{"id":417,"date":"2011-06-28T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:58:00","slug":"boxcar-week-i-a-steel-boxcar-from-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Boxcar Week I: A Steel Boxcar from 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today for review we have a wonderful vintage item decorated for the home road of American OO pioneer Howard Winther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bergen & Essex boxcar 456 dates to 1939. As in the model was built that year; in the photos it is clear that it is marked NEW H.W. 4-39. There are only two obvious commercial parts, the Scale-Craft trucks and the Nason brake cylinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this is scratchbuilt but it is very close to the proportions of a Nason boxcar. The doors are very nice and look from the photos to not be die cast but rather the ribs were pressed into a flat sheet of brass. Note also the very nicely done hand pressed rivet detail of the car sides and the perfect, smooth paint job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The lettering is all by hand except for the logos which look to be printed. Note the handmade couplers as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who would not want one of these in a train on their layout? Click on either photo for a better view. Thanks again to the Winther family for these photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue to Part II<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today for review we have a wonderful vintage item decorated for the home road of American OO pioneer Howard Winther.   Bergen & Essex boxcar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vintage-scratchbuilt","category-winther"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/100_8592.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}