1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment then it had to be

then it had to be a Mohawk or Mike

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

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

Concludes coverage of the company’s diesel motive power fleet

1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment then it had to beJames 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