1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment Ride the Southern Tier and

Ride the Southern Tier and its extensive branchline system when the EL hosted anything from SD45s to F3s on the head end

full color guide to the rolling stock of the Great Northern Railway

they photographed the last of steam and early diesels moving tonnage and passengers

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

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment Ride the Southern Tier 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