About 15 years ago I bought some antique boxcars with metal sides, roof and doors. The chassis or floor are wood with wooden bolsters and sprung trucks.

Here is one of them.

Perhaps someone knows who manufactured this series of boxcars.

Three hard to find Lionel boxcars from the 40's....

35 years ago, I took the hard way to a Piled High and Deep. Here's the easy ride:

@Golden Prairie Railroad posted:

35 years ago, I took the hard way to a Piled High and Deep. Here's the easy ride:

Ed,

Loved the PHD remark. My sister in law is a French PHD and I'll remember to use that.

My wife and I have only low brow Masters.

Ron H

@Golden Prairie Railroad posted:

35 years ago, I took the hard way to a Piled High and Deep. Here's the easy ride:

Love that boxcar! Got an extra one you could spare? I went the "hard way" 28 years ago at PSU but did get to fall in love with the Pennsylvania countryside by bicycle in the process. I remember the education progression as BS= b---s---, MS= more of the same, PhD=piled higher and deeper.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Can anyone ID this boxcar?

After a search I was able to confirm on Worth Point that this is a Weaver 50-foot boxcar.

Here we have a Weaver Northern Pacific 50' Boxcar #97697 - 3 Rail. It features plastic construction, metal wheels and axles, plastic trucks & has knuckle couplers. This item has been graded per TCA standards C 9: Factory New. Overall condition is Factory New. Manufacturer: Weaver. Scale/Era: O Modern. Model Type: Freight Cars. Availability: Ships within 1 Business Day! Add Seller to Favorites eBay Store About us FAQ Add Seller to Favorites eBay Store About Trainz FAQ Weaver Northern Pacific 50' Boxcar #97697 [3Rail] NIB Description Payment Shipping Returns Description Here we have a Weaver Northern Pacific 50' Boxcar #97697 - 3 Rail. It features plastic construction, metal wheels and axles, plastic trucks & has knuckle couplers.

I also found this car numbered 97673. A nice-looking car in this boxcar fan's opinion.

Thanks for posting.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

I like the Herbie Bill. I have them in several railroads by different manufactures.

Bill here is a diecast figure I call Herbie the hobo that I picked up at a train show.

Dave Ripp writes:

“After a search I was able to confirm on Worth Point that this is a Weaver 50-foot boxcar.”

Thanks for this, Dave. You are spot on, and there is the same car, diff. RN, currently for sale on a forum sponsor’s web site.

Dave Ripp:

Your Herbie is riding in a gorgeous blue car (I'm a sucker for blue).  What make car is that L&N car?

@Golden Prairie Railroad posted:

Dave Ripp:

Your Herbie is riding in a gorgeous blue car (I'm a sucker for blue).  What make car is that L&N car?

Thanks Ed, That's an Atlas O Scale 50-footer. When I saw it, I had to add it to my collection.

I had to buy one of those pretty blue L&N cars.  It's all your fault, Ripp!

B&O and other mid-Atlantic box cars hauled by a K Line Chessie System diesel (GP38?) that has run smooth as silk and flawlessly for 20+ years:

That K Line locomotive is one of my best quiet runners, perfect for when the wife is asleep. Arnold

This video provides a close up of B&O, Chessie System, etc. boxcars being pulled by an MTH PS3 Maryland Midland diesel:

Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This video provides a close up of B&O, Chessie System, etc. boxcars being pulled by an MTH PS3 Maryland Midland diesel:

Arnold

Arnold, you disproved my theory good from far but far from good. Very nice both ways. Nice sounding diesel too.

Happy Boxcar Sunday. For this week I'm going with a new Lionel 50-foot boxcar. Like last week it is a Louisville & Nashville Railroad unit. I liked the colors on this and finally found one at a good price. Last week's Atlas O version was the blue and yellow single door this week a grey and yellow double door. Let's see what you have this week real train picture are also welcome as long as there yours to use.

Happy Box Car Sunday. Maine Central #1.

Agreement

  Sometimes the prototype was so colorful/interesting that there was little for the toy maker to do except copy it.

   Case in point - the American Refrigerator Transit Co. car

The toy courtesy of American Flyer ca 1925 and the model of the prototype courtesy of Atlas.

