Tail End Tuesday

@stangtrain posted:

My MTH Union Pacific bobber caboose arrived and is now pals with my Doodlebug - two fun names together!

They actually look real good together.

Gene

@pennsyfan- Thanks for the comment on my "cable follower" train.  I think you are right, this concept was a lead in to today's wire following technology.  Never thought about it that way, but that's cool!

Don

My Tuesday tail-end photos and video show CNJ steel caboose #91530 – model by MTH.

The locomotive is Raritan River USRA 0-6-0 #20. This is my only "New Jersey Train," so the locomotive and caboose are not from the same railroad...

MELGAR

Here' my rear for this fine Tuesday!  

I took this photo while at the Virginia Museum of Transportation on Sunday July 7.   This is the rear of the J Class 611's water tender.   As most folks know, the 611 travels in a consist with two tenders ... the first being the traditional coal/water tender and the second being this water tender which holds 25,000 gallons of H2O plus houses a walk in tool compartment accessed from the front of the tender.

My tail end today is a work caboose turned into a security car following the armored car picking up gold & silver to A1 Scranton Gold & Silver Buyers.

Mel, this CNJ paint scheme always makes me think US Coast Guard.

Patrick, I love  the road number on the auxiliary tender.  VMTX 250001, Virginia Museum of Transportation 25,000 gallon water tender #1.

My MTH Premier UP bobber caboose arrived today! Now, I’m sort of seeing double with it coupled to my RailKing UP bobber caboose!

My TET on NY State hit with tornados, hope all is safe!

@Sitka - I was traveling yesterday, all day , and did not hear of tornadoes hitting NY state.  Our family lived in OHIO in the tornado belt for nearly 18 years (1970-1988) and although we escaped (sometimes a very close call) being hit, a family I worked with and we were very close to had their house reduced to matchsticks in a matter of moments, so a tornado is a very frightening storm for certain  So I add my prayers to yours and hope all are safe.

Well for my T.E.T. post, I have selected the Hornby Type 31 coaches.  The first car is a 1st / 2nd class coach available from 1956-Dec 1968 and the second car is a 3rd/Brake or a 2nd / Brake ( it isn't marked)  available from 1956 (0nly) for 3rd/Brake and 1956 - 1965 for 2nd/ Brake ( the Tail End normally).

Below are these coaches being hauled by a Hornby Type 51 tender loco available from Jun '54 to May '61.

Well Best Wishes, hope your week is going OK.  Again, hope that our NY friends are all OK .

Don

my tail end

- walt

@Don McErlean posted:

@Sitka - I was traveling yesterday, all day , and did not hear of tornadoes hitting NY state.  Our family lived in OHIO in the tornado belt for nearly 18 years (1970-1988) and although we escaped (sometimes a very close call) being hit, a family I worked with and we were very close to had their house reduced to matchsticks in a matter of moments, so a tornado is a very frightening storm for certain  So I add my prayers to yours and hope all are safe.

Well for my T.E.T. post, I have selected the Hornby Type 31 coaches.  The first car is a 1st / 2nd class coach available from 1956-Dec 1968 and the second car is a 3rd/Brake or a 2nd / Brake ( it isn't marked)  available from 1956 (0nly) for 3rd/Brake and 1956 - 1965 for 2nd/ Brake ( the Tail End normally).

Below are these coaches being hauled by a Hornby Type 51 tender loco available from Jun '54 to May '61.

Well Best Wishes, hope your week is going OK.  Again, hope that our NY friends are all OK .

Don

Thanks Don Rome, NY got hit hard along with many more counties, lost power for about 6 hrs but have a generator, lost some nice trees. Spent the day cutting down or trimming branches. Thanks Again that's what makes this hobby great is the brotherhood. God Speed All!

This K-Line caboose was lit up like a tanning bed and featured R-Y-R markers.  Every bit of lighting was removed.  Evan Designs 3mm cool white bulbs were installed in the markers to turn the yellow lens green without affecting the red ones.  A single warm white bulb was placed at the forward conductor's desk to simulate an oil lamp.  Q.A.&P. conductor Wm. Clawson is working waybills and switch lists while brakeman Fred Pierce watches for hotboxes and shifting loads.

@Sitka - Thanks for the update.  Thank God you and your family are OK.  Well I guess the silver lining if there is one is that you will have firewood for the winter.  Again glad you and yours are ok.

Don

A.T.&S.F. Rwy. 2314

Happy TET

Here are the tail ends of Central Pacific Jupiter and  Union Pacific  #119 as they leave town.

Photos and video show Maine Central extended vision caboose #670 at the tail end of a freight train led by MEC 2-8-0 Consolidation #501 on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The train includes cars from Maine and Vermont.

The 3-rail model of Maine Central caboose #670 was delivered by Atlas O (3001260) in 2013 at MSRP $79.95. It operates on O-36 curves and is based on prototypes that were built during the 1960s. It has an illuminated full interior with crew figures, flashing warning light on rear, metal grab irons, die-cast chassis, and Barber-Bettendorf caboose trucks with rotating bearing caps.

MELGAR

#1309 Western Maryland on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

We took the South Shore Line to Indiana Dunes State Park.  Here are tail ends from the commuter line.

a 'smaller' but more fun tail end

- walt

Here is an old gal, from about 1927-28 which may have been offered in the "Explorer" set of that era, although they were also likely offered as stand alone cars.  These also sometimes had "Oriental Limited" printed over the windows as opposed to American Flyer Lines but just to add to the confusion, these green cars even when so marked were NOT part of AF's Oriental Set which used orange cars...confused you bet, this company in those times was selling whatever they could make to anyone who had money to buy them.  So today nearly a century later, we are left trying to figure out what was what.  Note that the car carries no number, that was the way it came originally.  I have some reference information that states that the catalog picture did carry a number but I have no confirmation of that.  Flyer at that time made both numbered and un-numbered cars, Why? Who knows!

