Hi everyone,
I have a caboose that has seen its better days and I would like to save it and use it for something on my layout. It's a bay window design. I'm thinking a small railroad office. Have any of you Forumites done anything with a caboose? I'd appreciate your feedback.
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I'm using an old caboose for a model of a backwoods cabin. That was not uncommon in these parts. There are still a couple of them in my area. One is still on its trucks and on a short length of track. The other is on a concrete block foundation and is pretty beat up. Also, there was a candy/ice cream shop in one a couple of small towns North of me.
I put two together to make an O gauge rail bus of sorts using a diesel power unit but a bay window caboose wuld make a good line side shack, tool storage shed or what ever.
I drove A dump truck in the PGH. area and I saw A caboose used for A scale house office at A gravel sales business. I also saw A caboose used as A cabin up near our camp near Titusville PA. Choo Choo Kenny
I have an old C&NW cab that I'm converting into a "work shop" in my yard area.
I'll try to find a picture. Back four or five years ago when I had a railyard, I had a "maintenance services office" that I made out of a caboose I bought at TCA meet, missing one truck, for five dollars or so. I't looked good and it was a fun little project.
Bubbas hangout for the HoBos. Weathered the old Lionel caboose up, added some signs like BYOB Bring your own beans. This is all the photos I could find of it for now. The layout has been taken down now but will be used in the new future one that we are building. Nick
There is a train collector in the Portland area that had a surplus caboose shipped to Maine, lifted off the rails, put on a flatbed truck, taken to his home, and had a crane lift it into his back yard. Some neighbors complained, but the city did not and he now has a really cool backyard getaway.
You could replicate this.
I use one on my layout as a hobo shack also. I'll have to look for a photo.
A couple of pictures.
Make it a retreat in the woods......
You could also put it on a short section of track, put a chain link fence around it and call it a small park.
I know of a Owner of RMT that has one for an office too!
Hello Harlleyhosue • Great backyard caboose in the woods.
I have to ad this to my bucket list, but I have to get it approved by the Building Dept.
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