Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@Krieglok posted:

How about State Penn…

Tom

That is a Walthers(?) HO, is it not? If it were O, I would have one!

Two cars that I have had for a while; one from ebay and one from a train show:

@PRRMP54 posted:

That is a Walthers(?) HO, is it not? If it were O, I would have one!

Dave,

I believe it was in Walthers HO scale “tongue in cheek “ series of cars. They didn’t make them in O scale, unfortunately.

Tom

For this week I'll show an Atlas O 50-foot Denver & Rio Grande being pulled by a Williams FM.

Catching up from last week!

A few painted and decaled by me…MTH and Weaver…

And a factory painted reefer I weathered…Weaver…

Tom

Special boxcar made by RMT for RR Police Group as a fundraiser for member support programs. They still have a few left. You can order from the PBA local...

PBA #323 at...           pba323@outlook.com

They only have a few left.

I picked up this one at a recent Stout auction. It was part of a lot of 3 cars plus a loco, tender, and caboose (6 total). I bought the lot really cheap mainly for the 2046 tender to be possibly used for parts. I began cleaning them and I believe none of these cars have ever been run (I’ve bought a lot of cars from Stout and the bay to be able to tell the difference).  The lots were from a big time collector who apparently didn’t run them much, if at all. It’s a Lionel 6464. I’ll be posting the other cars on the ‘buy anything cool’ thread.

A fifty car freight train pulled effortlessly by my Legacy PRR M1b…

@Craignor posted:

That’s a lot of boxcars & a great video. I also enjoyed the sound.

Some operating Boxcars have a great Sunday, Support your Troops!

Maine Central #35099.

Southern Pacific Over Time

In the pre-war period only American Flyer offered a boxcar with SP Graphics

American Flyer

While the color scheme of the boxcar was the expected toy train fanciful, the graphics did a good job of mirroring the markings one would have seen on a real SP car of the period as illustrated with this Atlas scale model.

Atlas

In the immediate post-war period Lionel offered an SP boxcar in its 6454 car line - the precursor to the well known 6464 series.

Lionel

  From the collector's standpoint Lionel offered 3 versions of the 6454 car - tuscan colored with a small SP herald, the same color but with a larger herald with thinner line graphics and a break in the outer edge, and a maroon colored car with the smaller herald.

Small Herald Detail

Large Herald Detail

With the advent of the 6464 series Lionel decided to go with something more colorful for SP and used the Overnight graphics.

Lionel

The really colorful SP cars in red, gray and white with big SP letters had to wait until the MPC period.

Hello BxCrSun fans, great pictures all.  @Dave Ripp.- neat 50 ' DRG and colorful as well @Krieglok - Great cars as always but really liked the "West India Fruit & Steamship Co" refer @RMT - Ready Made Trains- cool police support boxcar @texgeekboy - good looking MSL 6464, classic Lionel @Craignor- OK a 50 car train...if I put 50 cars behind any locomotive on my layout they would need to go around a second time!  What a feat!! @Sitka - neat string of operating cars @BAR GP7 #63- good looking MEC car @Robert S. Butler - Thanks for the display of SP cars.  I have the Lionel 6454 ones but not the prewar AF or the 6464 it was great to see them.

Well today, I guess I have a bit of foolishness to display, but I enjoy the fun of cars like this...its a Lionel #16629 "Animal Car" complete with Elephant from 1990 -1991. Its part of the Lionel Circus Set from the same year.  I always thought of it as a sort of follow on to the Giraffe cars only with an Elephant instead of a Giraffe.

Well that's it for me this Sunday morning.  Best wishes to everyone.  Hope you have a happy Holiday and upcoming week

Don

@Dave Ripp. posted:

For this week I'll show an Atlas O 50-foot Denver & Rio Grande being pulled by a Williams FM.

These photo ought to make anyone want to model the Rio Grande. 

Nice Dave.

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello BxCrSun fans, great pictures all.  @Dave Ripp.- neat 50 ' DRG and colorful as well @Krieglok - Great cars as always but really liked the "West India Fruit & Steamship Co" refer @RMT - Ready Made Trains- cool police support boxcar @texgeekboy - good looking MSL 6464, classic Lionel @Craignor- OK a 50 car train...if I put 50 cars behind any locomotive on my layout they would need to go around a second time!  What a feat!! @Sitka - neat string of operating cars @BAR GP7 #63- good looking MEC car @Robert S. Butler - Thanks for the display of SP cars.  I have the Lionel 6454 ones but not the prewar AF or the 6464 it was great to see them.

Well today, I guess I have a bit of foolishness to display, but I enjoy the fun of cars like this...its a Lionel #16629 "Animal Car" complete with Elephant from 1990 -1991. Its part of the Lionel Circus Set from the same year.  I always thought of it as a sort of follow on to the Giraffe cars only with an Elephant instead of a Giraffe.

Well that's it for me this Sunday morning.  Best wishes to everyone.  Hope you have a happy Holiday and upcoming week

Don

Definitely a compliment to the grraffe car Don.  Nice.

Now we need to see a TIGER car .

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Maine Central #35099.

Good to see one of your unique offerings Johan.  Very interesting boxcar sir.

@Sitka posted:

Some operating Boxcars have a great Sunday, Support your Troops!

Still great lighting in your photos Sitka.

Do you have a video of those boxcars operzting ?

