Showcase Your Cabeese

Great collection of cabooses.

Especially, the S.P. RR. Police Caboose and Police car, which are nice touches!!!

Ralph 

Matt:

Very nice collection! I have to ask if they were production paint jobs or did you do the decorations? They look far better than the off-the-shelf cabs I've seen.

Neil 

I like a red caboose and the Santa Fe herald on my Northwestern Pacific layout works for me.  Those are some nice cabooses pictured.

How about some photos of caboose from my trip up north this summer. The first one is from Georgia, not sure what city, the next few are taken at the Red Caboose Motel outside of Strasburg PA.

Lee Fritz

 How about a couple of model cabooses? The Philadelphia & Reading woodside caboose and a Monopoly caboose, and also a Reading bobber caboose.

Phillyreading:

Who made that Reading bobber? I've been looking for a bobber that the windows are arranged like that so I could add a letterboard - the MTH and Atlas ones have the windows too high up. 

That's a Lionel bobber caboose from a few years back, maybe around 1995? I had to add some weight, over a pound, to it to keep it on the track as it jumped as it is extremely light weight.

Lee Fritz

Scratchbuilder,

I love your UP caboose.  Sadly...here's a real one that is rotting away at the train depot in Petaluma, CA.  It is UP Caboose 25884.  I photographed it a while back.  It's still there.  Matt

Well I have one unique one.  When Wellspring owned Lionel, my son in law got this for a Christmas present since he did work for them. Wish I knew how many were produced. 

Who made this one, and what is the catalog number.  I really like it and would love to find one to go with my SP locomotive.

MTH, # 20-91053, from their 2001 vol. 2 catalog.  Not really prototypical as it's actually a Santa Fe-style caboose and not an actual C-40-3 that the SP had in that numbering scheme, but for some may be consider it close enough since it's also steel-sided and both used the offset cuploas.

Click here to see what the actual SP design looked like from that series:

John,
I didn't realize that it wasn't really prototypical.  I also heard that the SP had very few of them in the silver paint scheme...may a half dozen or so.  Matt

Matt,

For what it's worth, the only correct Southern Pacific C-40-3 caboose that has been offered in 3-Rail, was the Sunset/3rd Rail version. They are truly stunning, and appear occasionally on eBay.

Thanks.  I'm not worried about prototypical, just what looks good to my eyes, and this caboose has some nice looks.  The locomotive I'll be pairing it with is a Cab Forward.

Here's a Manistique & Lake Superior caboose that was made for me from a Lionel steel side caboose.  Notice the sloped cupola.  This was found on the Wabash and its subsidiaries, of which the M&LS was one.  Mikes Michigan Rails did the customizing work & paint. 

My collection of cabin cars.

Tom

Old picture of mine, but a favorite.

CA-3

Two I am partial too.

Few More Pennsy N8's plus a N6a

Here are some PRR cabin cars (Pennsy speak for "caboose").  I took these photos 14 years ago in and around Steubenville, OH.  I think these are N5's.

The first is is an N5C.  The second one looks like another N5 variant (maybe B).  These are located in Central PA up on US 11 & 15 near Bucknell University, if I recall correctly.

Here's a Pennsy N6B under the train shed at Harrisburg, PA.

Here are a few of mine.

The first is a Weaver "northeast" caboose.  It looks a little like a Pennsy N5, but it really resembles (to my eye) a Reading prototype.  In any case, a similar one is going to be eventually repainted in Weirton Steel green and markings.

Here's an N8 on the caboose track at Weirton Junction.

Sorry about the out-of-scale snow leopard, but here are (left to right at the bottom), an N5C (yellow roof) and two N6B Pennsy cabin cars.

George

Old Kusan, painted/weathered/detailed years ago - old Atlas plastic trucks, which everybody hates but me:

And just for fun: old Lionel stamped-steel "scale detailed" caboose with some upgrades of my own:

Is that your car inspector?

Here are some of mine....

Neat little Pennsy bobber. Did you scratch build that?

A couple of Boston & Maine " Buggies" . We have a Laconia 30 ft center cupola wood car. These were rebuilt with steel sides in the 60s and survived until the end of cabeese.

In this photo , we are on Central Operating Lines O gauge club layout in Ronkonkoma with a Boston and Maine Caboose hop. The engine is a MTH S-4 Alco switcher and the Laconia car is bringing up the markers. The Buggy in between is a MTH UP CA class wood car that was modified to represent a 1907 40 foot wood car as it would have appeared in the early 1950s. I did this before MTH released the UP car in the B&M scheme

Weathered Atlas O Trainman caboose...

Here are mine.

Yes, I'm afraid she does have that job. 

But her sister is worse.  She's the queen of the layout.  Just ask her...

George

Awesome, 'curve.  Just an impressive display of Pennsy cabin cars.

George

B&O, naturally....

That's what I thought, thank you!

Saw a article on them recently in Railroad Model Craftsman, maybe?  Lots of them had second lives after the Reading disposed of the fleet.

George

From the Ambroid Kit... 

Fun project.   Now a favorite.

KD

MTW waycar with Atlas trucks.