Ebay suprises!!!

Good price for a smoker!

Great find!  Is that a Lionel?

Nice deal!

Glad it made your day, Popi.  Every now and then, one can get lucky with a good eBay find.

Congratulations, great find.

Congrats! I have one and smokes great.

Bob

Always loved that paint scheme!!  Great buy!

Alan

popi, nice find and the caboose looks in great shape.  A great addition to your trains for sure.  Thanks for posting photo.

Steve, Lady and Tex

Im headed to Wisconsin on thur to visit my brother. we are going to Chicago great mid west train show on sunday. Ill be looking for a CP, CN or BC Rail Loco to go with my grain train. when I get it all put together, Ill post pics.

That one is from the Canadian Pacific limited set from 1989.

Don't forget to stop at the North Freedom Railroad Museum.

I think your stack is missing the T top.  But nice caboose.

You never know when a great deal comes along.

I saw that, and considered buying the SD40 that came with that set,

but after closer inspection found out that that locomotive is a cheap

MPC loco, with plastic trucks and plastic frame. very light weight with

no pulling power.

Is there suppose to be something on top of the stack???

Run it for about 5 minutes and check to see how warm the side of the car is. If this is a plastic caboose its common for the side closest to the smoke unit to melt.

Otherwise good deal.

Pete

I think the T-stack is, indeed, missing.  See link of similar Lionel item...

CP Caboose

Shouldn't be too much of a problem.  The style of caboose is common enough that a replacement part should be easy to obtain.

Nice deal, though!

KD

Guys,

I realize that people are trying to be helpful, but there's a lot of wrong information presented here.

1) The matching locomotive (6-18203 from 1989) has none of the low-end features you list. It has dual Pullmor motors, die-cast metal trucks, a metal frame and Magnetraction. "Old school" -- yes, but "cheap" -- no.

2) It doesn't look great, but there wasn't a smoke stack top designed for this particular caboose. It came from the factory just like your photograph.

TRW

I don't think its been run that often. It was basically brand new in the box. There was some shelf dust on it, looked like it was displayed. other than that its in great shape.

Oh Ya! Ill have to chck the box again, other wise Ill make one to fit. that should be an easy fix. Thanks KD!!

I must have been looking at the wrong pic of The CP SD-40. It had plastic side truck frames.

Its not so much how much track time its got on it but how long you run the smoke unit at one time as the heat gradually builds up inside and can result in this:

Pete

TRW

your right on! I found this on Lionel web site.

http://www.lionel.com/CustomerService/ReplacementParts/index.cfm?doAction=productPartFilter&number=6-19705&productID=B96B43FF-68C9-49CD-90771CA598EB7C10&CFID=46204415&CFTOKEN=6778db3ae04ea4e8-97DDA7D7-F36D-FDFC-D659A6C7A56C3FA5&jsessionid=8430e9c448dbf8abbe98795d755063e2a645

Well I don't want that to happen. Think Ill pull her apart and see If I can put a heat shield inside her.

Popi;

I was thinking the same thing.

I would cut open a soda can and space it half way between the wall and the smoke unit.

Also, I was thinking the Top of the stack may be missing due to temp of the area.

A plastic stack will certainly melt. A metal one will be very hot so keep kids fingers away.

I did say "I think" not "you are" because I wasn't sure.  I personally haven't seen a smoking caboose without a T on top, but that doesn't mean it wasn't possible, just something Popi might want to look into, which he did and found out there wasn't one.

Well, I for one stand corrected!  After seeing the exploded parts diagram from Lionel, it's clear that they had no 'T-Stack' on this model.  There ya go!  Your ebay deal is as good as you first thought!  Attaboy!

I keep hoping for one of those..."deals"...a special find.  Ah, well, York is just a couple weeks away.   Just maybe......!

KD

I thought this was the only CP Rail Extended Vision caboose (6-17640) with a working smoke generator...

...This one was listed for $95 on eBay. It came out in 2002.

The caboose in the first picture looks like it was from a CP Rail set from 1989. I think Lionel made 2 CP Rail "smoking" cabooses and the one in the first picture isn't one of them.

Congratulations on a great buy.  I've just looked on the net, and a new-in-box 6-19705 caboose is going for $80 and up. Though Amazon have one new model for only $70. 

Nicholas Smith Trains has the same caboose for $65.

I was surprised to see that is in fact a smoker. I'm not sure if it has lights or a detailed interior though.

That's still a great price ($24.99), however, lights/interior or not.

You always find something good on ebay. Enjoy your caboose!

Tin 

           Popi,

  Have a good trip. If you happen to spot a KW transformer cheap and in good shape I am lookin for one.

      ChoochooBob

I had a K-Line smoking caboose that melted its roof after about a half hour of running on the layout.  I don't run any of my cabooses with the smoke unit running.  The Lionel smoke unit may run fine but then .......

Joe

I like that Idea, enjoy a soda and reuse the can for my caboose.

We train guys know how to "think green"!!

yours also looks like it has an antenna running across the roof, which mine does not have.

I see them for $100 and under. how much you wanna spend???

Mine did also come with lights.

I got the same smoking caboose on ebay with Western Maryland markings for 10 bucks and it works perfectly just a lucky buy