Best Wishes

Don

Have a good TET All!

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is an old gal, from about 1927-28 which may have been offered in the "Explorer" set of that era, although they were also likely offered as stand alone cars.  These also sometimes had "Oriental Limited" printed over the windows as opposed to American Flyer Lines but just to add to the confusion, these green cars even when so marked were NOT part of AF's Oriental Set which used orange cars...confused you bet, this company in those times was selling whatever they could make to anyone who had money to buy them.  So today nearly a century later, we are left trying to figure out what was what.  Note that the car carries no number, that was the way it came originally.  I have some reference information that states that the catalog picture did carry a number but I have no confirmation of that.  Flyer at that time made both numbered and un-numbered cars, Why? Who knows!

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean i thought I had a similar car; but it has many differences. I got the 3 car set from on of my vendors when I ran the train show In Howard Beach, Queens, NY. I didn’t remember the brass awning. Would the slot in the railing be for attaching a drumhead?

@pennsyfan - Great Set!  IAW to my reference material, these cars should be the 3150 baggage, 3151 Pullman and 3152 observation or 3161 Pullman and 3162 observation.  Both are very similar,   Green / darker Green roofs, American Flyer Lines in a sans-serf lettering decal over the windows, windows and doors of brass and rear canopy also of brass.  8 wheel and un-numbered on the car.  They date to 1930-1933 so a little later than mine but certainly of the same era.  I agree, I would bet that the slot in the rear railing is for a marker plate.  The one on my set of cars is clearly an add-on and easily removed and attached other places.  The differences between 315 series and 316 series is very hard to discern, the description is identical in the reference material I have and the pictures appear identical.  Both series were made in the same 1930-1933 period.

Great cars in super condition.  Thanks for posting

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan - Great Set!  IAW to my reference material, these cars should be the 3150 baggage, 3151 Pullman and 3152 observation or 3161 Pullman and 3162 observation.  Both are very similar,   Green / darker Green roofs, American Flyer Lines in a sans-serf lettering decal over the windows, windows and doors of brass and rear canopy also of brass.  8 wheel and un-numbered on the car.  They date to 1930-1933 so a little later than mine but certainly of the same era.  I agree, I would bet that the slot in the rear railing is for a marker plate.  The one on my set of cars is clearly an add-on and easily removed and attached other places.  The differences between 315 series and 316 series is very hard to discern, the description is identical in the reference material I have and the pictures appear identical.  Both series were made in the same 1930-1933 period.

Great cars in super condition.  Thanks for posting

Don

Thanks Don !

My tail-end photos and video for Tuesday, July 30, 2024 show Boston & Maine northeastern steel caboose #104647 at the rear of a freight train pulled by B&M 2-6-0 “Mogul” #1455 on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad. MTH delivered the model (20-91088) in 2002 at MSRP $54.95. The layout was built to resemble a single-track branch line in New England and the engine, caboose and freight cars match the scene.

MELGAR

Have a good TET all!

A Santa Fe tailend

- walt

Wow, great thread, fun to review….. Happy Tail End Tuesday Everyone…

My MTH Premier UP Bobber Caboose now with overhead LED lighting:

My Tail End for today. My customized Williams D&RG OBS; cut up to simulate an open air car. Repainted and lettered by Christian Brandon. I added tables, chairs and people.

Well today I thought I might post the French manufacturer JEP to support T.E.T.  To start off , here is a short train, comprising just about all the JEP that I have, using a clockwork steamer and a Class 1-2 passenger coach that I actually bought in France while on a vacation there with my wife about 5 years ago.

Here is the "tail end" of that passenger coach showing a rear quarter view.

Finally we get to the real "Tail End" of this short consist, the view of the rear of the passenger coach.

Best Wishes, Don

1880 Train or Black Hills Central RR between Keystone & Hill City, SD.

Wonderful Tail Ends!

Another one of my tail ends for the tail end of Tail End Tuesday.  Need to post earlier.

Here is my only N8 cabin, an MTH model.  The prototype was initially delivered in 1950 with the circle keystone, and was the only cabin with a keystone until 1955 when all cabins started to get the shadow keystone.  There are not many N8 models of the circle keystone.

Long Island Rail Road N8 caboose #56 by MTH (20-91111) was at the tail end of a freight train powered by LIRR Alco RS-1 #462 on my 10’-by-5’ layout. The model of #56 was delivered in 2003 at MSRP $54.95 and is a Pennsylvania Railroad prototype.

MELGAR

Happy Tail End Tuesday!  Here is a Conrail bay window caboose by MTH.

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

a tin-plate one

- walt

it belongs to the Lionel by MTH "Christmas Train" set

Northern Pacific tail end

My Tail Ends for this Tuesday

The tail end of cab forward as taken from the top of the oil tender.

A 3/4 shot of engine and tender

The tail end of my new AF PreWar Burlington  Zephyr.

Another shot since you can’t see the lights from track level.

When I took this shot I realized there was what looks like a light in the center. On closer inspection it appears to be painted green?

I took the plate off the bottom to get a look inside and realized that simulated fixture is in the roof with no access. The roof is riveted on as evidenced by the rivet that can be seen in the previous picture. I could see the other end from the bottom. Not sometimes going to mess with on this C-9 piece.