Tail End Tuesday

Rusty

Here's the tail end of a 1959 Lionel #6557 smoking caboose.   The sweet smell coffee and hot breakfast rises out of the stove pipe as the crew passes through a rail yard.

Here’s the Tavern/lounge of the Phoebe Snow, and an Erie bay window caboose at the tail of a short freight.

Private car, "Virginia City," pre WW-II Walthers rebuild, Office car, modified Walthers and the National Limited,  with a 1948 Kasiner observation finished as "Genesee River."

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!  

Early morning freight with two cabeese on the rear.

Here's a patriotic tail end Tuesday.

It is late 1949 and the photographer was taking pictures of a PRR L1 when a fast express train passed behind him.  The train was made up of several R50s and a lot of B60s and X-29s, and a few from other roads.  He was able to turn his camera just in time to take a photo of an old P70 being used as a crew car at the tail end. 

3rd Rail brass

Chief Drew's Wisconsin Central MTH SP-45 recently purchased from @GG1 4877 with a mixed freight and C&NW caboose.

It’s Tail End Tuesday again! For 10/12/21, here’s another shot of Brother Love’s beautifully built Keyser Shops’ Lackawanna caboose.

Rusty

@NYC Fan posted:

Great low angle shot Skip.

A little "social" time before the NH freight local spots cars at the brewery...!

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Well folks, I have been away on vacation for the last 3 weeks so I am trying to catch up with all your posts.  Great pictures all and some really neat T.E.'s for sure.  I am going to post early today as my Tuesday morning will be a little full of other work, so here goes.  This one is somewhat unusual and candidly I am not sure I have it right.  This is a Karl Bub, LEUNA tanker from 1934-38 but it has a brakeman's shelter on the end.  I can only assume that these little houses served to shelter a brakeman who had the responsibility to set the brakes on the final car...hence qualifies for a Tail End!!

I bet this was an unpleasant ride!!

Best wishes all

Don

Caboose rear end as commuter train passes by.

@Don McErlean posted:

This is a Karl Bub, LEUNA tanker from 1934-38 but it has a brakeman's shelter on the end.  I can only assume that these little houses served to shelter a brakeman who had the responsibility to set the brakes on the final car...hence qualifies for a Tail End!!

Best wishes all

Don

Nice car.  Leuna tank cars are my favorite European tank cars.

However, cars with a brakeman's shed could appear anywhere in a train and there could be multiples.

Rusty

It’s Tail End Tuesday! Here’s my contribution:

The Super is on the road to inspect . . .

The Baltimore & New York Railway office car is a modified Walthers kit, backdated with truss rods to model an older car upgraded and modernized with a steel reenforced under frame and steel sheathing. Rebult from the kit I first built in 1954 during 1970's, it has a fully detailed interior with personnel on baord along with air conditoning.  I also made a new car end for the open platform with better proportions than the original soft metal casting.  Markers and inspection lights are powered with batteries under beds in two drawing rooms and controlled with a switch hidden in the water tank under the car.

S. Islander

Nice inspection car, S. Islander! Beautiful details.

Happy Tail End Tueday!

Well hi T.E.T folks...today my post comes from the Hafner folks, who made (only clockwork) trains up until about the middle 50's although at the end, they had been taken over by the All Metal Products company using their trade name, Wyandotte toy's.

Here is the mighty Hafner 1010 loco made from 1938 until about 1950/51.  This one is a rather fancy variant using chrome for the trim and chrome sides on the tender but they made many variations and color schemes.

And in view of our theme of "Tail End's" here is his handsome caboose.  Note that Hafner, unlike the prototype railroads, "streamlined" his freight cars.  He made these in several lines, I have another train with essentially the same cars from a lithograph perspective but they are only about 3/4's as long.

Best wishes for a great week

Don

Here's my rears and they are tender

Don and Patrick, great starts to TET!

As we get closer to the holiday season, here’s a M&M filled work caboose on my Christmas display.

Well good morning everyone, here it is "Tail End Tuesday" again with the first Tuesday in a new month, November!  I thought I might post one of the more uncommon "TE"'s I have, a Rock Island transfer caboose.  This fellow, from Lionel some 31 years ago (1990) is Lionel # 16519 and I have him posed behind a Marx RI switcher (I don't have a Lionel RI switcher) to make the scene for the picture.  This fellow post dates the Lionel MPC era which ended in 1985 and was created by the second of the Lionel follow on licensee's, "Lionel Trains Incorporated" or LTI which reigned from 1986-1995.

I tried to build a sequence of him passing by the platform of my suburban station.  Not sure the effect worked out but the pictures of the caboose seemed OK.

Best wishes for a good week

Don

A great start to this “TET”, Don!

Here's my rear for this find Tuesday!

Thanks Artie-DL&W

Regards Don

Keep those rails shiny everyone............😉

Dallas-Joseph : Great picture but while looking at the scene I saw that you seem to have used some sort of "pre-formed" roadbed under your tubular track.  Is that a commercial product or did you make it yourself?  If its a commercial product would you post the maker?  Thanks

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Dallas-Joseph : Great picture but while looking at the scene I saw that you seem to have used some sort of "pre-formed" roadbed under your tubular track.  Is that a commercial product or did you make it yourself?  If its a commercial product would you post the maker?  Thanks

Don

It is indeed preformed Don.   The roadbed and track are one piece .      It is MTH's  Real Trax .

Dallas-Joseph:  Thanks for the response and the information.  Much appreciated.  I admit I am unfamiliar with MTH track products although I have some of their trains.

Best regards

Don

It’s Tail End Tuesday for 11/9/2021! Here’s two tail end cars. The AEC Security Car could act as a caboose, but here it is entering Area 51 with an AEC caboose.

Hears my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Nice cabeese, Patrick!

One favorite passenger trains - K-Line City of New Orleans

Oh, man, c.Sam, that train is beautiful!

Well here we are and its "Tail End" Tuesday already, week flying by.  Today I have a relatively uncommon Marx 4 wheel caboose (I always hesitate to use the word "rare" with most of Marx items). This is the Marx Bessemer and Lake Erie RR (B&LE) caboose.  One of the few items Marx ever made for B&LE.  This item is not really "classic" Marx, being made in 1973 nearly one year after Louis Marx sold the company to Quaker Oats Corp who also owned Fischer Price toys.

Regardless, here is my "Tail End" for today, the  Marx B&LE caboose.

Best wishes

Don