I kinda like boxcars.....

[JoeKoh]

what also is neat is seeing different reporting marks on the sides of the cars.whose car is it?

stay safe

Joe

[CShaveRR]

Some of the neatest box cars now are in the HS 30000 series and 75000 series.  These are cars that had been built in the late 1970s for many of the short lines; now they're generally used to haul the Corona from Mexico.

[SFbrkmn]

I worked in a Kansas flour mill during the 1980's &  1990's. We used to load  sacked flour, most of it billed to the TX gulf ports for export, but there were loadings of domestic business to. In fact my first three yrs, 1981-1983, 40 ft cars were still in use @  our mill. The plant was on SF, so naturally the cars were from the home rr. After 1983 it was 50 or even some 60 footers being used. In May 1987, the ICC issued a service order requiring rrs begin pooling boxcars nationwide. From that time on until sacked business was abolished in 1993, boxcars from any carrier anywhere were being sent to the mill. That was indeed a nice variety and a big change from looking @ SF  cars from the previous yrs. The good ole days certainly long gone by. I was only glad to have photographed the many cars in the plant during that time period

[SALfan]

Boxcars are cool.  I remember seeing "Route of the Eagles" on an old MP boxcar in Arkansas in the 1980's.  Also saw an ex-NYC in all its (eye-shocking) jade-green glory west of Waycross, GA in either the late '70's or early 80's.  Even saw a few ex-SAL and quite a few ex-ACL boxcars in earlier years in that area.  Memories of a bygone age . . . . 

[Murphy Siding]

 

Or doublestacks. I can't get used to seeing containers on our freight trains. They're so generic and impersonal. I agree that boxcars had more character.

Nelson

     And you'll never see a faded CBQ billboard on a continer

[SteamFreak]

 Our city sees quite a few boxcars, mostly going to lumber wholesalers and cardboard box companies.  I'd rather sit and watch a train of boxcars than parades of grain hoppers anytime.  Many have old railroad advertizing still visible on the side.  That sure beats a mile of oxide red BNSF/swoosh hoppers!

Or doublestacks. I can't get used to seeing containers on our freight trains. They're so generic and impersonal. I agree that boxcars had more character.

Nelson

[Murphy Siding]

     Our city sees quite a few boxcars, mostly going to lumber wholesalers and cardboard box companies.  I'd rather sit and watch a train of boxcars than parades of grain hoppers anytime.  Many have old railroad advertizing still visible on the side.  That sure beats a mile of oxide red BNSF/swoosh hoppers!  Most common around here are MRL, WC, and BN. There is a good variety to be sure.  I always figure it's a bonus day, when I see a boxcar painted for some old fallen flag.  Yesterday, I saw one marked Family Lines, and another old.Seaboard Coast Line car.  CNW symboled boxcars just to fade into the background paint.