Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

Excellent reply from @CAPPilot .  Thank you.

I am guilty of being too brief in my captioning since I am not good enough a modeler to upload a "how to" post.  It should be mentioned that the REX cars I am creating are strictly freelance.  I am using reference photos for decal placement, but the car types and car numbers are not exact. 

Rob, thank you.  Due to the limited number of types of cars in O, I worry less about the car type than the correct paint scheme.  It needs to look right.

Your work is great.

Here is a Lionel Swift Refrigerator Lines. Somehow, I have 2 of this one so one will hit the for sale or trade soon.

Have a good start of the week with some double door boxcars, God Speed! Keep those rail shinning!

Marx box cars delivering "Fresh Milk".

Here are a few of mine, and they’re looking for adoption!

I have a few paint projects going, just not done in time for today’s thread.

But, I have modified two MTH factory painted cars. Both original liveries from MTH. I added details and weathered them with Vallejo paint washes…

The Great Northern logo is a bit too modern for a late 1800’s to early 1900’s boxcar. This logo was introduced in 1922…

Tom

While most, if not all, as-built double-sheathed boxcars were no longer in revenue service by my layout's era, I do have two DS cars that I have picked up over the years.  I initially thought I would repaint them into the PRR gray MoW scheme, but it turns out the Pennsy never owned any DS cars.  So, while I am not sure what I will do with these two cars I did do some research on them.

The Santa Fe car has a build date on 8-1919, making it one of the last original USRA DS cars produced during/after WW1.  The SF had one of the largest fleets of DS cars and with many still in SF's MoW service into the late 40s.  This car had wood framing between the inside and outside wood sheathing, and was probably rebuilt with steel framing later in life.

The SSW is not on the list of roads that received some of the initial WW1 era cars.  The build date on this car of 3-1924 indicates this was a post-WW1 build, or what is referred to as "USRA clones".  Most of these clones, starting around this time, had steel framing in place of the wood framing of the WW1 cars.  I do not know if the SSW ever owned one or if this is a fantasy car.

Both DS boxcars are Lionel.

Lionel 50 ft. double door WISCONSIN CENTRAL with load.

Make it a great week all.

Guys ... this topic is about BOXCARS!  Don't post pictures that are off topic.  Post those over on the video/pictures forum.

Here is a Frisco boxcar made by Weaver. It only has 6-foot doors and is 1 foot shorter than my PS1s. Perhaps this was standard in steam era boxcars it does have an older built date. Feel free to send some knowledge my way if you know.

Boston & Maine #73199 is a 40-foot steel box car by MTH (20-93073) with MSRP $39.95. Data on the car side says it was built in March 1942.

MELGAR

This MTH Western Electric voltage boxcar is a great reminder of my father who worked at Western Electric Hawthorne works in Cicero, Il for thirty five years. He manufactured capacitors for them.

My offerings for this week…Boxcars!

These two are painted by me…MTH cars

These cars are MTH factory paint schemes. I added details, but have yet to weather them…

Tom

IMO, Atlas boxcars/reefers with their extraordinary detail are the best that money can buy.

Growing up in Mt. Vernon, NY, my mother often did grocery shopping at the Grand Union, and my father had 1 bottle of Ballantine Beer every night with dinner. And, the Ballantine Beer commercials with their catchy jingle were a mainstay during Yankee games on television and the radio:

Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

IMO, Atlas boxcars/reefers with their extraordinary detail are the best that money can buy.

Growing up in Mt. Vernon, NY, my mother often did grocery shopping at the Grand Union, and my father had 1 bottle of Ballantine Beer every night with dinner. And, the Ballantine Beer commercials with their catchy jingle were a mainstay during Yankee games on television and the radio:

Arnold

Arnold, Nice cars and great memories. This is a part of the forum I really enjoy.

Hope all is having a fun Boxcar Sunday God Speed to all! Lionel PW 6454 49-52, Lionel 3484 1953 op. Boxcar, and a repaint former C.P. 6-9228 1986.

@Sitka posted:

Hope all is having a fun Boxcar Sunday God Speed to all! Lionel PW 6454 49-52, Lionel 3484 1953 op. Boxcar, and a repaint former C.P. 6-9228 1986.

Love the whole scene, thanks for posting.

                                                                 Testing, 1,2,3,...

@SIRT posted:

                                                                 Testing, 1,2,3,...

Nice, Is this on the new layout?

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Nice, Is this on the new layout?

Yes, scene one in progress...

See W.D.Y.D.O.Y.L.t. post

Boy, I sure miss K-Line.  Here is one from my Red/White/Blue fleet.

