1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment The end of steam and

The end of steam and the entire diesel roster from Centipedes and FT’s to C420’s and GP40’s – all in vivid color

Its story stretches from Pier 14 North River and the Poughkeepsie Bridge in the west to Commonwealth Pier Boston and Siasconset on Nantucket Island in the East

Jim Boyd Jim Boyd's motive power examination of the EsPee continues in the 1960s as the road introduces second generation power and a new paint scheme

Concludes coverage of the company’s diesel motive power fleet

Volume 3: The early second generation BB diesels are given a thorough look plus others

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment The end of steam 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