SIDE DOOR CABOOSES, MTH, ETC.

They look really great. Thanks for sharing with us.

It looks as if your car shop has been mighty busy trying to keep management happy.  Are all the windows in the fourth caboose for passengers or is that an executive caboose?  You've done wonderful work on these.

Joe

Nice work!  Very interesting cabooses...I like them all.

coach joe:  I like combine, drover, and side door cabooses and this is a combine

caboose similar to a number used by shortlines for passengers in mixed trains. This one is relatively short....I have photos of a long one used by a Texas short line, the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, and Sabine that I think was done in brass in HO, maybe by Bobbye Hall of Hallmark in Texas. I have previously posted on here a photo of a whimsical ultra long one I built.  They took many forms and I have recently posted on here models I made of some of the coaches with added cupolas a few roads like the Burlington ran.  (there is/was an O scale kit offered for that Burlington car by one of the owners of La Belle..dunno if it is still available)

Two of the last passenger carrying caboose roads were the Great Western in Colorado and the Louisville, New Albany, and Corydon in southern Indiana.  Beebe and Clegg's commonly available book, "Mixed Train Daily" has a chapter in the back

devoted to many of these shortline cabooses.  This book is a treasure trove of all kinds of weird and wonderful shortline rolling stock that the authors were lucky and smart enough to go out, ride, and capture on film and in print before many disappeared during and after WWII.  Another book often found in  train shows is William Knapke's "The Railroad Caboose".  It pictures that Burlington combine caboose and many others.

I have been trying to find a posting I thought I made with photos of a LaBelle

combine coach kitbashed with a cupola, and can't find it.  I keep finding other

creations I have posted...also found some of Brother Love's, including a IC

(order door) side door he built, and other very interesting efforts...

Yes it is. Go to the La Belle Wood working website, and you will see that CB&Q "coach/caboose" kit. It is available in both HO and O scale. The hard part now is, finding those correct PSC brass trucks for the O Scale car. 

Very good looking cabooses! Craftsmanship at it's best. Malcolm

Very nice.  I like all five with a cupola, but particularly your third and fourth ones.

Nice work!

These are great works of engineering. Thanks for sharing! Terry

Neat!!

I like all sorts of cabooses, the unusual ones are great!

Ralph

I apologize for "rerunning" these photos, but hope some had not seen them...I was

paging back through old photo postings by title, but they don't come up chronologically, so I can't find the kitbashed LaBelle coach caboose I was looking for, but found these.