙂

@PRRronbh posted:

I originally bought it because of the word "Susquehanna."  Back in the mid-late 70's worked for a company that produced component supports for the nuclear power industry.  In fact as Quality Supervisor had to spend time in Berwick, Pa. at the "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station" (nuclear plant) construction site investigating a complaint.

Ron,

My Susie-Q is now part of the trains I run at National Capital Trackers shows.  Mine is an Atlas model.

I visited my cousin at his work place, the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station.  He spent his entire long career there monitoring its shutdown.  I don't think there are any rail cars the have RSNGS on them, but that would be fun.

@rpmcobra posted:

Pat did you buy into the pre-orders Atlas Natty Boh Reffer's  🙂

I pre ordered one Natty Bo reffer from Mr. Muffin.  Looking forward to receiving it, whenever that time comes.

Some news print boxcars

Santa Fe Route of the Chief, with load.

Lionel Standard O Boxcar.  Doctored up a little, of course. 

Happy Box Car Sunday everyone...well like usual, i have something a little bit off of theme.  How about a refrigerator car instead of a box car?  This one from Union Pacific - Overland Route is by Hafner.  Its part of his "streamlined" series of freights, always 4 wheel and pulled by a clockwork loco.  In the case of this guy  a black and silver Hafner 1010 loco made sometime between 1938 and 1951 when Hafner was acquired by Wyandotte toys.  Mr. Hafner who was one of the original founders of the American Flyer Company left their in 1914.  He never made electric trains only clockwork, believing electric trains were too expensive to be toys.  He died in the 1920's but his son lead the company until its end in the early 50's.

Anyway here is his Overland Refrigerator Car

Happy BC Sunday everyone!

Don

Always interesting Sunday posts on BC Sunday!

I don't think Ralphie has made the thread yet, Let's fast forward to what we hope will be a "normal" time...the Christmas season and think of mulled wine and egg nog:

CAPPilot, I like the Susquehanna Box cars, but not for the years of service, but for the name, Suzie Q, my wife’s name is actually Sueann, but I call her Suzie Q for fun. I like Lionels sound box cars and these are recent purchases. Box car sunday is a popular thread, so here’s some of my favorites. Hope everyone has had a great weekend. Happy Railroading 

RF&P ( Richmond Fredricksburg and Potomac ) boxcar unloading at brewery.  

MTH all door boxcars for lumber

Great start Bill

Here's an oldie but goodie never been run

In another topic the UP BX-50-25 express boxcar was brought up as something Lionel should make. I have the Weaver version so I thought I would show it for today’s Boxcar Sunday.

100 of these 41’ boxcars were built between 1939 and 1941, painted solid gray, and were originally classified as B-50-25.  In 1946 these cars received the two-tone gray paint scheme seen here and changed to class BX-50-25.  The two-tone scheme lasted until 1952 so this Weaver car fits perfectly into the late 40’s era of my layout.

This is not a tall car, similar to the Pennsy’s X-29 boxcar.  Because of its low height it looks longer than 41’.   Maybe someday I can find the correct Symington-Gould High Speed Trucks for it.

Some red, white, and blue for the 4th!

Good morning everyone, it is sunny and HOT / HUMID ! here in coastal Ga.  Bill T- great start and a very handsome car not commonly seen on model RR.  Justhavnfun and CAPPilot great cars, I love the older 40 ' cars as that is about all my short radius lay out can handle.  For today, I have two pictures.  One on theme and one just for fun.

To start on theme, here is a Marx "deluxe" box car from the Rock Island.  It is of the classic 40' size and has sliding doors and 8-wheel trucks hence the deluxe term. Made between '52-'59. Pulled by the Rock Island, # 799 GE 70-ton Switcher also made by Marx between '59-'65

Now just for fun.  Blanco the Cat, assistant chief engineer on the Leonardtown and Savannah,heard we were going to discuss "Box" cars and felt he had to get in on the action.  He used his discretionary budget to acquire a box car of his own to show management his special technical abilities (like getting in the box)  !

Happy BCSun everyone

Don

Here's Lionel's Baby Ruth cars from Prewar Tinplate to vintage O27 to new O Gauge, plus a custom caboose.

I got this nice WM 50 ' from an on line auction that had 4 MTH Premier items in one lot. I was bidding on 1 caboose which I won and was really surprised at how nice all 4 items were. I was going to turn around the other 3 items but decided to keep all.

My first, a Lionel ATSF operating boxcar:

Arnold i have that one, recent purchase though

Boston & Maine

Whoops-make that Bangor & Aroostook...

Don Winslow, Wow, we all have Senior moments, you are excused, beautiful red,white, and blue car.... RSJB18 has one to, I just posted one last sunday, they are Beautiful.  Arnold D., beautiful older car, it’s an action car, a great car that brings back fond memories of Yesteryear, and Jushavnfun also knows that’s a fun to run car. Wow, I think I’ve found a true collectors car, MTH, I joined the club years ago... Also you will see a picture of a hand crafted O Scale Circus car belonging to a friend of mine, and a favorite of mine, a Burlington Route refrigerator box car. Don McErlean, great nostalgic box cars, a Beautiful cat... I know it’s hot in Georgia, it’s hot here in middle Tennessee. Johan, your a master at rolling stock weathering, awesome job.... Everyone, stay safe, stay healthy, Pray Continually. Happy Railroading 

Menards boxcars

Here's a few of my favorites...

Some recent weathering project which I have begun but not finished.

Happy BCSun everyone...great pictures for today.  Thanks to everyone for posting.  Today I have some pictures of a real veteran. This guy is over 100 years old, standard gauge, and represents what the hobby was like at the beginning of the 20th century.  It is a Lionel #114 box car, introduced in 1912 as part of the so called "series 100" freights.  Remember in those days 0 gauge didn't even exist and standard only replaced 2 7/8 " gauge in 1906. As you will see in the pictures this fellow  is embossed "LIONEL MFG CO" on its underside which means it pre-dates the change to Lionel Corp in 1918,  So this guy was manufactured some time between 1912 -1917.  It is currently red but I think this is some young man's home paint job (or his Dad's) because they wanted a "red" boxcar.  The underside shows it was originally an yellow-orange body and likely rubber stamped in black "CM & ST P 54087" on the sides, although that is long gone.  So here is this "old man"

Here is the side view, sliding doors via a second piece of sheet metal on the inside with a door hole in it.

Late 100 series trucks, originally had 2 brake wheels but none at this time. 

Underside, showing original coloring and the embossing "LIONEL MFG. CO N.Y." which dates the car to 1917 or earlier.

Well happy box car Sunday everyone.

Don

Here is another Weaver 40' boxcar I bought thinking is was based on a real car.  K-line did a similar 40' boxcar.

After searching for this car a couple of times, I have accepted the fact it did not exist.  I did find a similar Reading "Share in Freedom" with eagle scheme on a 50' boxcar, but those cars were more brown than the very green on the Weaver car.  I also learned that the eagle was put on only four of the 50' "Share in Freedom" boxcars, numbers 19805-19808, so the number on the Weaver car is correct.  As far as I can find, the eagle on these four boxcars would give them the only real* Bicentennial paint scheme of the Reading.

*There are cabooses in this paint scheme, but could not find a photo of a prototype for those either.