Growing up next to the tracks in the 60's trough 80's I saw tank trains, hopper trains, and boxcar trains. I always liked the boxcar trains the best do to the variety of sizes and colors. Let's see what you have on your pike. Real boxcar pictures are good to as long as you have permission to use them or there your own.
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Did someone say boxcars?
Rusty
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Here are some box cars.
rattler21 posted:
Factory (Stock) Lionel 6-17736 Pennsylvania Round Roof Boxcar found it on the bay awhile back. I only decorated it and re-sold it back on the bay. I think Don Klose got it?
60516 made in 2012, Lionel link here –
http://www.lionel.com/products...boxcar-60516-6-17736
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nmp's
One of my favorites......
At the opposite end of the spectrum.......
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Big 86' SP, two 40' PS-1 cars as well
Chris that boxcar is HUGE��
MY Warhorhorse Santa Fe hauling reefers
briansilvermustang posted:
Recently sold a MTH Premier version of that car. Regret it now!
that is a cool car....
rattler21 posted:
Lower left box car is the LCCA car with LEDs in the eagle's eye and blue field of our flag. John in ILL
The green express box Weaver?
Steamer posted:.
Marx SF cattle on Lionel flat. Interesting.
A a couple of neglected ones found on my travels
some oldies....
S P.....Some Paint.....
W P.... Weathered Paint.....
free art classes.....
N S.....almost No Space left.....
band from 2010......
nmp's...
Lionel's Kansas City Southern boxcars.
The latest is a matte finish. I like i t better than glossy versions.
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Aliens abound
Now you see me
Now you don't 
I love the Lionel bobbing action cars, adds amusement to your layout.
Love MA & PA
I not sure which I like more Boxcars or Caboose's so here are some of my Boxcars.
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RJT posted:I not sure which I like more Boxcars or Caboose's so here are some of my Boxcars.
Rick I can relate to that. And I thought I had a lot of both. Now know better.
Nice one Brian! Is that MTH? briansilvermustang posted:V
nmp's..... not my layout.......
Here are some more box cars
my contribution to Box car Sunday.....
This one has been sitting near the former PRR station in Lewistown, PA for about as long as I can remember. If you look closely; you can still make out the PRR keystone.
Curt
PRRronbh posted:briansilvermustang posted:
Recently sold a MTH Premier version of that car. Regret it now!
Here is the Atlas O version of the car. Someday I'll get around to weathering it.
Here are a couple more Atlas cars.
"All you need is LOVE," Beatles boxcars, and Lionel "Please, please me," with an engine & caboose.
...."like a rock", oops, wrong commercial.....
What a cool shot,,,right to the horizon!
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A SMR Trains box car kit, my first such and fun to build. This is the learning curve for my next car, SIRT 7, one of at least two cars left over from construction of the Staten Island Rail Road in 1860, and retained for baggage and mail:
I Love MA & PA
My contribution to Box car Sunday....the drab yet scarce MKT boxcar....
My contribution for this Sunday August 13, 2017. I hope refers count because here is a movie of the brewmasters " Libation Limited! "
my favorite boxcar...(i worked for JCPenney for 36 1/2 years)...favorite switcher, too!...
howard...
I met J. C. Penny in Cheyenne Wy. At a store opening in 1958, wonderful visit I still remember that event.
Just got this one off daBay. Old Athearn, maybe All-Nation, 50ft kit. Previous owner had put some nice Lionel die-cast trucks on it (too far outboard - 3-minute re-drill and move mod) and it has a good paint job and lettering.
I've said it before, I like these old metal kits because they look...metal, like the real thing. Thin cross-section material. Not as hyper-detailed as the new stuff (which is beautiful), but I don't care.
Often inexpensive, too - especially if already in the 3RO configuration, as this one was. And, if assembled correctly, pretty robust.
Essentially all the underbody detail that I typically need.
Unless you've had a wreck...
Bangor & Aroostook Potatoes Service.
D500 posted:Just got this one off daBay. Old Athearn, maybe All-Nation, 50ft kit. Previous owner had put some nice Lionel die-cast trucks on it (too far outboard - 3-minute re-drill and move mod) and it has a good paint job and lettering.
I've said it before, I like these old metal kits because they look...metal, like the real thing. Thin cross-section material. Not as hyper-detailed as the new stuff (which is beautiful), but I don't care.
Often inexpensive, too - especially if already in the 3RO configuration, as this one was. And, if assembled correctly, pretty robust.
Essentially all the underbody detail that I typically need.
Unless you've had a wreck...
In a moving train most of that minute detail is lost to the eye. Nice car.
So many choices, so many sizes. Yes!!!
On of my favorite railroads, saw a lot of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC growing up out West in the 50's and early 60's.
http://wikimapia.org/7389442/CRRNJ-Bronx-Terminal
http://ponyrr.blogspot.com/201...h-street-aerial.html
a box car needs a box cab.......
Boxcar scene
One of my favorite projects back several years ago. Painting and lettering a Kadee HO Great Northern 40 ft box car. The paint had to be custom mixed as there was no match for the GN green. I must have done a dozen or so mixtures to get it as close as possible.
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Very well detailed I must say!
My contribution to Boxcar Sunday.......
Three from different companies and eras.
MPC era Erie-Lackawanna box car with a cool shade of blue. From a SS set.
K-Line B&O woodsided reefer.
Menard's C&O box car.
Empties ready to roll west.
Santa Fe MOW car. Santa Fe was infamous for diluting the silver paint used to cover an ex-revenue car.
John Smith commissioned this model which is quite rare and goes for big bucks at auction houses.
PR car used for this project.
I diluted silver latex paint and ours runs in our MOW trains. I need to apply black decals.
John in Lansing, ILL
SOO LINE "50" BOX CAR WITH A WOOD LOAD.
box car reflection....
....forgot to get sent out to "Ziebart"....
Here's are two shots from the Free State Junction Railway's all box car " Merchant's Limited " as it whizzed through town yesterday. 
All alone in consist of tank cars
A change in carrier's after a takeover.
Here's some boxcars for this Sunday
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some flammable box cars today.......
some oldies but goodies.....
My Baltimore Ravens boxcars signed by coach Brian Billick & players. I've been a season ticket holder from the beginning, 1996. GO RAVENS.
GO BROWNS !!
NYS&W Boxcar Little Ferry, NJ 02/87
briansilvermustang posted:
GO BROWNS !!
Things may be looking up for us Browns fans!
so far, so good !!! 
yes, hopefully this will be a good year !!
I'm a little late, Done trimming trees for the day. Heres a Halloween themed boxcar.
Here's the soundtrack
Got boxcars?
Loading corvettes
Thumbtacked SP 8 door
Scratch built based on photo found on berlinr site. I still wonder if this is a photo shop he did and had tried to contact him about it without success. Used an MTH frame and trucks, shortened to 34 feet scale, atlas details. Apparently this type of reefer was real from comments I received several years ago when I inquired on the real train forum. It was a project that made me appreciate scratch modelers even more.
Craignor posted:I just put together this freight train of boxcars, glad to see this thread.
Craig IMPRESSIVE string of cars and nice layout
Here's one that's fun to run!!!
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