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Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

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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.

MORE tips HERE - https://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/5010

 

 

CAPPilotCAPPilotOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

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.

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

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The X-26 was a 40' 50-ton single sheathed USRA boxcar with a capacity of 100,000lbs.  The Government ordered 100,000 of them during WWI, of which 9,900 went to the PRR starting in 1919.  Following WWII nearly all were rebuilt into all steel cars.

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During 1945-1949 the PRR rebuilt 3,500 X-26 cars into the X-26c boxcar.

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These are AtlasO products.  

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Pine Creek RailroadPine Creek RailroadOGR Forum Member

Cappilot,

   Ron here is one that went to the WAG RR in the Potter/Tioga mountains.  It's an Atlas product also.  I now have 4 of these, however Atlas only produced 2 Road numbers of the old WAG Box Cars.

PCRR/Dave

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Crown also made a custom run of a Couple WAG Box Cars also, Pretty nice stuff but not as nice as the Atlas with their Super Detail.

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Both the Atlas and the Crown made are pretty cool stuff, the WAG RR was very small, it serviced the Leather industry and Logging of the Pa mountains along Rt #6 thru the Pa Grand Canyon and up into Elmira, NY.   Having both these companies choose to make the WAG Box Cars was IMO fantastic!  My Great -Grandfather was one of the Engineers who actually pulled these Box Cars behind the Engines he drove up thru the Pa & NY mountains.  A part of RR story now long gone.

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ToledoEdToledoEdOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
RSJB18 posted:
briansilvermustang posted:

                                                             Go Browns...

                                                          perfect season...

Perfect in all the wrong ways.

Sorry

From NFL Champs to, to, to....what?  Oh, yeah,  "Wait until next year!"  As a life-long Browns fan I just wish that "next year" would just GET HERE ALREADY!  

woof woof.  Like  the boxcar...I have one also proudly on permanent display.

Arnold D. CribariArnold D. CribariOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
ToledoEd posted:
RSJB18 posted:
briansilvermustang posted:

                                                             Go Browns...

                                                          perfect season...

Perfect in all the wrong ways.

Sorry

From NFL Champs to, to, to....what?  Oh, yeah,  "Wait until next year!"  As a life-long Browns fan I just wish that "next year" would just GET HERE ALREADY!  

woof woof.  Like  the boxcar...I have one also proudly on permanent display.

Doesn’t the above dog look a little like Briansilvermustang’s dog?

gandydancer1950gandydancer1950OGR Forum Member
ToledoEd posted:
RSJB18 posted:
briansilvermustang posted:

                                                             Go Browns...

                                                          perfect season...

Perfect in all the wrong ways.

Sorry

From NFL Champs to, to, to....what?  Oh, yeah,  "Wait until next year!"  As a life-long Browns fan I just wish that "next year" would just GET HERE ALREADY!  

woof woof.  Like  the boxcar...I have one also proudly on permanent display.

Been a Browns fan since 1960, when I could first understand the game. Although I remain loyal, (except for the kneelers), they are making it extremely difficult to remain so.

 

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SIRT posted:

                                             

                                                     #1472 Load of potatoes...............

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I'm constantly amazed at your abilities, but also your creativity in coming up with ideas for loads. You are on another level man!

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gandydancer1950 posted:
ToledoEd posted:
RSJB18 posted:
briansilvermustang posted:

                                                             Go Browns...

                                                          perfect season...

Perfect in all the wrong ways.

Sorry

From NFL Champs to, to, to....what?  Oh, yeah,  "Wait until next year!"  As a life-long Browns fan I just wish that "next year" would just GET HERE ALREADY!  

woof woof.  Like  the boxcar...I have one also proudly on permanent display.

Been a Browns fan since 1960, when I could first understand the game. Although I remain loyal, (except for the kneelers), they are making it extremely difficult to remain so.

 

I'm old enough to remember Kosar, Mack, Byner, Newsome, Slaughter, and Langhorn...and hope that eventually we might be that good again. For some reason I still can't pull myself away from caring. Consider it an unexplained phenomenon that we still root for this team (although I think the ESPN 30 for 30 pretty much nailed why Cleveland fans are the way we are.) It's entirely possible this team will continue to be the factory of sadness forever. That said, if the Bengals figured it out, then so can we.  

RT Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member

1995 was the NMRA's 60th Anniversary.  As part of the celebration UP placarded a boxcar.   Models were made available to NMRA members, Railbox boxcar models were used in N, HO, S and O because at the time no model of the actual car existed.  This one is S Scale Hirail:

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Don't know if or when the placard was removed, but by 2007 the prototype was looking a little ragged.

50' Boxcar MP-UP 266929

Rusty

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CAPPilotCAPPilotOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Since we have had some interesting discussions on the forum concerning Lionel's new American Freedom Train set, I thought for Boxcar Sunday I'd show a picture of the AFT's "The Boxcar", car #33.

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I doubt Lionel would add this car to the set, although Lionel's model of #100 "Entrance Car" looks a whole lot more like this car than the real #100.

Anyway, MTH's fake AFT set came with two baggage cars, one with the initial release and one with the later release.  These MTH cars match the colors of the Lionel set (which matched the colors of the K-Line set), and are a good stand-in for #33 (and #20, the other storage car).

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Now all I have to do is figure out how to change the number from 200 to 33 on that white background without it looking terrible.  Then I'll have "The Boxcar" for my AFT.

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RT Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member
Jushavnfun posted:

Well this is more than boxcars, its a special taking supplies to San Antonio for the Final Four games coming up.20180326_15213120180326_152148

Team and staff leave later. Kansas City SOUTHERN is preparing a Memphis BELLE Special for their trip. Stay tuned for pictures.

Goid lick to all 4 finalist this weekend.

It ain't goin' nowhere with two cars derailed...

Rusty

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briansilvermustang posted:

                 just a little bit farther to go, keep pushing...

Back in the late 70's I was a millwright, worked 3rd shift for BFF (Berwick Forge and Fabricating) they made railroad cars.  One night I had to go to the east paint shed to do some work. There was a string of 2 box cars a space (approx. 65') and another string of 3-4 boxcrars. I thought "hmmm, I wonder if I can push one of them cars by myself" ???  I uncoupled the end car, braced my back to the other boxcar and started pushing the end car. I got it rolling and kept pushing til it hit the other cars coupler. I figured if I tell anyone, they'd say it probably was on a slight down grade. Soooooo....... I got on the other end of the car and pushed it back the other way til the coupler hit the car it was originally coupled to. Back then I was about 28 yrs old, and let me tell you, after that exercise, I was exhausted for a few days. Now adays, I get exhausting just thinking about it. ;-)

 

 

prrhorseshoecurveprrhorseshoecurveOGR Forum Member
FrankRazz posted:

Left alone:

WOW! Not to get off topic but that "Rube Goldberg" of a structure is quite interesting. IT appears to be made from Lionel single stall engine house kits, the wooden freighthouse kits, a watchmans Shanty kit and the Lionel Water Tower kit.... although the two steel beams holding up that water tower and substructure have to be questioned by a structural engineer!

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