End of the week/weekend cabooses

Not 3-rail, but oh well...

My Reading caboose from my Marx 40's Steamliner Set...

Mike 

None of the suppliers make a caboose like the ones shown in vintage photos, so I made some of my own that do.

Gentlemen,

  Just finished up the 817 Caboose Black & Gold restoration this past week.  Very satisfied as to how it came out.

PCRR/Dave

Back in 1989, there was a Caboose Convention at Dallas (PA) Penn Station. Photo one shows the south side of the station, photo 2 the north side.

Unfotunately, the "I build my own" commenter's photo does not show.  I have shown mine on here, the few factory ones sharply kitbaashed .  ls "Brother Love" still cranking out cabooses?  I have such a long list of side doors, combines, and drovers' l figured l could never afford all of  them, but could start with a CM side door with curved roof cupola .

I’m somewhere around 70 cabooses in my collection right now but, two I’m particularly fond of are my Lackawanna Railroad and Atlantic Coast Line cabooses.  

Both are MTH Northeastern style cabooses that were detailed and lightly weathered by a train club buddy.  The Lackawanna was also custom painted and lettered prior to the detailing and weathering.

To be more prototypical, the ACL caboose should have visors over the windows but; I’ve had an issue with occasionally breaking those off the Lackawanna caboose and asked him to leave them off the Coast Line.

Curt

That's an awful lot of good looking cabwayincarbooses in this thread.

Tom Densel, do I spy a couple of kitbashed PC cabooses in your post?

Just had a caboose coup moments ago....bought an expensive book, "Waycars of the CB&Q", that l have lusted after since published. This prairie road had, l've heard, the largest menangerie of combine, side door, and drover cabooses, more than even the MP, whose caboose book l have.  I have built three rail models from it.  Did the Rock Island have a fleet similar to these competitors?  I have not seen photos of RI cabooses of these types. Is there a Rock book on early cabooses? My favorite std. gag. road, the D&RGW, had only a few, early drovers, as did the Salt Lake. The Colorado Midland was famous for it's side door beese.  Many of these are in HO brass , but DIY in three rail.

Work cabeese count?

coach joe posted:

Tom Densel, do I spy a couple of kitbashed PC cabooses in your post?

Yep!  The N9 transfer caboose was built on the frame of a Lionel PS-1 box car.  I built everything from the frame up.  The N8A started out as an Atlas O NE-6.  I performed some surgery to get this guy.  PC sure had some interesting equipment.

Tom

Cabooses "in action" in situ...FrankM

my contribution to end of the week/weekend cabooses......

Long live Lionel Lines....

Recently purchased a couple of non-cataloged MTH Montour, 41 and 48,  cabooses.   SW9's are custom paint Atlas models. 

Black Bonnet AT&SF

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Now - see below what happens when an evil Hi-Railer is left alone with one of these? They're steel, tough and cute as a button - and at least have an air of realism, so...

The green is a bit too light, I know. I may repaint one day, but I added window "glass" and I do not want to bend  tabs anymore to remove/protect it. Maybe a tidy darker paint road-name-area name patch job and re-decaling.

BTW - the end windows in the cupola are just black decals cut square, as Lionel didn't actually cut any holes on the sheet metal stamping for them. An easy, surprisingly effective fix.

even though you defiled a PRR cabin car in NYC colors.....I like it. And my 2472 has windows in the ends of the copula.

My MTH cabooses

Cabooses. 

Some winter projects

Steamer posted:

even though you defiled a PRR cabin car in NYC colors.....I like it. And my 2472 has windows in the ends of the copula.

"Defile a PRR cabin car in NYC colors"? Oh, I'm still trying to compensate for the Williams scale die-cast Hudson that they sold lettered for Pennsy a few years ago. Painful.

You know, I do seem to recall glancing at one of these cabeese at a show, with cupola end windows. I didn't actually stop and look. I guess you have the fancy-schmancy one.

Maybe I should re-do the lettering for PC; I do have some decals. 

"Maybe I should re-do the lettering for PC; I do have some decals. "

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I won’t lie, I don’t know a ton about it. Still, it might be my favorite caboose. I just love the look of it.

you have a beautiful Prewar Caboose that has had Postwar trucks added.

I am thinking about having a Caboose Motel on the new layout so I can get all my caboose’s on the layout.

                                              my caboose motel...

                                            with a recreation hall...

                               caboose's and campfires...  looks like fun...

Bruce