Can anyone ID this car?

Not sure but I would say it is a bobber caboose.

Lee Fritz

Pretty sure it's not a bobber - not easy to see at the angle, but those are 4 wheel trucks.

Here's the TA diagram.  Brake wheel is off, but the photo is roughly 30 years after the design in the diagram.

I'd say you tagged it Martin. What are the reporting marks?

Very interesting, and certainly old fashioned. OSHA would have a cow about those end steps.

That's what's a little odd - looks like M.W. 406905 on the end, but I can't read the side at all at the angle of that photo.

Do you have any literature that goes back that far for such a car??

Looking at the 1916 classification for cars list under Tool list the Ta as M.W. so that begins to make some sense.

No idea how many of these they had....

If you want to see one of these in person, the Indianapolis Children's Museum has one on display on its lower level.  It's in the same room as the Reuben Wells - a unique steam engine built to climb the Madison Hill (steepest grade on the PRR).  I did a google search, but couldn't find a picture of the car in the museum.

Edit - found picture (had to search for caboose and not tool car):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0eb...E/s1600/DSC_0005.JPG

Despite the fence around it, you can walk through the car.

Definitely a PRR TA class tool car. You got it.

Martin

That photo is a treasure.

Wow...worthwhile to ask on this forum.  Good pictures and identification, and

a brass HO one, no less.  I have seen the Reuben Wells and that car, but

don't model Pennsy, so, in spite of the side door, did not give it a lot of

attention.  No hope there is a brass O scale one....Bobbye Hall missed that

one...

An interesting car for sure! Thanks for the pix Martin!

Simon