Love those Cabooses, lets see one of your Favorites

This is my Lionel Northeastern Caboose that I painted, decaled & weathered.

I'm kind of partial to this 50's vintage Walthers PRR N5b.

Of course I have to give a nod to the CNJ as well

This MTH premier line Southern Pacific caboose is my favorite.

This thread is getting better and better. We love cabooses so here are a few more 'favorites'

ANY Santa Fe caboose warrants consideration - nice detail here

This handsome MKT was available for the JC Penny's Geep back in the 1990s

An early Lionel favorite in NYC that puffed smoke profusely

missed this one while I was napping...

Here are some of mine. All Atlas.

This ATSF is from the Trainman line.

This is an old 4 wheel caboose. My only modification is the addition of a 3 rail coupler.

It still uses the original plastic wheels and axles because I cant find metal ones that fit right.

This is another old Atlas caboose. I added 3 rail couplers. Popped out the plastic axles and popped in metal ones. Painted the body ends yellow and glued in some windows.

Thank you CSXJOE!!!!!  ha ha!  Kindergarten's RULE!

Here's my latest "customization" that I do believe is becoming my favorite!

Before and After:

Oh, that's a product from a trio of caboose makers --> me and myself and I. 

Here's one I'd like to see in O scale:

My Rich Yoder C&O wood cabooses.

Not exact, but pretty close.

http://www.lionel.com/products...neID=&CatalogId=

Nice looking work, Tom Densel.  Thanks for sharing your skills with us.

Nice thread with some nice photos here. The love of cabooses will never grow old. End of train devices are nice, but I miss cabooses. Here's my favorite.

I like this one because my father traveled to work in South Bend as an electrical engineer in 1955 when I was 10 years old. That year I received a ZW transformer for my birthday.

Two of my Favorites. First one is a a custom I recently made for our club I made using a Weaver Northeastern Caboose, and the 2nd one is custom run from 1996 made by Weaver.

I have the Lionel L&C caboose even rode the line from Chester to Lancaster.

But here's my favorite caboose in my collection.

Here are some of my favorites:

I have been dragging these two around the layout lately:

I built the ND out of an old QC kit and the N5 is an old Walthers kit that was built by someone else some time ago. It arrived from eBay with the antennas all mangled so it was a bit of a refurb/refresh project. Both are set up for two rail and tolerate my Atlas switches on my hirail layout. The body mounted couplers certainly help.

Here are some of my cabins.  K-Line on top, MTH on bottom.  Ron

This little beauty arrived last week. I love the finish and the detail on it, and it looks great running along with bacon scented smoke drifting out of the chimney.  I'll probably fit a heat shield inside of it soon though, as the side gets rather warm if the smoke unit is on for long. 

I'd like to make one of these.

Here are two of my favorites.  The first is a caboose I scratch built in high school that I re-lettered to fun behind my Weyerhauser Timber Co. Shay.  The second is the caboose for my Hanukkah train.

A repaint I did for my Reading equipment.

The bottom one is my favorite:

Below is an early attempt at using an air brush.  Original caboose was a Lionel smoking UP.

Don

Boy this is a tough choice to Make! decisions... Decisions... de-cisions!

My favorite....

Here is my absolute favorite: 

Here is a repainted favorite for my fictional Liberty Belt Railway: