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Circa 1921 - Red/brown - inside door with spring lock. Circa 1922 - brown / gold lettering with blackened wheels. Circa 1922 with original box.
Circa 1923 - brown / white, nickel wheels, below shows end view of this car.
I'm not sure what the back story is on this car, but I've seen two of them or could be the same one twice? Circa 1923 - orange with black lettering
Circa 1923-25 - Yellow/Orange with gold lettering. Below is same car from end. Note trucks punched for journals but none were ever added. Close up of side and lettering
Circa 1924 - Special boxcar made for Wanamaker Dept. Stores. Circa 1924-1925 - Light brown with black stamping, trucks are punched but no journals. Below is end view of the above car. Circa 1926, unusual chocolate brown. Circa 1926 - Pale green with black rubber stamping, brown roof. Journal trucks held onto body by split cotter pin, Couplers attached with hollow rivet. The example above has a red roof, the one below has an orange roof. Here's a brown one with the later trucks circa 1926-27. Can't tell you much about it except it's the only one we've seen with New York New Haven and Hartford markings.
Circa 1927 - Dark green with white rubber stamping. Journal trucks held on by hollow rivet. The pictures of this car above and below is the only surviving example of this car we've seen. Circa 1927 - 1928 - Pale green with black rubber stamping. The example above is from 1927 with standard couplers, the one below has the snake pull couplers from 1928. Any all Ives freight cars with snake pull couplers are very rare.
Circa 1928 - White with black rubber stamping. Red roof and snake pull couplers. Below is the same car from the bottom, note the snake pulls and unusual coupler hangers. Circa 1928 Circus Car - Boxcar for Circus Set. Note that all 1928 IVES bodied boxcars are rare, Circus cars are even rarer and this one is rarer still with "THE IVES RAILWAY SHOW" markings. Circa 1928 - Pale green with red roof - American Flyer body. Numbered 20-192. Circa 1928-1929 - Yellow with cadet blue roof - American Flyer body. Numbered 20-192. Close up of each side - American Flyer bodied box car.
Circa 1930 - Yellow / cadet blue Lionel bodied boxcar. |
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