Toledo Peoria & Western RR Boxcar Project Completed

 Greetings All,

Part two of the Toledo, Peoria & Western RR boxcar project has been completed. Part one of the project was reported in this October 9th, 2021 blogpost. 

Here are the original TP&W double door 50' RBLs from the original paint project. Also part of this project were a pair of brown NYC bay window cabooses for our unit coal trains.

An anomaly in the original paint project had seven double door RBLs and one single door boxcar sent to the Patti O Paint Shop. Four red double door RBLs and the one orange boxcar pictured below went to Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and three red double door RBLs stayed on my New York Central Layout. 

Since October 2021 Detective Inspector Sir Neal had been on the lookout for two more cars so each of us would have five cars for virtual operations interchange. True to form after much searching and crawling around under train show tables he found them. Here are the two newest cars just out of the Patti O Paint Shop.

TP&W 71026 is now ready for virtual ops interchange with the APRR as "the Duke" checks out the paint job.

The Atlas model came with metal wheelsets and has received Kadee #5 couplers. 

TP&W RBL #50572 is fresh out of the Patti O Paint Shop and is also approved by John Wayne who was starring as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.

The 50572 is another Atlas model that came with metal wheelsets and has received Kadee #5 couplers.

Both the NYCTL and APRR now have these four TP&W RBLs on their roster. The cars were part of the nation wide Per Diem Car program in the early 1970s. They seldom traveled empty with lessors finding them loads. The challenge will be to find industries that can ship and receive four cars like University Millwork.

TP&W 70126 is spotted at Berk Enterprises and is also in need of a virtual operations routing.

Terminal Warehouse & Cold Storage can handle all five cars at one time without off spotting any. 

Import / export traffic to and from Pier 16 is another possible shipper /consignee as it can handle all five cars at one time. 

In PCCM 92 the original three TP&W boxcars were seen being shoved empty into the new PC Richard appliance dealer that took over the NYC Water Street Freight House. The three will be loaded with appliances for Three Amigos Warehouse in Rock Ridge NJ which is served by Sir Neal's APRR.  

The two newly painted cars joined the previously painted TP&W cars at the PC Richard appliance dealer and make their PCCM debuts next weekend in PCCM 93.

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