Just over five weeks ago I posted a question about what color to paint a Texas & Pacific boxcar. A number of you sent me color photos of the cars and additional information. I was finishing a model of

Besides making freight cars Pacific Car & Foundry also built vehicles and carts. In 1926 and 1930 they produced carts for Pacific Fruit Express that were used in the servicing areas and the order numb

Here is a car I have not seen before, Case Threshing Machine Co. flat car No. 503. This photo was taken around April 1924 after Pacific Car & Foundry had built 3' gauge box car No. 1202 for the Pacifi

I finished the build on RCW 7.02 UTLX Class X 6,000 gallon tank car this afternoon. It’s the last resin kit in my stash, so it’s a milestone of sorts. When I purposed to build the stash, there were 48

New Haven insulated box car NH 45003 built by Pacific Car & Foundry in June 1953. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

First, a shout-out to Charlie Duckworth for his recent post and fine modeling of the BL NWX reefer. With a stash totally bare of unbuilt resin kits and a layout already overpopulated with red boxcars,

Tim, Red Caboose must have made more significant changes to the tooling. The Front Range 8’ door car had somewhat narrower panel sizes than the Red Caboose version of the car, so the Front Range cars

Bill told me that the economic hit the on-the-ropes Red Caboose got was from the money spent upgrading the former Front Range 40' box cars. The sales were way below expectations and I would wager that

Yep. As Andy says we've discussed the McKean (now Accurail) car many times. The easiest one to model closely (without major mods to the roof) is the 3000-3499 series. This Jim Parker shot is one of my

Bruce mentioned a train of boxcars with a stairstep effect and here is one on the SP&S: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/uploads/r/oregon-historical-society-library/8/9/6/896c6ee657dcd3bd829bcbb6298

North Western Refrigerator Line refrigerator car NWX 793, this car was originally built in March 1927 and was rebuilt by Pacific Car & Foundry in March 1955. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collect

Milwaukee Road Automobile Box Car CMSTP&P 594446, built by Pacific Car & Foundry August 1929. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Rich Wilkens

Milwaukee Road Box Car CMSTP&P 715394, built by Pacific Car & Foundry September 1928. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Rich Wilkens

Water Testing Boxcars At MDT Rochester Shops Photos courtesy of East Rochester Historical Society: http://www.erhistory.com/images/collection/125_CARSHOPS/330.jpg http://www.erhistory.com/images/colle

One last photo from the Bangor & Aroostook, refrigerator car BAR 8000, built April 1955. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

The recent posts on the sale of resin kits has prompted a few random.thoughts. I fondly remember the Feeding Frenzy that occurred when Martin opened the doors to his sales room at the Naperville meets

Photo: PRR Boxcar 570062 (1941) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017820462/ Photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Good view of “B” end. I’m sure the P

Pacific Car & Foundry built Bangor & Aroostook refrigerator car BAR 7471, built March 1952. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

I picked up a couple of these cars a long time ago. Now I am wondering are they even close to being accurate? Thanks Jim Pattison

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