Tail End Tuesday

Well today, I am following @walt rapp and @pennsyfan with a little tinplate.  This the American Flyer (Chicago Flyer), #1120 observation car from 1929.  The same number car was made in a bewildering array of colors and combinations (roof, body, trim, etc) from 1923-1929.  As I said in the first sentence, the color combination on this car was used in 1929.

Here is the same car with the tail sign logo "Flyer Limited".  I am going to assume that was a set for which the car was supplied, however I have almost no data on pre-war Flyer "sets" so I cannot confirm the configuration. The data I do have, shows that the observation car (still numbered 1120) was only added in1928 whereas the Pullman 1120 was available from 1922 on.  The 1120 type sets were typically pulled by a small boxcab electric, like the 1095.  My set came with a small boxcab numbered 1097 with a matching color scheme (shown below).

Here is the engine which came with my 1120 set.  She also can be dated to 1929 because of the cast headlight.

Happy Tuesday everyone, Best Wishes

Don

New York Central wood-sided caboose #19877 (MTH 20-91790) ran at the tail end of a short train behind NYC 0-4-0 steam switcher #901 on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

I have two complete 5-car sets of these Williams 18" HW passenger cars that I run at shows behind my two Williams scale GG1s.  What I like about these is the window inserts are in color.  Not sure when they were made, but I bought these used in Feb 1993.

@CAPPilot posted:

I have two complete 5-car sets of these Williams 18" HW passenger cars that I run at shows behind my two Williams scale GG1s.  What I like about these is the window inserts are in color.  Not sure when they were made, but I bought these used in Feb 1993.

During my one trip to York I bought some of those colored window inserts from a vendor.  Now I know what they were intended for.  I have a set of GN Williams heavyweights but I've put LEDs in them so I don't know if I'll put the colored inserts in them or try to fit them in some other passenger cars.

PRR passenger and freight trains crossing the Hellgate bridge on THE SOUTH FORK RAILROAD today.

For this fine Tuesday: A One Sentence Story .....  A brakeman on the ground tells a "tall tale" to the conductor standing on the tail deck of a caboose which is at the tale end of a way freight train sitting in the hole yielding to a time freight whose tail end is seen whizzing by as another brakeman has his tail end mounted on the throne in the out house with the door open as he too listens to his co-worker's "tall tail".  THE END!

Another tail end to add to this Tuesday.

Here’s an Atlas O UP bay window caboose as my “Tail End” for the day:

@trumpettrain posted:

For this fine Tuesday: A Once Sentence Story .....  A brakeman on the ground tells a "tall tale" to the conductor standing on the tail deck of a caboose which is at the tale end of a way freight train sitting in the hole yielding to a time freight whose tail end is seen whizzing by as another brakeman has his tail end mounted on the throne in the out house with the door open as he too listens to his co-worker's "tall tail".  THE END!

That's a lot of tail! Tale? Or both.

My tail for the day is the tail of the taxi. The police car will soon be upon him.

The chase is done and the taxi driver’s tail will be in front of the Magistrate.
 

Tail End Tuesday, and here’s the observation car end of a Southern Pacific passenger train.

Here's a New York Central tail end.

It's MTH but that's all I know.  I must have needed another NYC caboose and this one apparently fit the bill.  I don't remember if I got this at a train show or from either Nassau Hobby or Trailand, unboxed and unidentified.  I typed NYC Caboose 20112 into the MTH Product Locator and came up with a Tinplate caboose and a Premier wood side wearing the same paint scheme so I went with NYC caboose.  I looks a little like a RK Offset Steel side caboose except the MTH RK separate sale OSS cabooses have 3 windows not 5.  I believe this must be from a set break-up but can't find a picture of a set with a caboose that looks like this.  Any ideas?

Well for T.E.T. how about a "collection in a picture".   3 cabooses, all prewar, from both Lionel and American Flyer.  The Lionel caboose on the far left is the #657 from the smaller line of 0 gauge rolling stock and was available in this color scheme from 1935-1938.  The other end of the trio, on the far right is the Lionel # 817 from their larger line of 0 gauge rolling stock and in this color scheme dates from about 1935.  The "800" 8-wheel series does pre-date the "650" 8-wheel series, one initiated in 1926 the other in 1933.

The one in the middle is the interesting one.  It is American Flyer #484 sheet metal caboose from the transition period after Gilbert has taken over the firm and was in the process of moving it from Chicago to New Haven, date around 1940.  It is "S" or 3/16 " to the ft scale but 0 gauge so far as trucks & track is concerned.  Flyer did not change to S scale track (2-rail) until after the war so for this short period of transition we have American Flyer S scale trains that run on 0 gauge track.

