Brownville and Ashland Boxcar

Received this really nifty looking 50 foot high cube boxcar a week ago that I purchased through our friend Luc. His railroad, the Brownville & Ashland, heavily featured the paper industry, as evidenced by the pine tree graphic at the right-hand end of the boxcar. This boxcar will help me to modernize the freight equipment here.

The boxcar is posed at the Tri-State Paper recycler loading dock.

Produced by Prairie Shadows and exclusive to Home Shops, this boxcar is one of only 50 of this particular model paint scheme produced.

I obviously haven't done any weathering on this one yet, but that's certainly on my list and I should get to that soon.

Now some real world stuff:  Brian Smith sent me this picture he took on a nice stormy looking day last week at the yard in Fort Kent, Maine.

Brian informs that these logs will be sent on to Twin Rivers Paper Mill in Edmunston, NB.

Brian also sent this picture of a car loaded with logs for the mill

An interesting detail is that the car has "PROCOR" stenciled on the sill

And in the 1:1 world around here in Sarnia...

 CN GP38 7517 pokes it's nose out at the Cargill grain elevator on Friday, June 28th, 2024.

And here's a look at the freighter Burns Harbor as it passes beneath the Bluewater Bridges on Thursday, July 4th, 2024.  It's pretty rare for this lake freighter to pass by here, as it usually seems to stay in Lakes Superior and Michigan.  I would have liked to have seen it coming down from Lake Huron, but missed it by an hour or so when it was downbound to Cleveland a day earlier. 

1000 feet in length, Burns Harbor is one of the very largest boats on the Great Lakes.  On it's trip north from Cleveland to Superior, Wi. we can see the original brown paint on the Burns Harbor as the black is wearing off.

Have a great week everybody