http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=394573&nseq=48
I'm curious who owns that bright red double-door boxcar in this pic. It's too small for me to read the name on it and I am not fimiliar with 70s freight cars enough to know who had bright red cars like that. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it was the Bangor and Aroostook, but I see no signs of any BAR logo like most of there boxcars had.
Any ideas guys?
The red box car in the photo is pretty small but it looks very similar to the Atlas Evans 50' double plug door box car used a lot in lumber service. Atlas makes them in N and HO scale. I can't read the reporting marks or lettering but based on the pattern, you might be able to compare it to one of the red Atlas Evan's box cars they have produced and see if the pattern matches. Atlas has made a few red Evans 50' dd box cars.
Also in HO Athearn makes an Evan's 50' double plug door box car from the old Details West tooling, but the Atlas model is the better one and the prices are roughly the same. YMMV.
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I think I found the owner.
Looks like a Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific double door boxcar.
David, looks like the lettering matches the pattern in the photo, even though it's unreadable. Good find. Is that an Atlas Evans box car model you posted an image off?
Got it off of a google search, but it does like Atlas style graphics.
What key words did you use to search google - makes a huge difference on what you find or don't find. Or did you already suspect what the box car was when you posted?
Since you found an image of what looks to be a model, now the question is, if you want a model of it, is it in your scale. IIRC, Atlas makes Evans 50 dd box cars in N, HO and O, but not sure about paint schemes on all scales.
I typed "Red Plug Door Boxcar" :P
And yes I am an HO scale modler, and I plan on modling the 90s-00s, so maybe a patchout version of this car would work.
David,
good job in finding the car! Initially Bangor and Aroostook is a good guess, but when looking more closely, we see that the "white triangle", seen on this link, is missing:
http://www.wig-wag-trains.com/MTLPages/MTLPhotos/N-Boxcars/025/025-00-260_BAR.jpg
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David, follow this link and you'll see your box car is part of the most recent run of Atlas HO Evan's 50' box cars, shipped earlier this year.
http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/hoevans10.htm#.Vjn92UVOncs
They should be available at various dealers and vendors.
Cheers, Jim