Don’t know why but they’re my favorite too.
I have the milk, refrigerator, Baby Ruth, and operating ATSF. I also have the Erie which is on the line at the moment. Down on the bottom level there’s the yellow horse car and the green James Gang set outlaw car. Even though there are other types of cars this length, they just don’t look as well proportioned as the boxcars do. The 3 I most want are the red SP, the operating NYC and the operating WP.
There was an operating WP?
I want one now! 
I thought WP was only in the 6464 series cars.
Thank you @mersenne6 and @pennytrains
Hard to find without at least 25% of the feather rubbed off, especially near the doors.
They sure look 
(Lionel’s version left off one of the prototype’s leading truck axles.)
@Eric1946, your photography is outstanding! Can you tell us a little bit about how you take these wonderful pictures?
Thank you for your kind comment. All my toy train photos are staged on a plywood sheet 38” x 48.” Each scene or setup is put together much like it would be on a movie set or theater stage, with the various elements (track, ballast, ground cover, trees, buildings, etc., added individually.) In setting up a scene, I refer mostly to railfan photos taken in the 1940s and 1950s. (Don Ball, Jr.’s book “America’s Colorful Railroads” provides me with many good ideas on how to arrange the various elements in a scene.) The backdrops are photo enlargements mounted onto sheets of foamboard. (Most of the photos were taken by me.) The scenes are photographed outdoors under natural light. (On overcast days, I stage winter scenes.) It sometimes requires 40 or 50 takes from different camera angles and rearranging the various elements until I finally achieve the results I want. After each photo session, everything is packed away.
Over the years, I’d accumulated quite a few photos of my various toy trains taken on my “diorama stage.” Outside of a few which have appeared in Classic Toy Trains magazine, most of them have never been shared. Being able to do so now on the Trains.com site has been a continuing source of satisfaction for me.
Natural lighting. That makes sense. What kind of camera are you using?
I’ve been impressed since your first photo in CTT! 
Believe it or not, it is a simple little Sony DSC-H3 digital camera. I just set it in the “auto” mode and don’t have to worry about exposure, depth of field, focus, etc. Again, it often requires multiple takes from different angles and with adjustments to the various items in the scene until I get the effect I want.
The 1666 and it’s O Gauge 224 brother have always been favorites of mine. And they’re offspring, the 675, 2025 & 2035.
Yes!
