These are 2 of my own creations. The first two photos are of the first piece of rolling stock for our fictitious RR, the Great Northeastern RR.
The
The next 3 photos show the caboose for our Bungling Brother's Circus train.
Since the above photos were taken, I have added roof access ladders to the GNR caboose and marker lanterns to both models.
@Randy Harrison posted:These are 2 of my own creations. The first two photos are of the first piece of rolling stock for our fictitious RR, the Great Northeastern RR.
The
The next 3 photos show the caboose for our Bungling Brother's Circus train.
Since the above photos were taken, I have added roof access ladders to the GNR caboose and marker lanterns to both models.
Are these old K-Line/Marx cabooses you repainted? 😃
Andrew:
They are all-plastic cabooses by Kusan. Kusan made a play set in the 1950's/60's called the "Kusan Canonball" that happened to be O gauge. My brother and I each had one when we were very young and found out that we could run the freight cars as part of a train on our Lionel Christmas layout. I still use them on our O gauge layout at the end of long freight trains so that the caboose will not weigh down the end of the train. I picked up several more on Ebay. They are all plastic including the trucks and non-operating couplers. The car body cannot be removed from the chassis Therefore, I cannot light them or glaze the windows. The roof access ladders are add-ons that I acquired on Ebay. These were first attempts at painting and are not perfect. But they work well for me.
Here are a couple of my favorites.
These two stand out for me. The K-Line K613-8012 has smoke, but their smoke units had a reputation for overheating, so care must be taken.
The MTH 30-77263 Southern Heritage Bay has a silver roof, not white as in the MTH image, so is very striking in red and silver.
BN!
Here is one of my favorite cabooses. It is one of three brass Weaver Keyser cabooses that include two in DL&W paint in early and late schemes.
Nice, Earl. I’m looking for a DL&W Keyser!
Several recent acquisitions:
@Norton posted:A few years ago ai started to focus on NYC. These are few on the roster.
The most recent addition.
Pete
Pete,
I love your caboose collection. I'm a big NYC caboose fan myself.
Here is part of my NYC Caboose collection. Although some are not prototypical NYC designs, I'm very tolerant on my railroad.
Two of my favorite Lionel Bay Window Cabooses and an MTH Extended Vision Caboose in Pacemaker colors.
These are 3 Kline Cabooses. The Extended Vision caboose in the foreground is one of my favorite. Behind it is a Bay Window caboose.
The K-Line BW and EV cabooses.
MTH-Railking Bobber Caboose
Here’s one of mine
The Great Northeastern Railway's own caboose....
One of my favorites! I saw these frequently in Northern California "pool" service on the friendly Southern Pacific.
As I mentioned above, I was looking for a Keyser built Lackawanna caboose. I finally got one, made by Malcolm, and it’s a beaut. Here it is in an earlier Lackawanna paint scheme than Earl’s.
As many of you know, I love cabooses (cabeese?) and have over 60 of them. Asking which is my favorite is like asking who is my favorite child or grandchild - impossible to answer. I guess my favs are those behind whatever train is currently on the layout.
That said, here are a couple sample caboose pics from my accumulation. It just so happens that these three are some of my custom creations.
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A couple favorites. The Lackawanna 906, built by Malcolm Byrd and a Erie Dunmore caboose from 3rd Rail…
Tom
Nice, Krieglok, I had an HO brass Dunmore Erie, but I gave it to my brother, who has a really nice layout based on the Erie. Malcolm did a beautiful job with the Lackawanna.
Homemade Transfer Caboose.
Made from a junk flat car and caboose cabin. The first of many more homemade cabooses.
Charlie
@Artie-DL&W posted:Nice, Krieglok, I had an HO brass Dunmore Erie, but I gave it to my brother, who has a really nice layout based on the Erie. Malcolm did a beautiful job with the Lackawanna.
Thanks Artie. I searched for a 3rd Rail O scale Erie Dunmore for quite a while. Then within a week, I was able to obtain two!
I had a HO Dunmore a long time ago. It seems any Erie Dunmore, no matter what scale, is almost impossible to get.
Yes, Malcolm does fabulous work. He also built some Erie Dunmores in the past.
Great cabooses everyone. Sharp looking Bobber and nice build on the transfer caboose!
Tom
Before I got the accurate Lackawanna caboose from Malcolm, I used an RMT version, which was nicely lettered. As Randy mentioned above, it’s hard to separate the body from the chassis, but, with a little work with an Exacto knife and prying around the doors, they can be opened. I added working battery powered markers to this one, with a small slide switch on the bottom.
This started life as an undecorated Weaver Northeastern style caboose somewhat resembling a Pennsy N5. Weirton Steel acquired one of these for its scrap value but ended up putting it into service at the rear of slag trains headed to Standard Slag. I covered over 2 of the 4 windows on each side, applied home-made decals, and weathered the heck out of it.
George
From the northeast .......
Some favorites:
My Bay Window.
As several have noted, I can't decide so here are three tied in the top tiers:
MTH 20-91261
Atlas 6653-1
MTH 20-91130 (like at the Virginia Museum of Transportation)
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In keeping with the prototype, my railroad no longer uses cabooses...
I believe the correct name is “CabinCars” and I don’t really care for them very much there fore I only have a couple to share with you great folks here on the fabulous forum.
I did my most favorite caboose earlier, one from the 1990s.
But I model the late 40s, so I looked at my PRR cabins from that era and decided this Lionel N5b was the best. Nicely detailed and great paint work. Plus, this version of the N5 is just neat.
Now, I need to paint the handrails either black or a color to match the car to make it era specific (yellow handrails did not come about until the early 50s).
Last one that I built:
Speaking of Pennsy N5 "cabin cars", here are two postwar examples:
The current Lionel catalog, posted on the net. (Gotta get a hard copy), is my favorite of all time, for it offers not only the Great Western #90, but a caboose for it, although l don't think the GW owned that style. (0f the ten GW cabs pictured in a couple of publications, the FEC's were two of seven GW sidedoors, and the other three look like Burlington nondoors, and the closest to the Lionel version) They had two of the ex-FEC side doors that Brother Love crafted,, and those prototypes were sold to assorted short lines besides the GW. Have seen those FEC's in HO brass, but not 0.?? That not yet sold Lionel caboose just became my favorite Lionel caboose, and might be my only Lionel caboose, as the only MTH caboose l have is a bashed factory sidedoor.
Another Caboose I forgot about! A Cambria and Indiana caboose, equipped with air horns for long shoving moves. Detailed and painted by me…
Tom
That Cambria & Indiana is nice, Tom.
One of my favorites 
Another of my Homemade cabooses, a Bobber made from a junker Lionel SP style caboose. My favorites shift by the day and are usually the one I am running now.
Here is my Bobber in Yellow and the Lionel 8087 Bobber caboose, I like my new one better and now I have another Bobber caboose to go behind my Lionel General 4-4-0 engines
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