Tail End Tuesday

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nicely composed photo Mark.

Thanks Dallas that was a good shot I was getting chased by a bear God Speed

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   " The boss has caught Jeter sneaking a sample at the rear of the truck."

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   " The boss has caught Jeter sneaking a sample at the rear of the truck."

The way Jeter is resting against the truck, he may have had more than just a sample.

Gene

Happy Tail End Tuesday, folks!  Here are a few tinplate tail end cars from my collection.
1- Ives caboose.
2- Ives caboose.
3- Ives observation car.
4- Bing observation car.
5- Bing observation car.

@WP- Beautiful classic cars WP - thanks for posting

Don

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Based on an off-Forum suggestion by a chum, here is the First Annual Razorback Traction Co. Caboose Conductors' Conference and Convention! 

Mitch

Looks like there's just about enough room for us:

And we're loaded for "beer!"

@Don McErlean posted:

@WP- Beautiful classic cars WP - thanks for posting

Don

Thank you Don!

Have a good TET all! God Bless America!

Observation car Bunker Hill by MTH Premier ran at the tail end of my New Haven Railroad passenger train this week.

MELGAR

Well here are a couple of old rear ends (like mine ) The first is American Flyer set #301 I believe.  The cars are enameled but with no numbers just a black and gold decal.  As best I can determine the baggage, Pullman, and observation date from 1938-39.

Next is a an even earlier train pulled by the Lionel 152 in dark green which could be as early as 1917 although it was offered through 1927.  The enameled cars are a Lake Shore Gondola also available from 1917 -1927 and the #801 caboose, lettered WABASH/RR/4890 with a maroon body and cupola and black roof available from 1917.

So there you are, tail ends ranging from 85 to 106 years old, well that makes me feel better, my hind end is only 79!!

Best Wishes

Don

@Sitka posted:

Have a good TET all! God Bless America!

Excellent skill shown by this photographer .   Nice Mark.  God bless us all.

A couple of TET shots of the MTH Ives White Set.

Steve

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Excellent skill shown by this photographer .   Nice Mark.  God bless us all.

Thank You Dallas God speed sir!

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A couple of TET shots of the MTH Ives White Set.

Steve

Very nice looking model Steve .   Never saw one of these before.  Good looking group on the platform.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   A frosty rear!

MANY  TAILS.......................... .............for this TET.                  Only two belong to trains.......TOP LEVEL- Nativity Train Angel Caboose .......BOTTOM LEVEL -  Polar Express kids on its tail.     God speed to everyone.

Patrick, Dallas while it may be the first day of summer it hasn't been hot enough yet for me to long for such frosty rear ends.

@coach joe - Well mate, if your a hankerin for hot, come to Texas...it was 106 yesterday!!

Best Wishes Don

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   A frosty rear!

@Dallas Joseph posted:

MANY  TAILS.......................... .............for this TET.                  Only two belong to trains.......TOP LEVEL- Nativity Train Angel Caboose .......BOTTOM LEVEL -  Polar Express kids on its tail.     God speed to everyone.

You guys telling us winter is coming? Nice photos God Speed!

My new MTH UP bay window caboose arrived yesterday:

@coach joe posted:

Patrick, Dallas while it may be the first day of summer it hasn't been hot enough yet for me to long for such frosty rear ends.

Frosty rear ends will be showing up before we know it Joe.    ( Judy is already talking about setting up an additional train for Christmas )

@Sitka posted:

You guys telling us winter is coming? Nice photos God Speed!

Mark.........tomorrow the daylight hours will begin decreasing.

@Don McErlean posted:

@coach joe - Well mate, if your a hankerin for hot, come to Texas...it was 106 yesterday!!

Best Wishes Don

Don I don't need that hot but our usual coastal 90 degrees in May would have been preferred over what we got.

Dallas I don't any Christmas talk nor talk of shorter days and frosty rears just yet.  But if you want to talk frosty beers I'm listening.

Wow, it’s tail end Tuesday, another very interesting thread with lots of great pictures and videos, and today I’m showing a caboose, new in the box made by MTH, Buy War Bonds, it’s so unique. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry - Wow that is one neat caboose!  Is that a new or current product or old stock?

