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Feeling a bit BOX'ed in
Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, March 8, 2012 10:23 AM

OK, time to try another what I call "Pun Topics" to see if we can get our Railfan photographers posting more photos.  My two previous attempts (Look Mom, I can do my 1-2-3's and Look Mom, I can do my A-B-C's) got a few players but I want MORE! Cowboy  Like before, I will make this a Sticky topic for 3 Months and then it ride on it's own from there.

So, this one is all about posting your photographs of "Box Cars" so if you have them post them and if not get that camera out and go get some!

 

 

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Posted by CopCarSS on Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:56 PM

A couple Grande Boxcars out at CRRM:


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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:57 PM

Bet Kalmbach likes this thread....

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, March 9, 2012 8:12 AM

Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, March 9, 2012 9:15 AM

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, March 9, 2012 4:38 PM

Do those that were repurposed count?

 

 

 

 

{Edit: Sorry: the hosting site lost my photos.}

 

 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:35 PM

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Posted by tcwright973 on Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:19 PM

This one was on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania located in Strasburg.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, March 12, 2012 9:00 AM

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Posted by Acela026 on Monday, March 12, 2012 3:13 PM

I'll bite. 

I believe this one's a Wisconsin & Southern

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:29 AM

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:46 AM

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:58 PM

A few more repurposed boxcars:

 

 

 

 

 

{EDIT: Sorry, the hosting site lost my photos.}

 

 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:10 PM

WOW, that last shot is a setup I've not seen before.  Looks like they both would open up to the inside of the overall structure.

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Posted by Leo_Ames on Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:11 AM

I've seem a photo of something similar to that last shot. I think it was in Railroad Model Craftsman in the 1990's and was a barn made with two old stock cars. Was a 1 page or so article about strange things out there that you'd guess would only exist on someone's layout.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:26 AM

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Posted by CopCarSS on Friday, March 16, 2012 9:01 AM

Posted this in my new thread, but it seemed appropriate here, too:


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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, March 16, 2012 9:04 AM

Very Nice!!!!!!! Bow Bow Bow Bow

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, March 16, 2012 9:14 AM

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:12 PM

Hey! The LION found some box cars. They are in upstate NY. Anybody know where?

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:57 AM

A couple of pictures from the old C & O's Stevens Yard in Silver Grove, Ky.

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:06 AM

An old NC & StL box car that had been stored at a local Import/Export company here in louisville for a bunch of years, understand it's now gone to a museum. (SARM I believe.)

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