Caboose cupolas rides

colorado hirailer posted:

Today I am up to 3 different narrow gauge caboose cupola rides, with a seat in a 4th  Wonder if either SW Colo . roads or the one west of Denver has caboose cupola rides? The two recent were combine cabooses....my kind of cavoose!  Hog heaven.

What the devil is a "cavoose"????? 

 

Hot Water posted:

colorado hirailer posted:

Today I am up to 3 different narrow gauge caboose cupola rides, with a seat in a 4th  Wonder if either SW Colo . roads or the one west of Denver has caboose cupola rides? The two recent were combine cabooses....my kind of cavoose!  Hog heaven.

What the devil is a "cavoose"????? 

 

 

Its half the length of a cabeese!

This was on the PM 1225 out of Howell, Michigan a couple of weeks ago.

And I looked at a lot of brass On3 models of both the side doors and the EBT caboose.  (did get the story on why the EBT is in limbo) Resisted temptation to buy them and put them on 3 rail trucks.  Brass cost helps that decision, and with the brass Pagoda Jct. Combine caboose.  Is THAT caboose still in existence?  Would like to ride that cupola!

Cupola rides are, in my experience of riding tourist RRs, awfully rare. It almost never fails that parents practically sprint with their kids to the hack and toss them up there. I think in at least 80% of all train rides with cabeese I've ever seen, I've seen a family of young kids stuffed into the cupolas like sardines.

I was quite upset once, when an old retired conductor went to well-known RR museum looking to ride in the cupola and encountered that exact sight. Someone told the family (who's kids didn't seem to be aware of where they were, they were so young) of this old gent's past and you'd have though they were being asked to give away one of their kids when someone suggested maybe they could put one of their ankle-biters on their lap to make room...

Swinging up on a moving caboose is a great sensation that, now, almost nobody will ever get to experience.  It is difficult to describe, but if done properly it is somewhat like a grandmother gathering you up in her arms.