Best Wishes

Don

From MTH website (2004):

@Mark V Spadaro, Wow thanks for sharing a picture of the actual War Bonds themed caboose made by MTH. I purchased this caboose new and just never took it out of the box and it’s been in my train room for many years, along with many other cabooses. @Don McErlean, thanks for the kind words. (The real observation car is from our recent trip to Alaska, this car was at the end of the White Pass and Yukon train ride)

Have a great TET All!! Some PW Lionel tails

Boston & Maine #104647 is a Northeastern caboose - model by MTH (20-91088, MSRP $54.95) from 2002.
MELGAR

A new arrival courtesy of Trainland and MTH.

Bob

Morning activity for the TAILS on this TUESDAY.

May the  OPPORTUNITY  FOR  EXCELLENCE  be with you today .

Well hello T.E.T. fans, I had to get up early today to finish some outdoor work before it started to heat up.  It is forecast to go to 102 this afternoon and 104 tomorrow.  Yes-sir-eee its summer in Texas!

Well today I have a neat acquisition just received last weekend.  You know Marx made any number of pieces of rolling stock liveried for real railroads, however their single largest customer (by far) was Sears.  So when asked, Mark would produce a run of various types of cars or locomotives labeled "All State" the Sears brand name.  Now obviously these cars / locomotives were more scarce than regular RR livery, so collecting them is fun but you have to work hard to find some of them.  Today I have one that fits the "tail end" mode.  Its the Marx Allstate work caboose with a searchlight.  Made in 1955 only and hence one of the more scarce varieties, here is the Marx #4588 Tuscan, Allstate work caboose with searchlight.

Best Wishes everyone, hope your week is going well

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello T.E.T. fans, I had to get up early today to finish some outdoor work before it started to heat up.  It is forecast to go to 102 this afternoon and 104 tomorrow.  Yes-sir-eee its summer in Texas!

Well today I have a neat acquisition just received last weekend.  You know Marx made any number of pieces of rolling stock liveried for real railroads, however their single largest customer (by far) was Sears.  So when asked, Mark would produce a run of various types of cars or locomotives labeled "All State" the Sears brand name.  Now obviously these cars / locomotives were more scarce than regular RR livery, so collecting them is fun but you have to work hard to find some of them.  Today I have one that fits the "tail end" mode.  Its the Marx Allstate work caboose with a searchlight.  Made in 1955 only and hence one of the more scarce varieties, here is the Marx #4588 Tuscan, Allstate work caboose with searchlight.

Best Wishes everyone, hope your week is going well

Don

Nice unusual Marx piece.

Steve

Happy TET, a std gauge Waterman Loco Works Canadian Pacific

@Steve "Papa" Eastman - Thanks Steve for you compliment.

Don

@stangtrain posted:

My new MTH UP bay window caboose arrived yesterday:

Stan - good lookin’ tail end! Thanks for posting.

Lionel die cast w/ smoke.

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday:   Bathing in the afternoon sun.  

My newly acquired "Polar Express Era" (2006) NYC tail end:

She goes well with my ALCo 0-6-0 saddle tank switcher and, as the last photo shows, she has two pickups so she runs "flicker-free" over most center rail interruptions. She has a design flaw resulting in three of the four wires  being nearly or completely broken off due to flexing at the solder connections when I got her. I had to rewire the pickups with the wires coming up through the rivets to prevent this flexing. Though it may look like it, the wires do not contact the inside axle of each truck and even if they briefly do around a tight curve, the plated axles are quite smooth and shouldn't wear through the insulation. Now she shines "through thick and thin."

@Bill Swatos posted:

My newly acquired "Polar Express Era" (2006) NYC tail end:

She goes well with my ALCo 0-6-0 saddle tank switcher and, as the last photo shows, she has two pickups so she runs "flicker-free" over most center rail interruptions. She has a design flaw resulting in three of the four wires  being nearly or completely broken off due to flexing at the solder connections when I got her. I had to rewire the pickups with the wires coming up through the rivets to prevent this flexing. Though it may look like it, the wires do not contact the inside axle of each truck and even if they briefly do around a tight curve, the plated axles are quite smooth and shouldn't wear through the insulation. Now she shines "through thick and thin."

A job well done