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since I'm a kid, at least still in my mind:ballcap: , here's my top 5 box to hit, what's yours?

 

1- any kind of reefers

2- fbox / tbox

3- cpaa excess high red cherry

4- freshly painted gt with the cn url on it

5- csx waffle

 

I cant wait till the day they will make flat black boxcars..that'd be dope!

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I've paid my dues on the gnarliest ridged cars for years. So pardon the excessive "flat" designations.

 

TOP 5 "Haven't had the pleasure...yet"

1. UP flat (I STILL DON'T HAVE A UP FLAT. Lots of babyridges...not one flat. Strange hole in my fleet), other gaps include (flats) HS, HCGX, Frisco, DRGW.

2. TPIX (Tropicana) orange babyridge.

3. Any 86-foot flat.

4. BNSF Icicle reefer, Simplot, Lamb Weston, or Cryo-Trans flats. (Done the Cryo babyridges.)

5. Any rare shortline box I haven't hit yet, especially flats or babyridges.

 

TOP 5 "It was a pleasure"

1. Solid Colds (and one Solid GOLD).

2. Other reefers, by favorite color: blue VCY, green BNFE, yellow UPFE, red BNFE/BNSF, flat ARMN, babyridge ARMN (white UPFE, or WUPFE).

3. Western (or just non-local) flats: SP 850xxx, Golden Wests, SFLC 10-11xxx, MP (especially ex-Manufacturer's Railway 3-tone box), BN, BNSF, SSW, LNAC, BAEX.

4. Western (or non-local) babyridges: UP, MP, DRGW, WP, CGR, GVSR, Frisco, CRYX, BN, BNSF, ATSF.

5. Shortline or other rare boxes: NSHR, MSE, AMC, NAR, CQPA, BPRR, others I know I'm forgetting.

 

It's not much of a top 5 designation but I have to shout out rare types of cars with boring reporting marks: gray CSX insulated boxes, red/brown/supercrusty QGRY newsprints, old and crusty cars with classic logos (CNW Employee Owned, giant-logo ATSF, Helena & Southwestern, etc.) that were restamped.

 

The UP flat thing is killing me. Just bad luck: there's one in the yard, but we have to run that night, or it rained the day one was laid up, or I was out of town for the weekend and when I get back my homies are like "Guess what we hit" and I start tearing my hair out.

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Im not really a big box car fan.

you could say I think "out of the box"

 

top 5 most desired cars

-real off brand center flow ridged hoppers

-airslides, airslides, airslides

-lime green incobrosa covered hopper (im drooling just thinking about that one) wheaties or the giant "alberta" logo (more drool)

-black or beige csx sand cars -or- the beige covered csx hoppers (especially the ones that are still running the SCL or ACL logo)

-any gondolas (especially fresh paints or new builts)

-private greybellies or any covered hoppers in general with elaborate or rare paint schemes.

 

courtesy of fr8otech:

http://www.photodump.com/direct/freight0te...a_serve_031.jpg

http://www.photodump.com/direct/freight0te...ed_railfan2.jpg

^^gorgeous.

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1) BNSF ISCICLES (NEVER HIT ONE)

2) TPIX ORANGE (ONLY HAVE HIT THE WHITE ONES)

3) ARMN CHILLED EXPRESS (HIT)

4) CSX FLAT (HIT)

5) TBOX (NOT HIT, HAD IT IN FRONT OF ME AND LEFT THE YARD TO GO TO ANOTHER, CAME BACK AND WAS GONE!)

*6) AN OLD RUSTED SOLID COLD/ GOLD

 

HAD TO THROW IN THE 6TH ONE... SORRY...

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aside from reefers which we don't get in our regular spots..i think my favorite joints to paint out of what pops up..

 

1. golden west service flats ..they haven't been around as much

2. old cotton belts

3. maine and central..the white gilfords are nice and only pop up once in a blue moon

4. union pacific baby ridgies

5. southern "serves the south" joints...

 

nokl high cubes are dope too..the panels are super wide...various smaller lines like the weird orange chtt's and the general mills "gold medal flour" cars are dope too...

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Basically my wish list....

 

1. JACX or TFM (NAFTA) aluminum sided holyroller (not the regular TFM holy rollers, but I heard there is at least one floating around with multiple NAFTA logos and all sorts of wierd stickers on it)

2. rare short line gondolas... CBRY, YB, etc. especially different colored ones

3. Tropicana boxes

4. Any kinds of cars with metal plates welded on with the company logo

5. Basically any kind of privately owned cars with strange company logos and crazy color schemes....

 

Oh yeah and 6. Intermodals other than like TTX or big names, like BRAN, AOK, etc... really any intermodals but those are a treat.

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Guest rob deer

soo color mark

gvsr

cnw route rock restamp

upfe

green bn flat (i'll get you yet.)

 

honarable mentions

 

#6 wsor flat

toe

gmrc

mec

hs

lnac

eec's are nice

 

gotta start getting to them intermodals...

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Originally posted by Cracked Ass

...or I was out of town for the weekend and when I get back my homies are like "Guess what we hit" and I start tearing my hair out.

 

hehe i know totally what you mean. :hatred:

but hey lepthebeard i had in mind a freshly painted black boxcar, not an old rusty "i chill in the yard for 6 months and never roll" hs :crazy:

 

the solid gold car is by far the best car i've hit in my life. So lucky, I cant understand we didnt get caught it was in the day beside the mainline and people walking by were looking at us all that time. what would you do for a solid gold eh

also forgot that flat cnw at -34C in the snowstorm.. that was good too

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...the wanna be's..

