Tail End Tuesday

For this Tail End day, I'm showing the only Lionel PRR cabin I have left.  I sold the others because the type was not used by the Pennsy or it had a fantasy scheme.  This cabin is perfect for my late 40s layout: a PRR N-5b with no keystone.

My only decision for this car is whether to paint the handholds/vertical corner grabs the same color as the car body or black.  Chrome yellow started to show up on Pennsy cabins in early 1949 so I can go either way.  However, the yellow on the marker lights needs to go.

Well its the last Tuesday before Christmas so the Lionel pre-war caboose's decided to come out today to say Merry Christmas.

First is the 4 wheel 807 first available in 1927 this red/green version from the early 1930's

Next the #657 available with red roof and cabin beginning in 1934

Then the "big" tinplate series, the 817, available since 1926 but this version red/red was near the end in 1942

Finally, the "Ives" crossover lithographed design available from 1933 -1942 but never catalogued.  JLC didn't like lithography and really didn't like the Ives cars he brought across the company acquisition (When Lionel acquired the Ives Corp) so they were never allowed in the Lionel catalog and just used to "fill up" low end sets available through the dealer network.

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays

Don

I took this photos with my iPhone in Tilden NH back in 2018.  I thought I had lost them in the Great Phone Crash of '20 but after 4 hours of searching computer files and Forum Posts I found them in the Real Trains Forum.  These cabooses (cabeese) were on some tracks next to a building with this door.

I don't know anything about these roads and never researched them so I don't know the ownership or use of these cabooses or the disposition of them since 2018.  I wonder if this is the place Ron snuck off to. however it seems as if he was in and around Conway.  I can't remember which vacation this was so I'm not sure if Tilden is close to Conway or closer to Maine.

B&M for Mel

Two Bangor and Aroostook and a Maine Central for Johan

Painted Lehigh and New England, lettered for Merrimack Valley

Some Christmas tail ends .

@stangtrain posted:

My 74th birthday present to myself arrived 11/27 but I waited until 12/16 to open the box as it was my birthday! Always nice to have a present to open on your birthday. Lionel Vision Line Talking Caboose:

Happy  Birthday YOUNG man.

@coach joe posted:

I took this photos with my iPhone in Tilden NH back in 2018....

....I wonder if this is the place Ron snuck off to. however it seems as if he was in and around Conway.  I can't remember which vacation this was so I'm not sure if Tilden is close to Conway or closer to Maine.

Have not been to this place in Tilden, but it is right off of I-93 so we will check it out next time we go up there.

The reviews of the place say it is an old Boston and Maine Freight Depot.  The building is now used for large parties and weddings and is not open to the public.  Very few comments on the caboose inventory, but looks like fun to drop by and see.  Maps shows at least 15 cabooses there.

Happy Tail End Tuesday!
Happy Holidays!
My 1956 Lionel 1615 switcher work train set with its orange work caboose at the tail end.

@pennsyfan

Thanks! I always look forward to and enjoy my birthday!

Well Christmas 2023 has passed and all that is left is lots of used wrapping paper (and what was wrapped).  So I thought I might move "back" to an earlier period and post my Lionel "Rescue" caboose, # 6814 from 1959-1961  This one complete with the stretchers and O2 bottles and the EMT sitting ready to spring to the rescue.

Best Wishes to all and here is hoping your New Year is the best!

Best Wishes

Don

This tail end arrived missing a headlight lens. Vernon Barry was gracious enough to navigate the MTH Parts website, and find the exact fit replacement part. A dab of glue restored it to it’s former glory!

New York Central observation car (model by MTH Premier for PS1) was at the tail end of a passenger train on my 10'-by-5' model railroad.

MELGAR

One of my best tails, this NY Central caboose in front of the Polo Grounds:

Arnold

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!!

TET

Western Union Telegraph Mobile Illumination Unit

TET a day after Christmas Williams New Haven

@Don McErlean posted:

Well Christmas 2023 has passed and all that is left is lots of used wrapping paper (and what was wrapped).  So I thought I might move "back" to an earlier period and post my Lionel "Rescue" caboose, # 6814 from 1959-1961  This one complete with the stretchers and O2 bottles and the EMT sitting ready to spring to the rescue.

Best Wishes to all and here is hoping your New Year is the best!

Best Wishes

Don

Nice looking car Don

Here’s a short video of the MTH End of Train Device (ETD) that I installed on a freight car being pulled by a little and very cute steam locomotive:

For the tail end of this Tail End Tuesday here is my tail end.

MTH N6b cabin with GGD reefer.

The paint scheme with chrome yellow grabs but no keystone indicates applied sometime between 1949 and 1955.  The all black roof and cupola, enstead of various combinations of black and red for the cabin roof, cupola roof, and cupola, indicates sometime just prior to 1955.

I actually think MTH was trying for the 1955-1961 scheme but forgot to add the Shadow Keystone.

