Love those Cabooses, lets see one of your Favorites

This tread just died...

Rusty

yup..did not last long until the kindergarten kids show up...

The Reading to the rescue! MTH Bobber (20-91184) and Weaver Northeastern (U2955LD), made in Northumberland, U.S.A.

Here are some of my favorites:

In order, they are

DM&IR steel side by MTH;

Lionel MPC N5C (I like the colors; the Rock never had them, of course);

Lionel PW N5C (my first caboose, received in 1955);

Alaska by K-Line;

C&O by K-Line;

And a GN steel side by MTH.

Reading fan,

Does MTH still make the Philly & Reading bobber? It would look good on my freight train with my MTH Reading T-1, # 2124, and K-Line's Reading smoking caboose.

FYI, I have some train photos on phototbucket listed under username kookooclock027.

Lee F.

Keith beat me to it...  Actually, I bought it after seeing SantaFe158's.  I went looking for a wagon-top B&O style, but all I found was the extended vision... Still love it!

This ones not bad, either...

Thanks,

Mario

Nice poster Mario - I like that!

I have a lot of favorite cabooses but here is one of the top choices.

The only caboose that I have is the MTH 20-91249 Montana Rail Link Caboose, which I guess makes it also my favorite.   Killian

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POW/MIA YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

Well, two of you beat me to it

That Lionel Lines CA-4 is probably the favorite out of the ones I have, but I have a couple others as well.

This one I believe came in 2nd place in the open class cubscout pinewood derby two years ago.  Probably one of the faster cabooses out there.  I think it was also the last pinewood derby car I built since my brother graduated to boy scouts right after that.

MTH Railking pennsy porthole caboose (I think it's an N5c?, can't quite remember).  Not the greatest picture, but it goes along nicely with my Lionel JLC Scale GG1

K-Line Conrail Bay Window (Conrail RR Police)

John,

I really like these two cabooses that you posted photos of.   Killian

VETERANS HOME - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

POW/MIA YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

Colorful paint jobs.

Pete

They aren't listed in the latest catalog but they are around. I think Nicholas Smith in Broomall has some. Check that Website or go to www.mthtrains.com and use the Product Locator. Use 20-91184. There are two different numbers on the cabooses: 90482 and 90485.

My bobber has white handrails. But the bobber in the 2005 catalog photo has cast-in red handrails. That may have been an earlier production run - maybe the original run. Keep that in mind in case one turns up.

I asked the guys in the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society (RCT&HS - www.readingrailroad.org) what color the handrails should be. I expected them to say, "Yellow," but they said, "White." Those cast-in handrails should be easy to paint with a small brush. 

Your T-1 really looks good. I'll have a look at your photos on Photobucket.

Choo Choo Charlie,

     I think that blue caboose was a limited run by Lionel. The L&C is a 35-mile short line in South Carolina, even though Lancaster and Chester are well-known places west of Philadelphia, PA. Search for "Lancaster and Chester" on the Web and it should turn up.

     I have seen that caboose at train meets in York and in Allentown.

I always get a kick out of showing this digitally altered image of an American Models caboose to my S Scale buddies:

Rusty

 Here is one my friend Rick repainted for me and sent it  

I think you call them quson or some such name. still it looks good and that is my G Scale Track He is also going to do the same for my G Scale in case your wondering  my G Scale is called LANGLEY PARK RAIL ROAD.

this started as a MTH CA-1 caboose which I modified to look like one of the Seaboard Air Line cabs:

I made new ends (no windows on the ends of these SAL cabs), added the rain deflectors over the side windows, and added Kadee couplers.  Our fellow forumite "Flanger" posted a "How-To" on this a while back and I used his directions for making the mods.

I've always liked the Slogans Seaboard used on their cabs:

My Favorite with interior and sleeping conductor. I have a photo of the prototypical sleeping conductor.

here are some pictures of my cabooses...................rogerw.

KD You certainly did a great job on that Santa Fe model.

Malcolm,  what can we say?  Whew - great job!

Darn Roger,  you've got the BEST of the best here!

Great thread!

Here is my caboose track. That green one is a long way from home

Cesar

This is a Penn Central N9 transfer caboose that I built. I used a Lionel PS-1 boxcar for the floor and chassis.  Scratchbuilt the cabin from Plastruct sheet stock.  Handrails are made from brass wire.  I spent about three weeks on it.

I asked about cabooses still in use on prototypes recently and found more than I hoped.  The tinplate manufacturers don't get far from the most common Class 1

caboose shells they can letter for a variety of roads, or the poor Pennsy and Santa

Fe shells that get myriads of foreign names of roads silkscreened on their defenseless bodies, so the only one of recent manufacture I have is an MTH side door severely kitbashed.  I threw up a lot of photos on a thread a couple of months ago? but all were kit-built, kit-bashed or scratchbuilt except for a few old brass Hallmark side doors on three rail trucks.  Two cabooses I have not yet built and want are the FEC/Great Western side door and the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine RR long combine caboose. No kits or built-up versions of those out there in boxes of any color,

or brass that I have heard of.... I do like cabooses.

Three views from the Caboose Convention held at Dallas, PA Penn Station, back in the late 1980's.

B&OBill

c. sam, thanks for looking at my cabooses. if my club members found out that i posted my caboose pictures, they would probably give me a fine!!! the reason is that i don't run any cabooses on my layout or the club's layout. i have end-of-train devices on some of my freight cars. i told the club members that the end-of-train devices is my modern day cabooses!!!........................rogerw.

I also love caboose's here are some of mine from the fleet!!

Here are my favorites:

Top row: Weaver brass, Weaver brass, Overland 2-rail brass

Bottom row: Lionel, K-Line, MTH

And here's a bigger one. The Descanso, Alpine & Pacific is a 2-foot narrow gauge railroad in a very large back yard east of San Diego. There's a fair amount of info on it online, just Google it. 

Boy I see lots of us love those cabooses and really have some nice ones. 

Below is posted my favorite work caboose as I have not seen others posted.  I really like the crane cars too.   They are in their familiar spot, a siding just the right length along side my scratch built round house.

The red engine is the Lionel 627 GE 44 ton switcher.

Keep them cabooses coming.

Charlie

One of my favorites from K Line.

While a version of my favorite caboose has not been made yet, I think the Lionel, UP CA-3 and CA-4 are among the best examples of road specific cabooses out there.

Pictured in front is the stock CA-3 with the additional added (Lionel) detail on top of the cupola. In the rear is the slightly modified CA-4. I had marker lights (Tomar) added and changed out the stock smoke stack for the scale smoke stack.

Charlie

My favorites are the Lionel PRR ones.  Here's a picture of a few.  

And a picture of two of the tougher ones (top shelf, center and left).

Here's my little oddball...a prewar N5 with a metal body, rivet detail and a smokejack. Someone fitted it with a postwar truck on one end, so it can serve as a transition car. It looks good behind my K-Line PRR A5.

Pennsy Class N8 I Rebuilt from a vintage Max Gray Import.

Bob