1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment The end of steam and

The end of steam and the entire diesel roster from Centipedes and FT’s to C420’s and GP40’s – all in vivid color

Follow author Jim Boyd as the BN merger takes place and its eclectic locomotive roster is organized

then it had to be a Mohawk or Mike

Its story stretches from Pier 14 North River and the Poughkeepsie Bridge in the west to Commonwealth Pier Boston and Siasconset on Nantucket Island in the East

When this bestseller was released in 1989 no volume was indicated but this is “Volume 1” of the six volume series

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment The end of steam andJames 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