“For the tail end of this Tail End Tuesday here is my tail end.”

That’s a mouth full.

@CAPPilot posted:

For the tail end of this Tail End Tuesday here is my tail end.

MTH N6b cabin with GGD reefer.

The paint scheme with chrome yellow grabs but no keystone indicates applied sometime between 1949 and 1955.  The all black roof and cupola, enstead of various combinations of black and red for the cabin roof, cupola roof, and cupola, indicates sometime just prior to 1955.

I actually think MTH was trying for the 1955-1961 scheme but forgot to add the Shadow Keystone.

@CAPPilot

Ron:

That is a beautiful cabin car. Now correct me if I am wrong, by the date of 1955-1961, how many wood-sided cabin cars were still in use on the PRR? I thought the use of all wood sided rolling stock was discontinued many decades before.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@CAPPilot

Ron:

That is a beautiful cabin car. Now correct me if I am wrong, by the date of 1955-1961, how many wood-sided cabin cars were still in use on the PRR? I thought the use of all wood sided rolling stock was discontinued many decades before.

Randy,

The N6b steel-framed, wood-sided cabin ran in regular service into the 1960s.  The few remaining after that were in MoW service.

You might be thinking of wood-framed cabooses (and cars).  These were outlawed in the 1910s I think.

Also, the meat packing industry used 36’/37’ steel-framed, wood reefers into the late 50s.

@CAPPilot posted:

Randy,

The N6b steel-framed, wood-sided cabin ran in regular service into the 1960s.  The few remaining after that were in MoW service.

You might be thinking of wood-framed cabooses (and cars).  These were outlawed in the 1910s I think.

Also, the meat packing industry used 36’/37’ steel-framed, wood reefers into the late 50s.

@CAPPilot

Ron:

Thanks for the clarification.  I really appreciate the information. I have now learned a new PRR fact. Though I am a member of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society, I am mainly in the Society to learn more of the PRR history. My main source of PRR knowledge, my maternal grandfather, passed away in 1963.

Happy New Year to you!

@Sitka- Thank you for the compliment on my "Rescue" caboose.

Don

@WP, I Love those crane cars and crane cabooses, I always wanted a set of those, especially the crane car with 6 wheel trucks, but, somehow just never acquired a set. So, I bought these newer Command Control sets and at one time I had one of every set Lionel made, but have had to reduce my inventory a bit. These sets are the ones I have now, just test run. This is a great thread, lots of tails seen here…. Happy New Year Everyone….

1st Tail End Tuesday of the new year God Speed All!

MTH

Here's my rears for this fine first Tuesday of  2024!  

I guess we can call this a tail end seeing how the Doodlebug runs by itself.

Gene

A tail end view of MTH wood-sided passenger coaches (special run from Forum sponsor Public Delivery Track) that ran behind New York Central 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #1232.

MELGAR

Well following those who just posted old fashioned non-streamlined passenger cars and platform observations, here is the 1930's vintage "Paul Revere" by American Flyer Lines (Chicago Flyer)

Best Wishes and Happy New Year Everyone

Don

A new tail end for me.  N5b cabin of unknown origin with some rather unusual PRR markings.  There is Lines West and then again there is LINES WEST!

Anyone have an idea on manufacturer?  I'm thinking it's a Max Gray, or perhaps a USH.  Definitely not a Walthers as it's all brass.  Love the Monarch couplers on it too.  Always find those interesting. I needs a little TLC but at $40 I couldn't pass it up.

I can’t get up to the layout, so I pulled some old pics.
A Lionel 712 observation

A Marx observation with a lighted drumhead.

A Marx streamline observation with lighted markers and colored silhouettes.

Have a good TET all! 

Happy Tail End Tuesday. Stay safe and dry.
Here is a view of a coal drag from inside the cupola of the tail end.

Here is a view of an engine running light on the local track.

Bob - very nice! From a Lionel Cupola Camera Caboose, or home remedy camera placement?

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Bob - very nice! From a Lionel Cupola Camera Caboose, or home remedy camera placement?

Thanks Mark, the Lionel camera caboose.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!

For Tail End Tuesday 01/09/2024, I'm posting two cabooses. New Haven NE-6 C-681 (model by Atlas O) is prototypical. New Haven extended vision NE-6 C-649 (model by MTH) definitely is not. They both ran behind New Haven Alco RS-1 #0668 (model by Atlas O).

MELGAR

@pennsyfan posted:

Happy Tail End Tuesday. Stay safe and dry.
Here is a view of a coal drag from inside the cupola of the tail end.

Here is a view of an engine running light on the local track.

Bob very sharp! A nice tour of your layout and a chance to see the rest of your room WTG Mark

@Sitka posted:

Bob very sharp! A nice tour of your layout and a chance to see the rest of your room WTG Mark

Thanks Mark!