4 different S scale boxcars, printed cardstock

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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
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That's less than per pair of sides! This would fit right in with any steam or early diesel-era layout