1950's FREIGHT CAR COLOR GUIDE - VOL 1: BOX CARS/Kinkaid-Donnelly Florida East Coast BNSF's Marshall Sub runs from

BNSF's Marshall Sub runs from Willmar

The Illinois Central Railroad

This material was shot over an extensive period of time

These films were taken during one of the South Shore’s darkest hours

1950's FREIGHT CAR COLOR GUIDE - VOL 1: BOX CARS/Kinkaid-Donnelly Florida East Coast BNSF's Marshall Sub runs fromIN STOCK AND SHIPPING 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, "box car red" was everywhere, but colorful new paint schemes were arriving and turning heads. It was the final decade of friction bearings and roof walks, and the ultimate years of stock cars, ice bunker