@Dallas Joseph - Thanks for the compliment on my Animal Car...not prototypical but fun anyway!

Best Regards

Don

@Craignor posted:

A fifty car freight train pulled effortlessly by my Legacy PRR M1b…

Nice Craig.   Kind of hard for me to count the cars with the speed they were flying by at.

Unexpectedly, I have enjoyed this particular thread for weeks. It has made me realize that I am addicted to the variety of colorful rolling stock with such an array of logos.

Here are two: like mother:like daughter (or like father:like son):

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Still great lighting in your photos Sitka.

Do you have a video of those boxcars operzting ?

Have to work on the video for you Dallas,

Gentlemen, now this thread has come alive, @Craignor, Wow, I watched your cool video and Yes Sir, the 50 car train ran superbly on your really nice layout. Thank you for the video. @Don McErlean, yes, you always come up with a surprisingly interesting box car, the elephant in the room, wow, nice car, @Golden Prairie Railroad, Professor Ed, I read your profile and I see you were a college professor, congratulations, and thank you for your colorful contributions to this fun to review thread, @Coach Joe made a comment on the car I’m posting today, Aloha Shake, made by Atlas O, I liked the color, and two other of my favorites. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello BxCrSun fans, great pictures all.  @Dave Ripp.- neat 50 ' DRG and colorful as well @Krieglok - Great cars as always but really liked the "West India Fruit & Steamship Co" refer @RMT - Ready Made Trains- cool police support boxcar @texgeekboy - good looking MSL 6464, classic Lionel @Craignor- OK a 50 car train...if I put 50 cars behind any locomotive on my layout they would need to go around a second time!  What a feat!! @Sitka - neat string of operating cars @BAR GP7 #63- good looking MEC car @Robert S. Butler - Thanks for the display of SP cars.  I have the Lionel 6454 ones but not the prewar AF or the 6464 it was great to see them.

Thanks Don.

Everyone has some great offerings this week.

The West India car was a nice car, but just a bit plain. The weathering helped make it pop a bit more. I don’t weather cars too often, but I enjoyed fixing this one up a bit…

Tom

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Good to see one of your unique offerings Johan.  Very interesting boxcar sir.

Dallas. Thank you. I just received a shipment from Maine and it also included this great CMP Maine Central box car.

Johan

@leapinlarry - "Aloha Shake" - sounds like a Hawaii desert drink...never heard of that company before and I see its from "Aloha Washington" really neat car Larry.   In regard to the Aloha company (Aloha Shake and Mill ) the term "shake" refers to a wooden shingle that was used on the roofs / sides of buildings.  They also made solid cedar surfboards.  The company had its own railroad until 1940 into local timberland and was dissolved in 2003.  Neat color scheme and logo however and a really cool car!.

Best Wishes

Don

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice Craig.   Kind of hard for me to count the cars with the speed they were flying by at.

Yeah, I had had to run them faster than I wanted to be able to post it here, however I did put it in YouTube later and am running slower…

Part of a Nabisco set. I have 4, hope to find the others, (how many?), next week...

Here's my custom painted PRR boxcars, they're pulled by triple-headed A-5's.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Here's my custom painted PRR boxcars, they're pulled by triple-headed A-5's.

GRJ: Should not the second two be smoking also

@RJT posted:

GRJ: Should not the second two be smoking also

It was, just running out of fluid there.  Only the first one has fan driven smoke, so it obviously smokes much better than the other two.

It is a "big brother watching you" world out there. I had fun doing a second Spy/X-Files decorative scheme.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Here's my custom painted PRR boxcars, they're pulled by triple-headed A-5's.

John,

Nice string of boxcars.  Based on the headlight style/location on the first two A5s, they must be K-Line/Lionel.  Who made the third one?  It looks like an MTH.  If it is, you got them running well together.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

It was, just running out of fluid there.  Only the first one has fan driven smoke, so it obviously smokes much better than the other two.

Nice video John, layouts also looking great.

@CAPPilot posted:

Nice string of boxcars.  Based on the headlight style/location on the first two A5s, they must be K-Line/Lionel.  Who made the third one?  It looks like an MTH.  If it is, you got them running well together.

They're all K-Line, just from different years.  The last one, #411, is from Lionel's 2009 catalog.  The lead was a conventional, so I gave it the works, fan driven smoke, ERR cruise and sound, etc.  The other two were TMCC models, and I just added the CC-M to those.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Nice video John, layouts also looking great.

Thanks, trying to get more time to work on it and start adding scenery.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

They're all K-Line, just from different years. 

Thank you.  I did not know the headlamp was modernized on later models.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Here's my custom painted PRR boxcars, they're pulled by triple-headed A-5's.

John, what a great looking train! Those custom painted PRR box cars are awesome and the A-5's look and sound great pulling them. Fun video!

@Golden Prairie Railroad posted:

Unexpectedly, I have enjoyed this particular thread for weeks. It has made me realize that I am addicted to the variety of colorful rolling stock with such an array of logos.

Here are two: like mother:like daughter (or like father:like son):

Dad (Mom) is taking a trip back in time...

From an Intermountain kit.  John

For this week I'll show an Atlas O 50-foot Santa Fe pulled by a Williams FM.

OMG, my boxcars have taken a terrible beating. They are black and blue all over:

Black and blue in the gorgeous Boston & Maine livery, that is!