Tail End Tuesday

A paint project from 25+ years ago, GM&O "The Abraham Lincoln":

And club member Richard's AeroTrain in PRR livery:

Ahhh  just about an hour to get in here in EST...

Here is the K-Line UP City of LA I think it is and a favorite - The MainStreet of the Northwest. These are 21' Weaver aluminum cars from 20+ years ago. Beautiful!

Not a good photo as the angle of the light washed out the graphics on the side of this car. It is at the end of the shelf against the far wall and I had to reach way out using the selfie mode to get it at all!

Tail End Tuesday ala AT&SF Warbonnet a plenty.

Love the large Dorfan platforms.

Two cabeese bring up the rear of an early morning freight train.

Happy Tail End Tuesday!

Some more UP bringing up the rear - a couple of K-Line special runs from years back including the Big Boy “Survivors” caboose and the tender from the MTH coal turbine:

@Hancock52, just ran across your post which reminded that last Saturday at the club the 15 year old grandson of a member pulled out of a box the gigantic LIONEL Legacy Big Boy #4014; set it up for Legacy; and ran it a good while.  Grandpa taught him well.

Be safe.

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@Pingman posted:

@Hancock52, just ran across your post which reminded that last Saturday at the club the 15 year old grandson of a member pulled out of a box the gigantic LIONEL Legacy Big Boy #4014; set it up for Legacy; and ran it a good while.  Grandpa taught him well.

Be safe.

Also very good taste in the caboose department!

Plus, it might still be Tuesday somewhere so here's a late addition - a Texas Special (21" aluminum body, Lionel) observation car, the Stephen F. Austin, with interior by my own coachworks:

Well here we are again at T.E.T and just before "Turkey Day", best wishes to everyone.  My offering today is from an old but not necessarily well known RR, the "Grand Trunk".  Originally designed to shorten traffic distances in Canada by cutting across the United States, the Grand Trunk system had its ups and downs, eventually being nationalized and folded into the Canadian National System although the portions in the US kept their "GT" name.  Its mainline in the US stretched from Portland, Mane to Chicago traveling through VT,Mass.,Conn, Mich.,Indiana, and Ill.  At one time the GT system in the US also included the Central Vermont RR although that was spun off in more modern times.

This rather simple SP type caboose in Grand Trunk colors is Lionel, dates from 1970.  Catalogued in 1970 it was also available as uncatalogued from 1971-1973. Note the MPC logo under the word "Lionel".  This dual marking was common but only in the earliest days of the MPC licensed production.

Best Wishes for a great week and Happy Thanksgiving.

Don

Thanks for the tutorial, Don. I’m a little out of commission today, having had minor surgery on my eyelid yesterday, but healing. I can still enjoy the forum, though!

Artie - here's hoping you recover quickly and heal fast.

Best Wishes

Don

Thanks, Don!

Dennis, I like that terminal!

Thanks Artie, it is based on an illustration in the 1940 or 41 Lionel catalog.  Basically stuffs as much into a 4x8 foot space as is possible I think.  Eventually, I will have an upper level loop that runs behind the station for more wide radius stuff.

Happy Tail End Tuesday! There are actually 3 tail ends in the photo.

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!  Pennsy caboose bring up the rear of two GG1's running lite as the tailed of a B&O passenger local passes on an adjacent track.

Sir Topham Hatt wanted to check out his new acquisition.

TET from some of the layouts at MUZEO

Steve

So last Saturday at the club, Raphael's 7 year old son, and 4 year old daughter were running "James" from Thomas the Tank Engine fame with Daddy's phone app:

Sebastian also ran conventional with this LIONEL NYC 44 tonner(?):

And Papa ran his York find--MTH R-32 subway 4-car set with 2-car add-on pair:

Murph ran this customized smoking caboose with red flashing tail light at the rear of his LIONEL 1950 Hudson:

Being the club's in Norfolk it's a NAVY town, we need to have a Navy presence on the railroad:

And a couple of late arriving visitors got to run an old school diesel with a nice red caboose:

Be safe.

Late addition:  Chief Drew's Wisconsin-centric 20 car freight trailing MR box car with EOTD:

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In this evening's operating session, we're traveling in style on a fast passenger train, in a private observation no less!

I picked up this lone but magnificent K-Line PRR observation car at the Allentown First Frost show a few weeks ago. I don't have any other chrome cars to run it with, but for now it will act as a "private varnish" at the end of other trains. I like to imagine that some railroad magnate uses it as a rolling office as he makes his quarterly rounds about his empire.

This is the tail car of my favorite MTH passenger set, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Fleet of Modernism. I run these cars a lot on my layout since I just never get sick of seeing them whirl around the mainline.