One aspect of the toy version which I found odd was the placement of the car number on the left side without any other text.  It was only when I finally saw the Atlas model I realized American Flyer was just being true to prototype.

Rutland on the dock.

Bob

Here's my boxcars for this fine Sunday!   Both are by Weaver.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Box Car Sunday. Maine Central #1.

@BAR GP7 #63

That is one correctly detailed/weathered boxcar and of course it's the Main Central.  I went up there last week and saw a string of Maine Central Boxcars.  You got it right on.

@Wood posted:

@BAR GP7 #63

That is one correctly detailed/weathered boxcar and of course it's the Main Central.  I went up there last week and saw a string of Maine Central Boxcars.  You got it right on.

Wood.

Thank you. I discovered the MEC car years ago and went as far as to order three Bangor & Aroostook versions before Weaver Trains went out of business.

Johan

Well hello BxCrSun fans...great photo's and videos from all... Arnold both Chessie and Md Midland, you have Md locked up this morning, great videos.  That Midland loco makes some great sounds.  Dave that's two very colorful L&N liveries you have, they look great.  Wish I could run 50 footers but my radii and clearances are too tight.  Patrick, BAR GP7 #63, RSJB18 great scenes and really neat photos.  Robert J. Butler - great comparison with prototype and 1925 toy train interpretation.  Thanks for posting.

Today I have a new acquisition, thanks to a train show on Saturday.  I have been assembling some Southern RR rolling stock to use along with my new SRR U36b diesel and I found two additions at the show.  The SRR boxcar I am showing here and a really neat woodside caboose I will likely post for T.E.T.  So here is the new box car.  Its a Lionel #9700 from the early days of MPC .  MPC made 3 basic series of boxcars the 9200 series that began in 1970 and were produced until 1972,  Then came the 9700 series, beginning with the SRR  car I am showing here which ran from 1972-1978.  Finally the 9400 series which began in 1978 and ran through the end of MPC.

The very first car in the 9700 series was the SRR boxcar #9700 (obviously) and the interesting thing is that some cars have a green dot in "Southern" to support the slogan, "Southern gives a green light to innovations" .  Some cars have the dot some don't.  In fact the dot was a dealer installed sticker supplied to dealers by Lionel.

No green dot on this one!

Well here's hoping everyone has a great week.  Best Wishes

Don

My only contribution this week… A Weaver factory paint job I clear coated with flat clear. The car had an extremely warped floor and frame. It still needs a little straightening…

Three cars in the paint shop. I will have them ready for next week…

Tom

@RSJB18 posted:

Rutland on the dock.

Bob

Love the green and gold of the Rutland boxcar. I have one too. Mine is the 3rd to last boxcar in this train:

@Bill Swatos posted:

Love that boxcar! Got an extra one you could spare? I went the "hard way" 28 years ago at PSU but did get to fall in love with the Pennsylvania countryside by bicycle in the process. I remember the education progression as BS= b---s---, MS= more of the same, PhD=piled higher and deeper.

Hi Bill,

My wife and I have our MS from PSU and agree it is More of the Same. Son #1 has his PhD from Pitt (you try to bring them up right but.....); son #2 just got his MS from PSU in August. My mother started at PSU in 1941 but the war got in the way and she never finished. My father-in-law got his MS at PSU after the war. I guess we're a PSU family.

WE ARE...

Bob

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Love the green and gold of the Rutland boxcar. I have one too. Mine is the 3rd to last boxcar in this train:

Now I need a B&M S2......🤣🤣

Thanks Arnold

@bobfett posted:

Hi Bill,

My wife and I have our MS from PSU and agree it is More of the Same. Son #1 has his PhD from Pitt (you try to bring them up right but.....); son #2 just got his MS from PSU in August. My mother started at PSU in 1941 but the war got in the way and she never finished. My father-in-law got his MS at PSU after the war. I guess we're a PSU family.

WE ARE...

Bob

PENN STATE!

I need this boxcar, too!

