Caboose interiors

C&O caboose. (Mullet River model) 

Interior/porch roof detail.   The roof assemblies/cupola can be removed, to view the interior. 

The only interior part this kit did not have was the stove/heater.  Though there is a roof jack/smoke stack.    I used min-wax golden oak stain as the interior finish.  Assembled with white (Elmer's) glue after the stain was applied to all pieces, still in the card stock. 

Here are a few interior pics I took of NKP 1047 at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum. 

Thanks Mike and Bryan.

The NKP caboose pictures are perfect and just what I needed.  I had seen several images of the outside of the caboose but none of the inside.  If there were more from the other end of caboose inside that would be great as well.

As far as the C&O, I was looking for more of finished interior to model my caboose interior after including the colors.  Hoping there might be some more C&O caboose interior images out there.

Thanks!

Mike

Here's a couple shots from Shorpy. Don

How many of you recognized the "brake sticks" on the table?

Also known as brake clubs?

The C&O Historical Society archives have some interior pictures for the Magor steel sided cabooses. The layout of these cabs were pretty similar to the wood sided cabs. Go to:

https://archives.cohs.org/

and search for caboose interior (all words) and it should display a number of pictures. Just look for the ones that say its a Magor cab. If you really want to get more detailed info you can contact the C&OHS and see if they can dig anything up.

I took the pictures below in 1977 at Cass I believe and only have prints.  So I took some poor pictures of the prints with my cell phone. This woodsided cab was probably repainted from red to yellow in the late 50's or early 60's. The interior colors may have changed at the repainting but I sort of doubt it.

Ken

Big Jim:  "Brake sticks" or "brake saps"?  Suppose depends on the road.

@mark s posted:

Big Jim:  "Brake sticks" or "brake saps"?  Suppose depends on the road.

Y'all will call them what you want, around here they were "brake sticks". I have a unused one in the corner of my bedroom if any of you get out of hand! 😉😁😁😁

Not only were "brake saps" used to tighten brake wheels, but also for unscrupulous brakemen and conductors in extracting a "dollar a division" from hoboes !!

Brake Stick!

Hi Bryan,

Just started working on nkp caboose and using your interior pictures you posted here as a guide.  I don’t see a bathroom, was there one?

Thanks,

Mike

Good question.

Bathroom question? Yes.   Right door this picture.   

The small closet(bathroom) matches the odd-ball window on one side of the caboose.  Bottom picture shows the narrow bathroom window.

Bathroom window is visible right of center this picture.

I am really looking for bathroom details specific to nkp caboose.  I am just not sure where to put it in mine and the rough dimensions.

Thanks!

Mike

Giving this a bump. Bryan submitted some great pictures above of the 1000 series nkp caboose at mad river that I have been using.  I just can’t see the interior for the  other end of the caboose with out the stove.  Hoping some one might have an image for this or a floor plan for the caboose.

thanks!

nice pics guys, when I worked for the SP, I used to hang out in the cabooses all the time whenever we would have a little down time.  I never went and took pictures of the insides for some reason, guess I always figured I'd always remember what they looked like.  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, that's a good one.  Good thread and some great pictures and to Big Jim, I remember the brake sticks too, I had one at one time but someone decided they needed it more than me.