Tail End Tuesday

@pennsyfan posted:

@trumpettrain   Patrick, as per your usual nice shots of your Tail Ends. Is that a Dimestore Dream auto?

Bob - the car with the Coca Cola emblem on the side is a Road Champs car I bought back in the mid 2000s.   I assume it's a Coca Cola salesman's company car.  

Here's my rears for today:  "The Tail of Two Switchers."

Have a good TET

Running NYC Dreyfuss Hudsons (plural) Friday at Bob's nice layout just as one of the consists passes. Seems am always focusing on only the locomotives/engines rather than the rear end!  This is a K-Line 21" former Amtrak set that someone stripped years ago. I haul them out occasionally when appropriate and needed.

wow....TET again.   Here's a few.

Stay safe everyone.

Man, that black Charger is pretty sharp - Don't recall seeing one of those models before..

@c.sam posted:

Man, that black Charger is pretty sharp - Don't recall seeing one of those models before..

Thanks c.sam.   I think the station manager gets time to polish it.

I picked it up a awhile back when our local model train dealer was still in business.    On the bottom it shows that it is a GREENLIGHT collectable made for Warner Bros. from China.

Photos and video show my MTH model of New Haven Railroad caboose C-649 on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad. This caboose is not prototypical for the New Haven Railroad, which never had a caboose of this type…

MELGAR

MTH

A new tail end for this TET.

Gene

tail end to my Aerotrain trailing car.

- walt

Still waiting to see daylight again!

Just before Thanksgiving, 1949… looks like a lot of folks are on the way to that toddlin’ town for the holiday - they needed a second section.

One of my more recent favorites is the Lionel crew talk caboose:

Burlington Junction train backing through a switch, Montgomery Illinois.

Some ladies getting a free ride downtown

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   Back end of a N&W J class locomotive.  

@Apples55, Paul seeing the tail ends of your 20TH Century Limiteds made me see that I do need to remove some more of the horizontal bars from my Williams tail end.

CN at the tail end today.

Well here is the front end and the rear end of my new "Galloping Goose" , its so short you get both ends at the same time

Here are a couple of video's of her in action.

Best Wishes

Don

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Thanks c.sam.   I think the station manager gets time to polish it.

I picked it up a awhile back when our local model train dealer was still in business.    On the bottom it shows that it is a GREENLIGHT collectable made for Warner Bros. from China.

That's the Black Charger from the iconic Steve McQueen car chase in the movie Bullitt.

Boston & Maine caboose #104647 (MTH 20-91088, March 2002, $54.95) is at the tail-end of a train powered by B&M 2-8-0 #2403 on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The locomotive is a Weaver die-cast model of a Baldwin Consolidation.

MELGAR

Here’s PRR Porthole Caboose  877347 on the tail end of a giraffe train. Actually 7 giraffes. 2 elephants and a reindeer. Lionel RS11 8618 is on the point.

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

I've explained numerous times here that I can't set up a scene, photo it, and post it - I have to use pictures that I already have.  Many times they are not the ideal shot, like today's, but at least they fit the topic.

Here's the tail end of my Baby Blue Comet tin-plate set and partially visible the tail end of my tin-plate Christmas train (as MTH called it).

I just now had to laugh at it.  I noticed the title and the intent of the photo had nothing to do with the trains

- walt

Well here is my Williams 44 T for the UP and the matching Marx 3824 UP caboose.

Happy Tuesday everyone.  We had RAIN yesterday and last night , first time in well over a month!!  Maybe drought is over.

Don

Its TET on the first Tuesday of November.  I noticed a while back that Lionel cabooses seem to be a tad narrower than MTH, especially since I use them for TET.  
Have a great day!

Tail end of a work train have a good TET

I think I took this photo in Mendota Illinois.

A good TET wish to all.

Ps3 / Premier.

..........and a friend's rear.

God Speed until the next TET

Lionel - did Great Northern use trainphones?

In one of the continuing strange saga's of the toy train world, Hafner produced TWO streamlined cabooses, one short and one long.  This is the "long" caboose, listed in the Hafner catalog as No. 404. This caboose itself came in two varieties, one red and white and this one red and yellow.  The long cars at 6 3/4" long first appeared in 1938 and are controversial with collectors as some believe them too long for their wheelbase. The short cars, very similar in styling and lithography are 5 5/16" long and made about the same time, perhaps a little later, are liked better by some collectors because of their better match in scale to the available locomotives.    However, the long cars  are nicely made and brightly colored and were very popular with the then also new 1010 steam locomotive also first produced in 1938.  These cars lasted until the end of the Hafner era in 1951 but were not carried over into the Wyandotte line when they took over the company in 1951.

Note that this car clearly reflects the "craze of streamlining" that took place in the US in the later part of the 1930's.  In fact the copula is so low and streamlined, it is hard to believe it would be useful for anything and clearly not provide any useful visual advantage for observing the train. Hafner even labeled the freight cars..."streamliners" both in a broad band at the top and in the logo on the side and doors.  

The 3057 was produced both pre and post war for many years and came in at least two color schemes both red/yellow and red/ white (I only have this red/yellow version).  It came in many sets and the one I have is posted below.  Note the red/chrome Type 1 1010 loco , most likely made in the late 1930's although positive dating of Hafner is almost impossible without the set box.  This set is rather deluxe because of the use of the 6 3/4" streamline freights and the chrome trim / side panels.

I know I am early for T.E.T. but I am tied up tomorrow so am posting late Monday evening.

Best Wishes

Don

Burlington Northern Mendota Illinois.

New Haven Railroad Extended-Vision Caboose C-649 is at the tail end of a short freight train headed by NH GE U25B #2507. The caboose is MTH 20-91021 delivered in December 1999 at MSRP $44.95. The New Haven didn’t actually have this type of caboose…

MELGAR

Railking - last stack car has eotd

Pennsy steel cabin car model N5e built at the Altoona shops in 1929, Also did service with Penn Central and Conrail retired mid 1980s. Have a good TET

Here are two of my favorites now retired and relaxing on a shelf in my office:

Tail Ends in the yard.

I shot this Saturday at the Allentown First Frost Meet. Thank you, Independent Hirailers!

Chris

P&O