Santa Fe Quality (AUTO PARTS) 86’ boxcars.

Canadian Pacific 86’ boxcar.
Canadian Pacific CPAA as delivered 86’ boxcars. The 60s was an era of big logos and flashy paint so this large group of cars delivered by P-S in the Fall of 1967 is a notable exception for the time. The owner of this group was actually United States Railway Equipment and Canadian Pacific leased the cars from them. This may account for the paint scheme. The CPAA reporting marks were used by Canadian Pacific for cars built in the U.S., and assigned to cross-border traffic only. In this case, the cars were initially assigned for loading at a Ford plant on the DT&I in Dearborn, Michigan. Some could be seen four decades later in their original paint

Louisville & Nashville 86’ boxcar.
Louisville & Nashville 2nd version 86’ boxcars. L&N purchased hundreds of these auto-parts cars from three different builders over a 13 year period beginning in 1964. This particular group was delivered in 1968 and was initially assigned for loading on the N&W in Buffalo for delivery to several plants across much of the nation. Big plants in Louisville, Atlanta and suburban St. Louis guaranteed L&N’s membership in several big boxcar pools. This roadname will be available as a single and 2-pack: 86541

Southern (Serves The South/Super Cushion Service) 86’ boxcars.
Southern received these cars from Pullman Standard in the Summer of 1966 in this paint scheme. This group was initially assigned for loading at Ford’s stamping plant on the N&W (previously Wabash) in Buffalo, New York (note the “BUFF” below the road number.) Southern’s inclusion in this multi-railroad pool of cars was based on having a Ford assembly plant on their line in Georgia. However, Southern cars in this pool could move stampings from the Buffalo plant to any Ford plant anywhere in the country as demand required. This is typical of how auto-parts car pools operated.

TP / MP 86’ boxcar.
Texas & Pacific (MP) 86’ boxcars. Missouri Pacific had asserted stock control over the Texas & Pacific since the 1920s but T&P remained a separate railroad with their own practices and image for four decades. However, by the time this group of cars was delivered to T&P by P-S in December of 1967, The Missouri Pacific Lines buzzsaw logo had replaced T&P’s diamond and the border between the operations had begun to blur. Nine years later, the Texas & Pacific would finally be fully merged into MoPac and even the T.P. reporting marks would gradually disappear. This group was initially assigned for loading on the New York Central in Monroe, Michigan. This roadname will be available as a single and 2-pack: 86571 Texas & Pacific (MP) $29.85; 86572 Texas & Pacific (MP) 2-pack $59.70.

87181 Canadian National single car; 87182 2-Pack.
In 1983, Canadian National tranferred this group of quad door cars from US subsidiary Grand Trunk Western to the parent road. The GTW blue paint remained but all lettering was changed to Canadian National. The CNA (rather than the usual CN) reporting marks mean these cars were built in the US and assigned to international service.

Canadian Pacific 86’ Double Door Boxcars.
In 1996, CP Rail changed their name back to Canadian Pacific Railway. This paint scheme was the result. This group of cars was originally delivered by Pullman Standard in 1967 in an austere brown with only reporting marks. Over the years many were repainted in CP Rail colors and finally this paint scheme. The CPAA reporting marks mean these cars are assigned to international service, moving parts between plants in the United States and Canada. The white conspicuity stripes are a feature of CP's new paint scheme standards and actually predate the FRA reflector stripe mandate by nine years. This run will be available in three road numbers.

86251 Central of Georgia double door single car,86252 2-pack.
This batch of CoG cars was delivered in the summer of ‘66 and also initially assigned for loading in Cleveland, although at a Ford ’s Walton Hills plant.The 1,700+mile Central of Georgia blanketed much of Georgia and Alabama with branches to Tennessee and Florida. In the early 60 ’s, Southern gained control of the CoG and their influence spread into the lettering styles used on CoG ’s 8,000+car fleet.

86201 Chicago & North Western - 86202 2-pack.
In 1980, Chicago & North Western changed from boxcar red to this yellow and black scheme with a three-color logo on many boxcars. The C&NW logos also changed over the years. These cars were delivered in brown with yellow and black “Chicago and North Western Railway ”logos which was later replaced by “Employee -North Western -Owned ” but by the time these cars were painted yellow, they had long since switched to “Chicago and North Western System".

86211 CP Rail (MILW) single car, 86212 2-pack.
CP Rail ’s auto parts fleet includes former Milwaukee Road cars like these. The single and one car in the 2-pack have the lettering arrangement shown above. The other car in the 2-pack has the CP Rail name a few panels to the right as on the prototype for its road number. The painted door bars and area around the door latches on this batch seems to be unique to CP Rail.

Denver & Rio Grande #87162 2-Pack
Rio Grande received these quad door cars from Pullman Standard in the Summer of 1966. They were initially assigned for loading at a GM plant on the Pennsylvania RR in Indianapolis. Rio Grande had no assembly plants on line, but since they served as a bridge route for traffic between plants, they joined the appropriate multi-railroad equipment pools.

86181 Frisco single car, 86182 2-pack.
Frisco served auto plants in Oklahoma and Missouri plus handled considerable bridge traffic from the Deep South to the Midwest and Southwest. The Frisco was acquired by Burlington Northern in 1980!

