1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment but colorful new paint schemes

but colorful new paint schemes were arriving and turning heads

’50s and ’60s chronicle everything from FTs to GP35s to 4-8-4s

The most amazing compilation of rare GN steam and electric locomotives is here in full color

The Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners are featured as well as EMD’s F3’s

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1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment but colorful new paint schemesJames 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