1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment Concludes coverage of the company’s

Concludes coverage of the company’s diesel motive power fleet

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

All active subdivisions during that time frame are featured

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

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

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment Concludes coverage of the company’sJames 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