Illinois Central Gulf - CN 86' Double Door Boxcars
ICG was born from the 1972 merger of Illinois Central and Gulf Mobile &Ohio. In 1985, they began selling off routes to new regional railroads with the goal of getting down to a core Chicago-to-the-Gulf business. With most of the former GM&O in the hands of others or abandoned, Illinois Central Gulf dropped the “Gulf” from their name in 1988. They left behind two decades of orange paint and adopted gray for boxcars. Eleven years later, the “new” Illinois Central was purchased by Canadian National. At this point, CN logos began to appear on IC rolling stock. One might ask why cars would be painted with the current CN logo and Illinois Central Gulf lettering when the "Gulf" had been dropped years before. This is probably due to wording in the original equipment trust and lease agreements since a large percentage of the repainted fleet carries this lettering. Some of these cars have been painted brown instead of gray so we are including one of the brown cars in the 2-pack. 86471 Illinois Central Gulf - CN single car (gray), 86472 2-pack (1 gray car, 1 brown car). Order a single and a 2-pack to get all 3 road numbers available.

86301 L&N Family Lines double door single car; 86302 2-pack.
Louisville & Nashville received their last batch of 86' boxcars from Greenville in 1977. They were delivered in this Family Lines paint scheme. The Family Lines consisted of Seaboard Coast Line, L&N, Clinchfield, Georgia, Atlanta & West Point, and Western Railway of Alabama (the latter two were known together as The West Point Route.) SCL owned a significant block of L&N stock. The two together jointly owned the Clinchfield. L&N and SCL also jointly controlled the Georgia who in turn controlled the two West Point Route roads. So the Family Lines was not an encorporated entity but could be thought of as a shared marketing image. Beginning in 1983, L&N and SCL were merged as Seaboard System with the other Family Lines roads included as well. Seaboard System was already under the CSX Corp umbrella and about three years later Seaboard System changed its name to CSX Transportation.

86411 Milwaukee Road - oxide red double door.
Milwaukee Road - as built. Milwaukee Road received these cars from Pullman Standard in December of 1967 in this paint scheme. This group was initially assigned for loading Ford body panels on the New York Central in Monroe, Michigan. This roadname will be available in 3 road numbers. 86411 single car; 86412 2-Pack

86331 Missouri - Kansas - Texas double door single car, 86332 2-pack.
After a number of troubled years, the Board of Directors at MKT brought in John W. Barriger III, a railroad turnaround specialist credited with saving the Monon and doing wonders for P&LE, to whip the Katy into shape. One of Barriger's priorities was to update the freight car fleet. This batch of Greenville 86' boxcars delivered in 1969 was a direct result of that program. Like neighbors MoPac and Frisco, Katy was in a position to serve auto assembly plants in the Sun Belt and contributed cars to (likely Ford) pools.

87051 New York Central quad door single car; 87052 NYC 2-pack.
This batch of cars was built in 1966, classed by NYC as "104B" and initially assigned for loading by Chevy in Flint, Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western. This is another example of auto parts cars belonging to a multi-railroad pool assigned for loading (and unloading, for that matter) off home rails. Single car sold out. We are offering a single from 2 pk set.

87171 New York Central Medium Cigar Band Logo single car; 87172 2-Pack.
New York Central received these quad door cars from Pullman Standard in 1967 and assigned them for loading at an Oldsmobile plant in Lansing on the Grand Trunk Western. Unlike previous NYC 86’ cars, this group received the medium size cigar band logo. This roadname will be available in 3 road numbers.

Union Pacific post-1970 86 ’ quad door boxcars.
Union Pacific received their first cars of this design from Pullman Standard in 1964 in the paint scheme reflected in Bluford Shops #87091 and 87092 (now out of stock.) In the next 6 years, changes were made in UP’s painting standards. Most notably, the UP shield was changed to read “UNION PACIFIC ” with “RAILROAD” eliminated. In addition, the UNION PACIFIC in the middle was changed from black to red and the size of the reporting marks was increased considerably. The “Automated rail way” map remained but was joined by ACI tags and shortly after by consolidated stencils. The placement of data and various warnings was also changed. This would remain the standard paint scheme for this class of cars until 1983 when brown cars with small shields began to appear. These cars will be available in 3 road numbers. 87191 Union Pacific post-1970 single car $29.85; 87192 2-pack $59.70.

86191 Western Pacific single car, 86192 2-pack.
WP had a large Ford plant on line at Milpitas, California and forwarded parts from Midwestern parts plants to this facility. Since this group of cars was part of a large multi-plant pool, a number of WP cars could be seen moving parts between the South and Midwest as well.

Western Pacific - 2nd version 86 ’ Double Door Boxcars.
Western Pacific’s Pullman Standard built auto parts boxcars were delivered in the “Distribution Dividend” scheme (see Bluford 86191 and 86192) in 1967. As these cars came due for repainting, they received this scheme. WP had a large Ford plant on line in Milpitas, California obliging them to contribute cars to a pool including many other railroads and several auto plants in the Midwest and South. This run will be available in 2 road numbers.

87051 New York Central -- Click on photo for previous Bluford 86' Boxcar releases still available.