 

...frisco flat...

...texas mexican...

...tropicana...

...soo box...

...csx flat (...i've painted hundreds of boxes and waffles, even a 86 footer...but i have never hit the regular csx flat...)

 

...the has been's...

 

...solid cold...

...chessie extended (original stamp)...

...seaboard waffle extended (original stamp)...

...tons of shortlines...but i love those saint mary's...

...the brand new NS extendeds two weeks after their build date...

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oh man.....good thread

 

i see a lot of people mentioning the TPIX line....i had the luxury of catching the ol' orange juicer in the hole one time for about 10 minutes....fucking miracle.

 

1. i want a lamb weston and/or simplot.....real bad.

2. havent caught a tbox yet.

3. i want an ashley drew & northern...they have these in my grandmothers town....but ive never painted when ive been there. (but this one is in my hands)

4. a big blue

5. an old yellow up flat

 

as a bonus although theyre not boxes...the kcs white autoracks....man those things are fire....

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favs to hit...(have more than once)

1.tropicana box (would rather have the orange ridgies)

2.chilled express's

3. up white flats (yeah those real long nice cars)

4. lamb weston

5. gvsr, upfe, cryotrans reefers

 

AND any old rusty far traveling cars that there are few of in my area. i like... SOO, WLO, IC, sante fe, UP, etc etc... i try to hit cars that we dont have alot of around here, and take is as "im doing good" if i dont see my trains again, because i know they are long gone.

 

#1 "yet to hit car"

BSNF icicle reefer.

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its pretty funny seeing what some people drool over.. certain cars to certain regions..

 

shit i want and havent got:

1) solid cold

2) any soo box

3) frisco box

4) western fruit express

5) chtt flat

 

dope shit i've got:

1) tons of icicle reefers..

2) upfe's

3) toe cars are real dope

4) i got this BAR flat that was real nice

5) big blue csx extendo height with the chessie cat.

 

kinda boring, whatev

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in no particular order...

Those NCLX Sclair hoppers, yummy orange black and white.

KCS articulated autoracks

Flat Rio Grande

Angelina & Neches River, I like those

Montana Rail Link

 

Much love to anything new, old or rarely seen.

And anything with old company logos

 

THERE'S JUST TOO MANY!!!

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top 5

1. chessie flat box

2. solid gold

3. tropicana

4. florida crystals box

5. upfe or csx extendo's.. i cant decide

 

wish list

1. flat gvsr

2. orange tropicana

3. grand trunk

4. soo line

 

for those with t-boxes on their wish list: save yourself the trouble, those absolutely suck to paint. looks can be deceiving... nice yellow boxcar but with big square ridges and a thick bar that goes across both panels as well as the door, not to mention a jacked-up door to begin with... those are #1 on my least favorite list.

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i would settle for any boxcar i ahve no real preference...but i would paint

KCS boxcars

OAR's old augusta railroad

ALM's arkansas louisiana mississippi

GOLDEN TRIANGLE's

MSE mississippi export

 

i would pick these for favorites

white flat crle's are freshthe ones with the champion logo on them!!

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have hit

1 tpix (tropic-ana orange baby ridge)

2 cracked out soo line boxes

3 vcy golden west baby ridge reefers

4 gvsr flats

5 csx waffle

 

want to hit

1 upfe baby ridge

2 up "we can handle it!" flat

3 GT super flat

4 solid gold/cold

5 southeren pacific hydro cushion flat

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DREAM LIST (cars i dont see ever)

 

1 TPIX , TROPICANA Orange flats .

2 UPFE , white or yellow .

3. Solid Colds .

4 Lamb Weston

5. Anything real odd , moscow and central , seattle and sourthern . etc .

 

 

FAV'S (cars ive hit that i liked alot)

 

1. BNSF Icicles

2. Tbox's , Abox (fuck rbox)

3. ATSF WAFFLES

4.MRL, TR , BR WAFFLES

5. Anythin non local thats old and rusty as fuck .

 

 

WISH LIST (cars i see around but not often )

 

1.OLD soo lines (hit but not many)

2.Fbox (never hit )

3. ATW's (hit but are sweet orangy colours)

4. KCS (never hit)

5. WLO or ICG dull grey waffles

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the funniest thing about this thread is seeing the shit on peoples wish list

and thinking to myself if i never see another one of those it'll be too soon. like a csx waffle, ugh...we have turned down missions because that is all that was laid up. yuck...but people will probably say that about me too. Like im sure most west coast cats feel the same way about gvsr's whereas they are a comodity where im at.

 

anyhoo!

 

wish:

-old orange tropi baby ridg

-old red white and blue bar with "state of maine" accross the top.

-T or F box (soon enough, they cant hide forever)

-Any 90's auto parts (ive got them with streaks and thro ups but pieces is what counts)

-Any GVSR or VCY box cars (preferably the right side under the "golden west service" logo.

fresh paint or new built coil cars

-those all black covered or ridged hoppers

-any new built coal drag cars, the nice shiny ones with flat sides and the big rivets

i could go on for days......

 

done (nothin special):

 

gvsr hopper

bnsf hopper (fresh paint)

solid cold/gold X3

MEC (gillford)

old school BAR with the logo.

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