1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment the magnificent PA

the magnificent PA

Operations of the DW&P are examined from the steam to diesel era in this new book

Examine the last of Rio Grande steam in main line freight and passenger service followed by a down the roster look at everything from FT’s to SD9’s

ART M&LS and NJI&I

and short lines are also shown

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment the magnificent PAJames Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly The 1950s are arguably the classic era for freight cars, pre dating the mergers that would erase many venerable roads and leave us with new names such as Penn Central, Seaboard Coast Lines, and Erie Lackawanna. In the 1950s, "boxcar red" was everywhere, but colorful new paint schemes were arriving and turning heads. It was the final decade of friction bearings and roofwalks, and the ultimate years of stock cars, ice