Your Favorite Boxcar Paint Scheme

 

When done properly.

Hands down, the red, white and blue "State of Maine Products"of the Bangor and Aroostook.

Always have loved this one!

 

 

 

There are so many I like that's a tough one for me to answer, but if push came to shove, I would pick this with either Southern Pacific or Cotton Belt painted on one end.  Reminds me of when I was just a boy and my whole life was ahead of me.

 

 

Rusty

Easy reply on this! Boiler Up!

In the passenger scheme.

The AT&SF in red

 

 

     Bill T

No pictures at the moment but two of mine:

 

Union Pacific "We can handle it" Tuscan brown with patriotic herald

 

Florida East Coast Railway "Speedway to Sunshine"

 

Mark

I'll second TrainsRMe; the State of Maine Products are my favorite boxcar paint scheme.  I've got two of the BAR version and one of the New Haven.

Curt

Too many to have a favorite, but I'm fond of this series:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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State of Maine boxcars.  What other boxcar from a small railroad has been offered more often over the decades in so many scales?

Central of Georgia RR. Fifty footer, black with large silver oval on sides.  

Here are some of my favorites.

 

i'll second that opinion...

 

(that's a Marx O gauge car on the roofwalk)

 

cheers...gary

I personally like this one.

 

 

 

Ron Tucker

I like this one too.  To bad it didn't last long.

Mine has to be the Lionel Warbonnet.  Lionel did an entire series of Warbonnet freight cars and a caboose back in 2010 (I think).  I didn't know about them until they were all sold out, and now the prices are astronomical!

 

 

 

Hear ya go Paul....

 

 

 

Not an easy question for me as I have several.

Paul, the one above was on my list. 

So I assume the question only pertains to paint schemes and not slogans.

I’m more attracted to slogan cars which are mostly black, brown or boxcar red.

 

I’ll pick this one I guess?

 

 

 

 

Maine Central The Pine Tree Route

 

Mine would be the original real life Southern Pacific Overnight Express boxcar. I apologize for not having a photo.

 

Okay... I'll take a shot: You like the GN?

 

 

 

Reckon' I'm the odd man out again.  Ever since I was a kid I liked the types of boxcars I saw around KC: Boxcar reds, browns, tuscan... the other loud/bright ones didn't show up much in the "work a day" world around KC I was exposed to.

 

The boxcar included with my original Lindberg Lines HO set I received as a kid in 1962 had a boxcar red C&NW boxcar in it. In fact, all of the cars in it were "typical"... (including a switch engine) so I loved it that set.

 

Here's a close facsimile of the Lindberg set of which I refer:

 

 

 

This one is that spectacular Lionel car with Walthers decals.  The PRR is done with decals copied from the smaller car on top - an old metal Varney car from 1950.

Such a hard question. Here are some of my favorites.

 

 

Along with the NYC's Pacemaker boxcars, you can't go wrong with the Rock Island's "Bankruptcy Blue"

 

James

 

Kind of hard to find.

 

 

Jay

Sorry, no picture.

Back in the late 70's I remember walking to school and seeing a yellow RailBox boxcar on the tracks. That was one good looking boxcar. I have the MPC version somewhere.

Your Railbox and another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What, me worry?

That SEABOARD just looks great IMO, but if I wasn't modeling SAL I'd be all over the Great Northern, great graphics and great colors.

anyone want to add Billboard Refers? Then we would really see some art work.

I am surprised not to see any of these mentioned thus far.

These two C&NWs, the name and the longhand lettering.  But my favorite would the the last, the overall flow and the oval herald.

Gentlemen,

   Actually one of my non Tin Plate favorite new Box Cars is made by Menard's, their simple classic Military Ammo Box Car is just fantastic, being a conservative kind of military guy this was a welcome addition to my US Army Special Forces Train.

 

David one of our OGR members, sold me a serious Atlas PRR Insulated Box Car, which is really quite nice also, great looking Atlas PRR Tuscan Box Car.

 

PCRR/Dave

C&O Cameo paint schemes are my favorites...

 

 

Love 'dem "Kitten Cars"!

Another vote for State of Maine boxcars.

Railbox 

I've always liked these.

 

Jeff Davis

I'm partial to the girls.

 

 

No no no You've got it backwards.

 

 

 

 

Or upside down maybe

 

 

 

 Actually the Goat Northern logo alone is fine by me. Green a bonus & green & orange another bonus!

 Alaska, and the WP feather are up there too ...right with St.O.M. & the SOO.

I like  the lady with the broom on the Old Dutch Cleanser car

  

This is a tough one... Kind of like declaring which is your favorite child.  Here they are in no particular order.

 

Tom

from my Westinghouse collection

 

 

I am a big fan of local boxcars

     Bosch Beers Co. & Detroit and Mackinac Railway

  Gary

Central  Early Bird....one of my favorites, from early on !

All very nice paint schemes.  Let me add this one:

Even though I'm a Milwaukee fan I grew up in Northern California with the Northwestern Pacific. These are my two favs. Don

Hey Matt, where did you get the Hills Bros. Coffee car. I can still smell the coffee going across the bay bride. don

Don, it's an Atlas product.  They still carry them. Hills Brothers actually had two of their own box cars.  The building is still there...with the big red sign...but it's an office building now.  Matt 

One vote from me and one vote from my roommate "Chessie Marie" the cat the road for which she was named after cause when sleeping she is a dead-ringer!

 I've got lots of favorites,one is the old red SP cars with the arrows and big white SP logo.

Anything Northern Pacific.... love the logo:

 

 

State of Maine with the full Red White and Blue door, never did like the full red door

Seems like there was another thread with this same question a couple months ago.  My answer is still the same.  Santa Fe all the way.

Found another favorite going through my computer this weekend. 

 

 

 

I remember that I took this photo with an instamatic-type camera (126 film?) in 1984 while visiting friends in Rochester NY. I saw this car on a siding and stopped to take a pic.

 

Peter

Lots of great boxcars here, hard to pick just one but I'll toss out these 2 since I haven't seen them here yet:

 

 

 

Jerry

Three-way tie between Rutland green & yellow, New York Central's jade green,

Great Northern's orange (postwar # 6464-25).

 

     Hoppy