@bobfett posted:

Hi Bill,

My wife and I have our MS from PSU and agree it is More of the Same. Son #1 has his PhD from Pitt (you try to bring them up right but.....); son #2 just got his MS from PSU in August. My mother started at PSU in 1941 but the war got in the way and she never finished. My father-in-law got his MS at PSU after the war. I guess we're a PSU family.

WE ARE...

Bob

ROARRRRRRRR!

How about State Penn…

Tom

@RSJB18 posted:

Now I need a B&M S2......🤣🤣

Thanks Arnold

Switcheritis is contagious. LOL.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Switcheritis is contagious. LOL.

Extreeeeeemly !

Wow, what a beautiful variety of box cars this beautiful fall Sunday, and so many creative designs. I’m with @Dave Ripp, the L&N cars are awesome. So, here’s some more of similar L&N cars. Happy Railroading Everyone

Tom,

  Funny you should bring up State Penn.  There is a state pen not that far from Penn State and way back when the local stores sold sweatshirts with State Penn on them with the same type font as was then offered on Penn State sweatshirts.  It was quite common to see visitors who had purchased these shirts and it was also quite common to hear their disgusted comments to no one in particular when they discovered their sweatshirt didn't say what they thought it said.

@Robert S. Butler posted:

Tom,

  Funny you should bring up State Penn.  There is a state pen not that far from Penn State and way back when the local stores sold sweatshirts with State Penn on them with the same type font as was then offered on Penn State sweatshirts.  It was quite common to see visitors who had purchased these shirts and it was also quite common to hear their disgusted comments to no one in particular when they discovered their sweatshirt didn't say what they thought it said.

Ah, Robert, you're talking about Rockview. Rumour had it that anytime the lights flickered at Penn State they were testing the electric chair at Rockview.

Bob

@Bill Swatos posted:

PENN STATE!

I need this boxcar, too!

If memory serves me correctly, it's a Weaver boxcar redecorated by Colors Bright Toys in Watsontown, PA. I bought it at York many years ago.

I love your Nittany Lion Shrine motorized unit. Is it home-made?

Bob

@Robert S. Butler posted:

Tom,

  Funny you should bring up State Penn.  There is a state pen not that far from Penn State and way back when the local stores sold sweatshirts with State Penn on them with the same type font as was then offered on Penn State sweatshirts.  It was quite common to see visitors who had purchased these shirts and it was also quite common to hear their disgusted comments to no one in particular when they discovered their sweatshirt didn't say what they thought it said.

That's Rockview, a few miles northeast of State College. I knew a guard who worked there.

@bobfett posted:

If memory serves me correctly, it's a Weaver boxcar redecorated by Colors Bright Toys in Watsontown, PA. I bought it at York many years ago.

I love your Nittany Lion Shrine motorized unit. Is it home-made?

Bob

Sorry, Bob! It's just a "spur of the moment" placement of my Nittany Lion Shrine replica on top of my Centerline track cleaner, though a motorized unit would be a good idea! I'll get to work on that...

Ripplinger, knock it off!  "...a new Lionel 50-foot boxcar...a Louisville & Nashville Railroad unit...I liked the colors on this and finally found one at a good price." Now I will have to find the only one left---at a bad price.  Apart from a few in Armor Yellow, there's too little yellow on the GPRR, and that L&N car is beeuuutifull!

In fact, this thread shows some wonderfully colorful rolling stock.  I may have to go into some kind of rehab program.

@Golden Prairie Railroad posted:

Rippinger, knock it off!  "...a new Lionel 50-foot boxcar...a Louisville & Nashville Railroad unit...I liked the colors on this and finally found one at a good price." Now I will have to find the only one left---at a bad price.  Apart from a few in Armor Yellow, there's too little yellow on the GPRR, and that L&N car is beautiful!

In fact, this thread shows some wonderfully colorful rolling stock.  I may have to go into some kind of rehab program.

Larry had the same 2 and added a 40-footer that I think is an Atlas O. It does look great next to the blue one.

@Dave Ripp, yes the L&N box cars are nice, my pictures above are showing the blue car is Atlas O, the other two cars are Lionel.  Thank you all for the likes. The cars pictured are MTH REA cars.  Happy Railroading Everyone