Sargento Boxcar

[tom mann]

Sweet! Back to the drawing board!

[nscalesteve]

but I wanted to be the first to post a model of this boxcar.

hey... ! that is MY job to be the first with something like this... !
...why don't you go and weather some britches 
(if you find spelling errors you can keep them...)

nice car btw, well done...

[seusscaboose]

wth Tom, do you have a JOB?   It seems you're married and just had a little one.. but I'm not sure I believe it.

were were just talking about this car like five minutes ago!  how the H3LL do you get all this stuff done??   LOL   ;D ???

Tom Mann doesn't weather box cars... Box cars get Tom Manned!

[Robbman]

Changeout those Atlas trucks... at the very least the wheelsets.

[cv_acr]

Tom Mann doesn't weather box cars... Box cars get Tom Manned!

In Soviet Russia, car weathers you!

[tom mann]

In this weeks episode of Cody's Office, Cody says that they had to paint out the logos on this car.  How come?  Sounds like the same rules that governed privately owned cars bearing product logos (billboard reefers).

[3rdrail]

In this weeks episode of Cody's Office, Cody says that they had to paint out the logos on this car.  How come?  Sounds like the same rules that governed privately owned cars bearing product logos (billboard reefers).

That's right. The AAR forbids advertising of shippers' products on railroad owned or leased cars (cars in rr marks). Stone Container got by with 50 Abbeville-Grimes Rwy. boxcars a few years ago becuase it owned the railroad and several others, but agreed to not do any more cars. OTOH, I don't think Sargento owns the WSOR.

I got in hot water over this years ago. ITEL bought the Hartford & Slocomb and put a new shop on it. I went to the grand opening at which an HS car advertising the Dothan, AL, Chamber of Commerce was revealed. Came back to PSJ and promptly worked up an AN scheme for the Gulf County Chamber. The Railroad VP at the time asked the AAR for permission and was told NO!!! He then ratted on ITEL and they had to repaint their car.  >

[jbaakko]

Makes you wander about the Athearn cars and such, but since they're a model railroad based business, I think they get by...

Anyone have photos of the paint out?

[wm3798]

MR anniversary cars come to mind too, but obviously, they're not a shipper....

Lee

[Ryan87]

In this weeks episode of Cody's Office, Cody says that they had to paint out the logos on this car.  How come?  Sounds like the same rules that governed privately owned cars bearing product logos (billboard reefers).

pics of the patched car...

http://thundertrain.org/wsorBoxcar022609.html

[jbaakko]

pics of the patched car...

http://thundertrain.org/wsorBoxcar022609.html

Hey thanks!