4 different S scale boxcars, printed cardstock

Description

Four
pairs
of sides for 4 boxcars printed full color on cardstock. They are
blank on back so you can glue them onto an existing plastic or wooden
boxcar, or make one yourself out of balsa or basswood.
ATSF
wood-era reefer boxcar
#25603
, one side has a map “Santa Fe all the
way” and the other side says “Route of the Chief,
Chicago-Los Angeles Streamliner”
Bent
Spaghetti Lines green wood-era boxcar
Delta
Lines brown wood-era boxcar
St.L.
I-M. & S. wood-era brown boxcar “Furniture & Buggy Car”
“Santa
Fe” SFRD#25603 wood-style orange reefer boxcar based
partly on an article & photos in Southwestern Prototype Modeler
(1975). There are two sides in black, orange & white. One side
has slogan “Route Of The Chief” and the other has a map of
the ATSF at the time. The reefer depicted was based on one built by
Pullman Car & Manufacturing about 1930. Santa Fe first added the
map to their boxcars in 1940, but paint shops along the route had to
cut out their own stencils based on drawings that they were sent, and
had trouble making the curved lines.
So
the following year it was changed to strait lines connecting points
on the map, used after 1941 and for decades after. So 1940 was
probably the only year this “rounded” map design was
painted, though the cars would have remained in service with the map
intact until they needed repainting again in future years. The ends
were also painted orange (actually 4 parts reefer orange to one part
reefer yellow for ATSF reefers), with black roof. If you use an L
shaped stripwood to hide the vertical corners, this should also be
painted black, as should ladders if you add them. ATSF later painted
its metal reefers orange on the side and black on the ends,
presumably including any surviving wood reefers at that point. Most
modelers prefer the black ends to contrast with the orange sides, but
that’s up to you. The length of 33 feet shown on the side is the
inside measurement that it could be loaded to between the ice
bulkheads. External length not counting the couplers was about 38
feet.
Bent
Spaghetti Lines #1983 boxcar sides printed on cardstock, blank on
back to glue onto pine or balsa wood boxcar. There are two sides in
black, white & green, and two little yellow doors. Right of the
door is the slogan Route of the Meatball Limited.
Delta
Lines #1982 boxcar. There are two sides in black, white &
brown or Tuscan red, and two doors. BLT date is 12-17. This was a
fictional name as far as I know but would fit right in with any
steam-era layout in the Sacramento delta area, the Gulf Coast, or of
course the New Orleans area
I
had no idea there were so many people out there buggy about boxcar
sides. So I’ve been looking through my boxes and old hobby shop
inventory and found this one. St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern
#9779 boxcar sides printed on cardstock. There are two sides in white & brown or
Tuscan red, and black detail. The doors are intentionally left mostly
blank because you have a choice of a shut full door, or a shut yellow
half-door. The open full door would then be glued to the right of the
half door, and you will need to carefully cut out the entire door
opening to put the inner yellow door flush with the wall, use a
couple of toothpicks inside to support the back of the yellow
half-door. This car is based on actual grain cars tht operated on the
St L I M & S (later Missouri Pacific) and Soo Lines from the
1880s to the 1920s. When Whit Towers made a model of it for the Gorre
& Daphetid division of his layout, he added the lettering to the
right of the door, Furniture & Buggy Car. In 1979, the St. Louis
Museum of Transport lettered one of the real-life grain boxcars in
their collection to match it. The small painted box containing the railroad’s
initials and car number is to be cut out and placed on each end of
the boxcar which you will have painted to match the printed sides.
Boxcar roof is also the same color
These
4 would fit right in with any steam or early diesel-era layout.
This would fit right in with any steam or diesel-era layout. Guarantee: if you don’t like it, send them back for full refund
Shipping is the about the same rate for US, Canada and world-wide!
That’s less than $2 per pair of sides! This would fit right in with any steam or early diesel-era layout