Happy Tuesday every one hope your week is going well

Don

Observation Tail Ends God Speed All!

@coach joe posted:

Here's a New York Central tail end.

It's MTH but that's all I know.  I must have needed another NYC caboose and this one apparently fit the bill.  I don't remember if I got this at a train show or from either Nassau Hobby or Trailand, unboxed and unidentified.  I typed NYC Caboose 20112 into the MTH Product Locator and came up with a Tinplate caboose and a Premier wood side wearing the same paint scheme so I went with NYC caboose.  I looks a little like a RK Offset Steel side caboose except the MTH RK separate sale OSS cabooses have 3 windows not 5.  I believe this must be from a set break-up but can't find a picture of a set with a caboose that looks like this.  Any ideas?

Coach - it’s from set 30-4046-1

It’s a tail spin topic, fun to review and it’s always a Wow…. Have a great week everyone.

Here is my submission for Tail End Tuesday.  I am beginning to wonder if I have too much tail ???

BTW the last caboose is a 2 rail with Kadee couplers connected to the "claw". Not sure I would want to pull anything behind it.

Looks like a crummy hack job to me!   Great video!

A random submission from a photo from days long ago.  So long ago that I don't have the Golden State obs anymore and the PRR one I sold, but since picked up another one at auction because the price was right.  Not sure if the CR GG1 counts as a tail end too since the rear pan is up.   

You might remember, A.T.&S.F. waycars had white porch lights in addition to a centered red marker.

@Rob Leese posted:

You might remember, A.T.&S.F. waycars had white porch lights in addition to a centered red marker.

Sharp!

Thank you Mark.

At the tail-end of my train for Tuesday, August 20, 2024 is New York Central extended vision caboose #23037 in the NYC Pacemaker paint scheme. This model - MTH 20-91030 – was delivered in 2001 at MSRP $44.95 and is based on a prototype built by International Car Company beginning in 1953.

Photos and video show #23037 on my 12’-by-8’ layout behind a train pulled by NYC diesel locomotive #9110 – a Fairbanks Morse H10-44.

MELGAR

A.T.&S.F. Rwy. T E T !!

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Happy TET! My tail end for today is EL Radio Equipped # 896. It was running on my layout behind a mixed freight with EL AS-616 # 1159 on the point.

Bought this when I had a Pennsy coal drag pulled by a Pennsy 6-8-6

- walt

Here are two of my old favorites now retired and enjoying a rest on the display shelves in my office:

MTH SW1500 engines on this Tail-End-Tuesday.

Well (just for smiles) to start off today, here is an ex-Navy Dept employee (hint, hint guess who?)  who is looking for a caboose to post but can't find it 

More in line with our theme, here is the Hornby Type 50 tender loco at the head of a train of a post war No 1 Pullman and a passenger brake van (T.E. for today), all from 1954 - 1956

Best Wishes , Don

Ho hum. Just another Neosho, Stella & White River train rolling through the Arkansas Delta.

Have a good TET all!

Well, I’ve been away from the forum do to friends passing away and selling their collections…  But, I love tail end Tuesday’s very much… Happy Railroading Everyone

Tail end of an early era Amtrak train leaving a station stop as the 1947 American Freedom Train passes to the left.  This is a scanned photo from TCA Desert Divisions modules back in 2005 at a Trains, Planes, & Automobiles event in Mesa, AZ at Falcon Field.   

I drove my '39 Chevy to carry my trains to this meet and ended up entering it in the vehicle show to get closer to the hanger where the trains were.  I got an award for the truck while I was at it. 

Photo of the truck from that show:

Here's a different version of the PRR caboose that I showed a few posts above.  It also was to used on my 12 car coal drag of PRR hoppers pulled by a PRR S-2

= walt

At the tail end of my train this Tuesday is Boston & Maine wood-sided passenger car #1268 pulled by B&M 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #2074 (Lionel Legacy 2131050). Boston & Maine Wood Coach 2-Pack #2 (Lionel 2227100) includes cars #1268 and #1243 and was delivered in 2022 at MSRP $399.99. The tooling for these wood-sided coaches, which are listed for O-42 curves, was made by MTH and acquired by Lionel. The undersides of the trucks are engraved with “MTH” but “Lionel” is painted over in white. Wood passenger cars remained in commuter service on the B&M into the 1950s.

MELGAR

Happy Tail End Tuesday. Here’s a Bing freight train with a nice “tail end” caboose.

Colorado & Southern 548

Lionel, from a 1998 rolling stock 4 pack, 6-21751. Also contained PRR/FGE Reefer with die cast frame, PRR TOFC and PRR 3 bay cylindrical hopper

@Rob Leese posted:

Colorado & Southern 548

Nice looking lanterns, Sharp