Premier B&A Caboose Special Run; Reservations Now Open!

Here’s a nice one that @Dave_C did that we’re going to emulate.

https://ogrforum.com/...ms-brass-nyc-caboose

thanks!

- Mario

This one please.  This is great as Lionel will never get around to making one.  20 years since Kline produced the Berkshire and two releases by Lionel, no caboose.

With correct trucks of course this one done by @Dave_C

@superwarp1 posted:

This one please.  This is great as Lionel will never get around to making one.  20 years since Kline produced the Berkshire and two releases by Lionel, no caboose.

I’m in for one of these.  Long over due.

-Brian

I’ll certainly going to give it a look when the artwork is all up. The best looking and correctly detailed is probably a 2 rail brass model by NJ brass. With a little work you can adapt Atlas trucks to it. The downside is the price. I have one in bare brass to paint and decal into a B&A. Below is a NYC one.

I do like the Williams as a starting point. Thank you Mario for digging up that old thread. I have one of those to redo. Plan to add queens posts and truss rods.

Lionel’s is pretty correct design wise. It’s just the clunky details from the 80’s that still exist today. One of my Rutland conversions. I re did the handrails using square brass stock that fit the holes in the platform and then bent up new rails using phosfor bronze wire and soldered them on. Replaced the brake staff with piano wire and a Precision Scale brake wheel.  Tichy grab irons were also added.

Tell me about it!

I have a Berk that’s begging for a tail!  Oh, and a Kadee. With a metric ton of milk cars, it’ll be a nice train.

Hopefully, two road numbers.
thanks!

- Mario

I’d be in for that, will need one for when the new Berk comes in from muffins.

@Dave_C posted:

The best looking and correctly detailed is probably a 2 rail brass model by NJ brass. With a little work you can adapt Atlas trucks to it. The downside is the price.

I do like the Williams as a starting point. Thank you Mario for digging up that old thread. I have one of those to redo. Plan to add queens posts and truss rods.

Lionel’s is pretty correct design wise. It’s just the clunky details from the 80’s that still exist today.

I suspect you'll likely see this premier tooling with the appropriate B&A lettering.

A "decent" looking model aside from the incorrect truck spacing. I don't see MTH fixing this.

I find the truck spacing less obnoxious than Lionels oversized grab irons and stack.

Rick, is that the diecast version ?    The trucks don’t look that bad on it.

@Dave_C posted:

Rick, is that the diecast version ?    The trucks don’t look that bad on it.

Plastic. That ones a bit older. I'd have to look up the item# . They were offered again a few years ago before MTH went up for sale. I also grabbed a P&LE version at that time.

Nothing is perfect in 3rail,  I’ll be happy just to have a caboose with B&A stamped on the side.

Everyone’s in for two road numbers, right?

I am…

Yes Iam in.

I've been waiting for a B&A wood caboose. Will pre-order one of these.

MELGAR

Great to hear from you Mel.

@CentralFan1976 posted:

Everyone’s in for two road numbers, right?

I am…

I would hope so but what's the minimum order point?  50,100,200??

@RickO posted:

I find the truck spacing less obnoxious than Lionels oversized grab irons and stack.

No so with me. The strange almost-beyond-the-ends-of-the-car truck spacing on some of these NYC cabs was always a definite No Sale. The "old" Lionel model still looks pretty good, though I too wish that they would improve the railings and stack.

Or not. Those things are tough - I dropped one from the layout (4 feet) to the floor (not concrete, but not carpeted, either) and the only thing that happened was that the body popped loose at one end - snap-on tabs - and the railings/ladder needed repositioning. Back on the track in 5 minutes. Maybe those "finer" details would not be totally a step forward....

Oh i thought you were talking about the Baltimore & Annapolis RR. lol.

I would be in for one. I have reserved a Sunset B&A H10 and, should it get made, I'd like to have a caboose ready for it.

~Chris

Here’s my B&A that came with my first purchase into Ogauge. The rest is history.

I just got off the telephone with Rich at MTH Electric Trains and it looks like we will be offering a Premier Boston & Albany 35’ wood-sided Caboose.  We are going to be working on artwork soon.  Thank you to @CentralFan1976 (Mario) and many of you for your interest in this project.  Please post more photographs and detailed prototype information to this thread.  Together, we will make it happen and deliver it to you.  Thank you!

I am in for one maybe two if multiple cars numbers will be made.

Count me in.

@JR Junction Train & Hobby posted:

I just got off the telephone with Rich at MTH Electric Trains and it looks like we will be offering a Premier Boston & Albany 35’ wood-sided Caboose.  We are going to be working on artwork soon.  Thank you to @CentralFan1976 (Mario) and many of you for your interest in this project.  Please post more photographs and detailed prototype information to this thread.  Together, we will make it happen and deliver it to you.  Thank you!

Awesome,  thanks JR Junction and MTH for stepping up where Lionel wouldn’t

I'll buy one.

Count me in

@TRAINMANTIM posted:

I am in for one maybe two if multiple cars numbers will be made.

There will be two road numbers available.  The total cabooses made will depend on the demand.  Incidentally we are doing two New York Central cabooses with surviving restored prototypes in Central and Western New York State.

In for both road numbers. Thanks!

@JR Junction Train & Hobby posted:

There will be two road numbers available.  The total cabooses made will depend on the demand.  Incidentally we are doing two New York Central cabooses with surviving restored prototypes in Central and Western New York State.

Mario said y’all were in the worx on the NYC’s,…..so definitely count me in,….thanks to you guys and Mario for making this happen!…..appreciate the effort!..

Pat

@RickO posted:

Plastic. That ones a bit older. I'd have to look up the item# . They were offered again a few years ago before MTH went up for sale. I also grabbed a P&LE version at that time.

Do they have interiors?

@BobbyD posted:

Do they have interiors?

Yes, they have been run numerous times. Sometimes in a Premier box and sometimes in Railking but all are identical save for colors and lettering.

Pete

@BobbyD posted:

Do they have interiors?

Pete beat me to it. For reference, those two cabooses I posted photos above are 20-91282 & 20-91596..

There's also a figure in the cupola which is hard to see in the photos.

Thanks Pete and Rick!

I'm in for one at least.

More than ready!

@JR Junction Train & Hobby posted:

There will be two road numbers available.  The total cabooses made will depend on the demand.  Incidentally we are doing two New York Central cabooses with surviving restored prototypes in Central and Western New York State.

Are these offerings not yet up on your website? I haven't popped over there yet to have a look as I saw this topic late last night. You can definitely count me in on B&A and NYC for sure. I need more cabooses for both, that is a big for sure.

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Are these offerings not yet up on your website? I haven't popped over there yet to have a look as I saw this topic late last night. You can definitely count me in on B&A and NYC for sure. I need more cabooses for both, that is a big for sure.

Not yet, artwork is still being discussed, with research being done by a bunch of us, Including @Dave_C @CentralFan1976 and @JR Junction Train & Hobby  So it could be a while.  Mario started this thread to gauge interest which seems to be there.

I am in for one, maybe two.

@superwarp1 posted:

Not yet, artwork is still being discussed, with research being done by a bunch of us, Including @Dave_C @CentralFan1976 and @JR Junction Train & Hobby  So it could be a while.  Mario started this thread to gauge interest which seems to be there.

Ah, thanks Gary. Great minds working on this effort. Ironically, when I was at my LTS this weekend, Tony had one of Lionel's B&A sets that was mail order only(that was written on his ticket for it). I think that this was one of the conventional sets from maybe late 80's or very early 90's(not sure as I'm no expert). Maybe he'll have it at York.

One if only if if is EASILY convertible to two-rail.