From the “Real Steam Era Freight Cars” list is this photo of Erie RR’s 28th Street Yard in Manhattan, c. 1956. Zooming in on a the upper left hand corner, the Frisco boxcar in the “Ship IT on the Frisco!” logo is apparent. https://nycrecords.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_5b2f02a6-319e-4e6e-aa75-510b22b9c955/ I can’t make out a number and I’m more familiar with the pre-war SLSF rolling stock. Maybe a PS-1 boxcar?
Chris, that is a really cool photo. From the automobiles and the missing roofwalks on several boxcars, it looks like the photo was taken in the 1960's. What a busy place!!! Did you notice the diner in the lower left that's an old streetcar or passenger car or something like that? The tracks appear incredibly close together...or maybe it was taken with a zoom lens that compressed the image. At the large freight station above the Frisco box car and at the Lifschutz freight station are several pairs of boxcars that are extremely close together. Maybe they have bridge plates between each pair of cars so they can unload them all at the same time. Anyway, a very interesting photo.
Dating the photo to the early 1960's is a fair assessment. Automobiles have prominent fins, so that puts the photo timing some time after 1957 or so. Erie merged with D.L.&W. to form Erie-Lackawanna on October 17, 1960. Erie signs on the freight station are very prominent, so the photo timing could be slightly before that. However, we all know "fallen flag" marks remain years after railroad mergers, but I would bet something as significant as a freight station would have new corporate identity fairly soon. Lifschultz Fast Freight is quite another story! They were a forwarder who apparently coordinated with railroads to carry freight to terminals for loading into trucks for local delivery.