Here's the whole consist being pulled by my prized steam locomotive, Lionel's mighty Lionchief Legacy T1 Duplex!

Ok I am late!  Wife's Dr appointment in Ft. Worth took up yesterday...so I am posting on Wed morning.  Does not look like I missed anyone so this must have been a slow Tuesday.  Today I have a simple pre-war American Flyer caboose.  The #1127 was never catalogued and came in both 4 wheel (like this) or 8 wheel versions.  You can see the lithography is very simple just 2 colors and there are no trim pieces or journals.  Axles just set in a hole in the frame.  Very much the most simple of cars.  Made between 1932 and 1937.  So at nearly 90 years old, here he is the #1127 American Flyer caboose.

Well T.E.T fans, sorry for being late...hope you are having a good week.

Don

Here's my rear for this fine Wednesday!  Brakemen ride the rear of a Docksider.

NH cabosse and box waiting for hook-up on the main line...

Oh boy folks, no T.E.T posts this week?  Its already late at 6 pm in Texas, would have thought you East Coast folks would have me beat.  Well, I just can't let a Tuesday go by without some mention of a "tail end".  This one is partially nostalgic for me, as I had the version with a searchlight on my first train set in 1948 (at least I think it was mine, at only 3 years old might have been Dad's and Grandpa's  ).  This is the Lionel # 6419, DL&W work caboose.  Made 1948-1950 and again from 1952-55.

By the way, as I think about the DL& W, I recalled that Artie DL&W reported that he had had some medical work done on his eye.  Artie you have not mentioned it again, but I hope you have fully recovered and all went well.

Best Wishes to all

Don

When one loses their tail...

Rusty

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!  

Here's a couple of shots of my Milwaukee Road Skytop on the swing bridge. A little late for Tuesday's contributions, but I just happened upon this feed.

Susquehanna & Chesapeake 12 trails a transfer movement on the Baltimore & New York Ry.   It was scratch built and a series of articles I wrote on buliding it were published in issue 107 (Oct. 1989 in OSR) and issues 109, 110 and 111 (Feb. Apr. Jun. 1990 in OGR.  The prototype is a Wichita Falls & Southern caboose that rode on Fox trucks.  The trucks under this S&C caboose came from an AHM "Casey Jones" tender that was modifed with arch bar trucks.         

S. Islander

CSX getting warmed up for this morning's work load.

@Jeff B. Haertlein posted:

Here's a couple of shots of my Milwaukee Road Skytop on the swing bridge. A little late for Tuesday's contributions, but I just happened upon this feed.

One of my all-time favorite passenger cars.

Also, a bit late with these shots from the freight room in Lee Hall Depot, a restored 1881 C&O station, in Newport News VA where our club's traveling layout is set-up and running on Saturdays this month, except Christmas.

These are Sal's blunt end observation car from an MTH set, and a C&O caboose on Ed's mixed freight.

This is Murf's C&O heavyweight observation car in a train pulled by a LIONEL F-19 C&O steamer:

And this is Ed's C&O observation car and C&O caboose:

See you Saturday's between 10 and 4.

Be safe.

Great tail ends! I have nothing new for this morning.

Don, thanks for thinking of me, it was more or less cosmetic. My eyelid had turned in (which happens in older folks, sometimes), and it started to scratch my cornea. Surgery went well, and I’m fine. Here’s my 6419, and my newest caboose, made by Brother Love (Malcom).

Artie:  Glad to hear about your eye and beautiful Lackawanna caboose.

Don

Morning all, Pennsy caboose and a tail end of a P.R.R. observation car. Have a great day all

Rusty

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!  

Here's a several more of my shots of obs cars.

Sitka - nice shot, I really liked the shepherd figure with the cape and stick on the right side of the tracks...is that a commercial figure or did you make it?

Rusty - 1:1 shot from the caboose era is neat

Patrick - your pictures and the story they tell is always great to see

Jeff - great observation cars, esp the "Skytop"

Well just to continue Jeff's post on observation cars here is one from postwar Lionel.  The #2446 "Summit" observation car from 1956.

Best wishes for Tuesday and the rest of the week.

Don

Bought out in Syracuse, NY train show 5 years back or longer, If I remember the maker will gladly let you know Thanks

@Don McErlean posted:

Sitka - nice shot, I really liked the shepherd figure with the cape and stick on the right side of the tracks...is that a commercial figure or did you make it?

Rusty - 1:1 shot from the caboose era is neat

Patrick - your pictures and the story they tell is always great to see

Jeff - great observation cars, esp the "Skytop"

Well just to continue Jeff's post on observation cars here is one from postwar Lionel.  The #2446 "Summit" observation car from 1956.

Best wishes for Tuesday and the rest of the week.

Don