@SIRTSIRT, wow, yiur scenes are so realistic, your weathering technics so great, thanks for the pictures, I like the 44 toner pulling the PennCentral boxcar…. @CAPPilot, beautiful box car, and I miss K-Line products too…. Happy Railroading Everyone

@franktrain posted:

This MTH Western Electric voltage boxcar is a great reminder of my father who worked at Western Electric Hawthorne works in Cicero, Il for thirty five years. He manufactured capacitors for them.

Nice . Definitely never saw one of these before Frank.

Does the voltage meter actually function ?

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice . Definitely never saw one of these before Frank.

Does the voltage meter actually function ?

Dallas,  Actualy Kline made these first years ago.

Since I spent 25-year with Duke Power and an industry support the power industry had to have Klines Reddy Kilowatt version.

And it actually was very useful looking for "dead' spots on layouts!

Ron

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice . Definitely never saw one of these before Frank.

Does the voltage meter actually function ?

Yes the volt meter does work. I think there are several versions of the boxcar with meter.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Here is a Frisco boxcar made by Weaver. It only has 6-foot doors and is 1 foot shorter than my PS1s. Perhaps this was standard in steam era boxcars it does have an older built date. Feel free to send some knowledge my way if you know.

I recall that in the early 60's the railroad would set out a string of cars at Dad's grain elevator to load and every once in a while there would be one of these old 80,000 cap cars in the lineup. We would refuse it and push it on by. Wood grain doors were a pain to nail up and paper ones wouldn't fit at all. If a guy could get the doors sealed for grain loading, trying to maneuver the chute through the top of the door opening wasn't worth the effort. Eventually they disappeared from the railroad, much to everyone's relief.

@franktrain posted:

Yes the volt meter does work. I think there are several versions of the boxcar with meter.

MTH makes a bunch of them and calls them "power cars." There are several Christmas-themed ones, a Glen Canyon Dam-themed one and others. A backlighted voltmeter is on each side of the car. Unfortunately the voltmeters are cemented in AND sealed, so even if you have an errant meter and get it out of the car, you can't "zero" it. Consequently, I'm stuck with the -1 volt offset my MTH "North Pole" version has on one side. As Ron mentions above, it is still useful for finding "dead spots" in your track as well as diagnosing "partial shorts" in locomotives, particularly older Magnetraction locos that have been around steel wool (Eeek!).

@franktrain posted:

This MTH Western Electric voltage boxcar is a great reminder of my father who worked at Western Electric Hawthorne works in Cicero, Il for thirty five years. He manufactured capacitors for them.

OK, I can't help it. Here's an all-original Model 500 C/D Western Electric phone from 3/1955 that your Dad probably made capacitors for. I got it at a Steam and Tractor show just outside of Centre Hall, PA. And, just like our old trains, it still works:

I seem to remember my aunt worked her first secretarial job at that same facility before moving to Sears, where she spent the rest of her career. Small world...

Here's some Burlington Northerns made by Weaver & a 1 to 1 Wilson Packing Reefer.

                              LUMBER DELIVERY to finish the layout...

A few new boxcar projects…

MTH boxcar, repainted and decaled…

Another MTH 19th century car, detailed and painted. Awaiting weathering…

A MTH 19th century car, factory painted. Detailed and with some additional decals…

Tom

@SIRT posted:

                              LUMBER DELIVERY to finish the layout...

That looks awesome SIRT!

John

Here’s a few of my favs.

Lionel ATSF 86’ box car

Atlas ACF ATSF (ex-Railbox) box car

MTH UP 50’ High Cube Box Car

John

Great Northern #20237 is a model of a Pullman Standard PS-1 40-foot steel boxcar made by MTH Premier (20-93014), delivered in March 1999, and listed at MSRP $39.95. The car was built in March 1954 and leased to the railroad by a bank in New York.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Great Northern #20237 is a model of a Pullman Standard PS-1 40-foot steel boxcar made by MTH Premier (20-93014), delivered in March 1999, and listed at MSRP $39.95. The car was built in March 1954 and leased to the railroad by a bank in New York.

MELGAR

Living next to the Burlington tracks from 1963 - 1991 this was one of my favorites as a youth.

Here we have some PW Lionel Scout-Type Boxcars 6014 Frisco 1957, 63 & 69, 6014 Bosco 1958 and Swift 6050 1962 w/bank slot. Have a good Boxcar Sunday.

Hey Dave, remember seeing these, hope this qualifies for a boxcar🙂 It is definitely Sunday, at least where I am (I think)

What a man does for a beautiful red hair lass, along with my "Scully" tanker and reefer, here is my "Scully" bobbing head boxcar with only a caboose and engine to complete my homage to Gillian.