Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Here thar be boxcars...

Rusty

          #1454..............

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   nmp's...

newest addition to the fleet...

Gentlemen,

  The new 2017 Lionel Christmas Box Car and the old Dashing Turtle Box Car.

PCRR/Dave

The old Dashing Turtle Box Car from Turtle Creek, Pa

Here is a static shot of a couple of MTH boxcars in the PRR Merchandise Service Phase I scheme.  While these cars are MTH's ubiquitous AAR 40' and PS-1 50' cars and not Pennsy's X29b and X41b cars, there are very close to the correct paint scheme.  The Phase 1 scheme was applied from Aug 1947 to Jan 1950.

Here's a freshly weathered Santa Fe boxcar.

A couple of box cars from my Flyer days in the 70's.

A string of Pennsy X26 boxcars in the classification yard.  The X26 was a WWI USRA design, and the Pennsy had almost 10,000 of these boxcars.  Many were rebuilt into all steel cars after WWII.

This is an AtlasO car.

 Waffles............

This is a great thread, I'll add a couple of pictures of new G box cars from AML..........SWEET.

Gentlemen,

   Tin Plate Box Cars, ya got to love em!

PCRR/Dave

Love the MA & PA

        Keeping it cold, arriving on T3 later................

                                                                   Miller Time!

SIRT posted:

        Keeping it cold, arriving on T3 later................

                                                                   Miller Time!

Sirt,

Is most of your weathering done with an air brush?

Karl

Karl Reichenbach posted:

SIRT posted:

        Keeping it cold, arriving on T3 later................

 

 

                                                                   Miller Time!

Sirt,

Is most of your weathering done with an air brush?

Karl

Hi Karl -

I never had time for an air brush or hard to get paints that dry up. I was never successful at getting the look using one either. Some people think dusting with an air brush is called weathering but it's far from it.

For better results, control and items done in minutes. I use spray cans, hand decorate items using hobby acrylics and Bragdon's powders, coated with clear lacquer sprays.

Thanks.

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This was in a pile of my dad's photo's, a bunch of GI's passing time. Not sure where this is but he was in Europe during WWII. Not a good photo to begin with, I like the states listed on the boxcar.

Boxcars for Sunday.  " Western Maryland Railway Boxcars "

The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern is (was) a local road for me, so here are the two cars I run in tribute thereto; the Kris 1977 TTOS car, and the Lionel 9422. The EJ&E is gone but not forgotten.

Over the past few years members of the National Capital Trackers have run trains for the elementary grade kids at the Eagle Academy PCS in DC.  The trains I run at these events are not the ones I run on my home layout.  The trains I use are less fragile and more colorful and fun.  Here are a couple of my boxcars.

On this Lionel, several of the starts and the eagles eye lights up.

This MTH car has a light in the torch Miss M&M is holding up.

I bought an airbrush and finally tried my hand at the undecorated boxcars I have so far I have done 2 here's the results.

Here's another oldie-but-a-goodie...part of 1666's train...which actually made it out of my childhood alive...

FrankM,  as a boy, with the 1666 train.

trumptrain posted:

Boxcars for Sunday.  " Western Maryland Railway Boxcars "

Beautiful video

Glory to the Common Man

Glory to Trains, Boxcars and Baseball

Glory to Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Glory to the Common Man

Glory to Trains, Boxcars and Baseball

Glory to Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man:

 

Hey Arnold!  Great choice of music!!!  I've performed Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man many times.  Very nice to see your trains running to this great piece of music!!!  Thanks!!!!

Boxcars for this Sunday.  Frames 1-3 " Packard Show stopper!" Frames 4 -5 " The Christmas Tree Shipment " Frames 6 & 7 " REA Busy Season " Frame 8 " The End"

Menards boxcar by Lionel.

   Bill