Do You Have Any Cabeese Under Glass If Not, what Is your Favorite Caboose Model?

Not counting work cabooses. I think N5C was always my favorite style. Its the portholes. Then I played around with this plastic axle & wheeled RI Trail Blazer bobber. Even gave it lights, one metal axle, and a homemade pickup roller made from a ball shaped copper bushing. Its now my favorite.

This is my baby that I custom decaled.

And I'm currently trying to have one of these 3d printed. But it's harder than it looks.

I am in the process of building an MLB Themed layout. I love MTH's MLB Caboose. It is a work of art.

PRR N5-C focal orange paint

K-Line woodside caboose

I'm a postwar Lionel O27 fan as most of your are probably painfully aware by now. Here is my favorite cabeese...it is a modified postwar Pensy style cabin car that one enterprising fellow repainted the roof on, and added some underbody detail to. I think it looks great, and the gray roof adds character. Besides, as we said in HO...there's a prototype for everything...

Sal Ross sold me this beauty on the OGR Buy/Sell forum in 2007.

I do not have any under glass.  These are my first (for professional reasons) and second favorite cabeese.  Matt

Although I have a few cabooses in O gauge, none are for display only. The photo shown is my only caboose that is literally under glass. It is an N scale brass Key Imports N5C caboose with kadee couplers installed. I have run this caboose from time to time, but mostly it is for display.

Very interesting display, Im a fan is nice too....

Thanks Adriatic. Yeah, that fan is real old and it still works great too, just have to watch the fingers when it's on.

PRR N5-C (this one is 1/160 scale)

I got this little gem off Da Bay! IT's so unique and interior detailed that I don't have the heart to swap out the couplers!

This one I got at the LAst O scale convention in Parsippany, NJ. IT too is really unique!

Amtrak - On Layout - No Glass

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I have one under glass (well, plexiglas).  It's off for the pic.

I have to say that this Manistique & Lake Superior RR is my favorite, custom cupola and paint job by Mike Packard.

Here you go:

K-LINE CABOOSE

K-LINE CABOOSE

Another K-line caboose

K-LINE PRR N5-C IN FOCAL ORANGE

ATLAS TRAINMAN CSX BAY WINDOW

(2 rail version to be converted to 3 rail)

To big for under glass, notice the Ogauge caboose alongside, but this big old hand made Southern woodsided caboose with complete interior detail is my favorite.

Joe

Since Pennsy cabin cars seem to be underrepresented...

Tom

This is my favorite style MP caboose. I saw many while growing up here in Austin. My mom took this photo.

My favorite caboose, on my layout, was made, many years ago from two "bobber" bodies from AHM sometime in the 1970's.  I hacked the bodies apart, left the cupola off towards one end, used three windows (of the four that were on both bobbers) spliced the two car body parts together, made a floor for it and installed a pair of three rail trucks.  That caboose is not under glass but, rather, on the layout where it sees service whenever I run C&NW trains.

One other really favorite (actually two) are the two brass Milwaukee Road rib-side, bay window cabooses that I got from Weaver a few years ago.  Did a bit of extra detailing, particularly on the interior, and they, also, are generally found bringing up the rear of my freight trains.  Since everything on my layout represents 1950, no freight train can leave the yard without a proper caboose for the five man crew to inhabit.  Weaver only offered two road numbers for those cabooses, otherwise I would have purchased more.

I also have a Mullet River, Milwaukee Road woodside caboose kit, but I hate to say it, that one is still in kit form.  Partially assembled but still in the box, after several years of procrastination.  That is certainly the most complex kit that I have ever tried to put together.  BUT, someday i'm gonna get "a round tuit"and get it finished.

Paul Fischer

I can attest to Fisch's comments about Mullet River cabooses, I finished a C&S one

some time ago, and posted the photo, but I am going to redo it.  The roof is in

three parts to make the interior accessible.  I will either glue three parts together and

figure out how to make it fit, or kiss off the interior and glue all together.  For now I

am posting my favorite type of cabooses, side doors, combines, and drovers, all kit or

scratch built by somebody and fished out of show junkboxes.  I, too, will get around

to restoring these..have one done, not in the photo.

K-LINE NYC BAY WINDOW

Another N6-B

Amtrak - Very colorful paint scheme - Fantasy paint ???

No glass and mistreated but still my favorite.

I have this Lionel NP Caboose along a Lionel with an NP GP9 that is displayed behind glass in a cabinet in my TV room.  

Love em all but my fav will always be be the Lionel SP type caboose. The better ones with lights and ladders, 2 couplers. And of course the tool box ones. Those are the ones I grew up playing with.

Another MTH NYC caboose with new style trucks

I prefer pheasant under glass.  I find cabeese a bit too crunchy.  

Here is one of my favorite: