InnerCityRebel Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Has anyone else heard about all the Railboxes getting repainted and restamped?I was told that they will no longer be in an existance soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 ouch...i certanly hope not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorc bcj Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 i'd believe it, i've painted lines that were easilya couple miles long worth of railboxes...we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KING BLING Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 They mostly got repainted like 2 years ago...this makes them more vulnerable because if you get one, it's one of thousands of cleans. Do the workers a favor and yourself in the process and avoid anything on Railboxes that is printed. But really they seem to be the most likely to get painted over anyway, so if you put in effort don't get let down....but what do I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SteelWheels Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 i cant imagine them re-painting the whole fleet. i still see a lot of old paints runnin. besides what about the ones they have leased to other companies. those are always old paints. i did see a set of the new ttx hi-cube rbox look-a-likes last week in the yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I haven't heard anything about this. Unless you're talking about the news that's two or three years old, that Railboxes have been getting fresh paint jobs, but are still Railboxes. I still see oldpaints, maybe 30% of the RBOXes I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razeagainst Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 most of the baxcars that pass through here are pretty well hit-up.... some older stuff, but mainly newer. Stamp-outs aren't uncommon, but that's just because people paint over their numbers.... If people would just respect the numbers, i bet paintings would run a lot longer, and chances of "repainting boxcar lines" wouldn't really be an issue in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KING BLING Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 If any of these responces were towards me - Yeah its that old news, nothing new or exciting...yeah there are a lot of the old ones out there but none the less the vast majority have new paint jobs and if the old ones are actually owned by Railbox (which many of the non-painted ones are not) I believe those are subjected to the same rule of buffing. I really don't know anything about Railbox itself becoming non-existant if that was the original intent of this thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SteelWheels Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 and if it was towards me, no im talkin about these high cube cars with a full railbox paint scheme but ttx reporting marks. i saw about 4 of em' together like a week after someone posted a photo here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 The new hicube RBOXes have TTX marks because Railboxes and TTX autoracks and intermodals are owned by the same company (last I heard). They are all "pool" cars, meaning anyone can grab them when they're empty, they don't get returned to a specific railroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cup 'O Soup Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 CN bought a buch and they stay unpainted and marked CNA.. or is it cp with cpaa?.. whatever.. Have you guys seen thoughs new GIANT TTX YELLOW BOXES? SO hot right now. They're the same car as CP's Big Reds, the 260 i think, but they're railbox yellow or very similar. You'll be getting some fresh 2003's in your yard soon enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike bibby Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 a good 30% of my entire fr8 collection is railbox, been doing them since 96..ive seen maybe 2 or 3 of my 90's railbox's between 2001-2003.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krowteN Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Originally posted by SteelWheels and if it was towards me, no im talkin about these high cube cars with a full railbox paint scheme but ttx reporting marks. i saw about 4 of em' together like a week after someone posted a photo here. the reporting marks are tbox, not ttx, mr. knowitall smartypants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROW RA Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 theres a few with the letters abox stamped on them. seen them in toledo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 ABOXes have an extra half-door to the left of the regular door, making the usual panel a rough go. They get around though. In fact, all the CNA-restamped cars with the Railbox logo that I've seen are ex-ABOXes because they have that extra plug door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porque Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 ...re-stamped rail boxes are usually due to the fact that the particular car has been sold to the other railroad...eventually these cars will be re-painted with the colors of said rail road...all railboxes are leased cars (the call letters end in 'x')...meaning they can go anywhere on any line...which is also why all the info gets buffed so much...it's like a rental car, the person recieving it may not know all the facts...bring tape and keep the workers happy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 Originally posted by porque ...re-stamped rail boxes are usually due to the fact that the particular car has been sold to the other railroad...eventually these cars will be re-painted with the colors of said rail road...all railboxes are leased cars (the call letters end in 'x')...meaning they can go anywhere on any line...which is also why all the info gets buffed so much...it's like a rental car, the person recieving it may not know all the facts...bring tape and keep the workers happy... the x simply denotes ownership by a company which is not a railroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Parker Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 Originally posted by Cracked Ass They are all "pool" cars, meaning anyone can grab them when they're empty, they don't get returned to a specific railroad. That's the joy...Next load, any road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deformatron Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 ive seen some of these new railboxes that yall are talking about i think. the one, i did a doubletake. it was a freshly painted rbox, same type ridges, same exact size and paint color but the reporting mark was like FBOX, or some other letter in place of R, and the font was slightly different. i also heard somewhere that all those grey IC's with new paint are just old RBOXes that were sold off. yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Originally posted by Cup 'O Soup Have you guys seen thoughs new GIANT TTX YELLOW BOXES? SO hot right now. oh yesssss... so hawt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mikro137 Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Originally posted by Cup 'O Soup CN bought a buch and they stay unpainted and marked CNA.. or is it cp with cpaa?.. whatever.. Have you guys seen thoughs new GIANT TTX YELLOW BOXES? SO hot right now. They're the same car as CP's Big Reds, the 260 i think, but they're railbox yellow or very similar. You'll be getting some fresh 2003's in your yard soon enough... yes the whole TTX thing is widespread as of now. around 99 rbx started to repaint cars as a sort of widespread rehab effort. some of this is spilling over , and some of it is just plain aquisition of rolling stock , getting the paint scheme that is relevent to the current market state. UP is doing similar things with the FGE line (solid gold/colds) in an effort to "rehab" the division. thus making everything nice and tidy. i guess :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Down in Atlanta, Railbox has contracted out work to company to repaint about 200 railboxes that sat in a local layup for a week or so, when me and my boy came across it, we had struck gold, I took mad flix of em, knowing that shit would be gone soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krowteN Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 HA - i remember when we saw them things too. something told me not to touch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I was defienently tempted to paint them, then thought about it and remembered about the Railbox buff in South Atlanta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
type R Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 i have heard of this but haven't really seen it take action as of yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snk509 Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 i seen a new design of a railbox roll by it was chunky.... fat ass ridges no way of bein painted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHUTMDOWN Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Ive seen some new t-box joint which are alot bigger & lower to the ground..same company...evenhad the web site..www.ttx.com on the car....!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snk509 Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Originally posted by SHUTMDOWN Ive seen some new t-box joint which are alot bigger & lower to the ground..same company...evenhad the web site..www.ttx.com on the car....!!?? yeah thats what i seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windixee Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 i had the pleasure of doin 1 of the 03 ttyx railboxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelofdeath Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 ive caught a good amount of the new tbox's and painted about 8 or 10. they suck! yeah they are new, shiny and the ones i seen, had 2003 manufacturing dates, but they are double beer bar. but if that doesnt matter, then they are cool. id rather paint a plain old railbox with a open panel honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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