Posted 4 years ago
fortapache
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Picked these up for $4 each at PCC. At first I thought they were Athearn but they are all metal. Typical HO train cars are plastic with a metal bar on the underside for weight. Just like real train cars HO train cars need some weight to keep them on the tracks. These are high quality cars. I think those are Kadee couplers. Those are couplers that look like actual train car couplers. Could be Accurail. I will keep looking.
Anyway 40 foot boxcars are the #1 train cars I buy as the 40' boxcar was the most common cars of 50s-70s which goes with most of my locomotives. So when I see boxcars it is all good. These also have great graphics.
My favorite is the boxcar in photo #3. It is a wooden metal boxcar. Actually it is a metal model of a wooden boxcar. Boxcars were originally made out of wood but started switching to metal in the 1920s.
Last is a stock car. Looks like a boxcar but is made for carrying cattle.
Too bad it takes so much effort to make an HO layout. I just want to lay out the track and set up some buildings and so on.
Thank you very much Ms.CrystalShip. Luckily I still have my trains although not the layout. It was held up in the garage with a pulley system so it could be raised and lowered.
Nice Boxcars! very uncommon in metal, have you found out the maker, and have you built the layout for them?
Thank you very much Lata. Never found the maker and no layout yet. I was just going to make a static display with 40' boxcars.