Video shows Boston & Maine center cupola steel caboose #104647 (MTH 20-91088, March 2002, MSRP $54.95) trailing B&M 0-8-0 steam switcher #617 and three New England boxcars through the narrow cut on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.
MELGAR
Passenger trains running today:
@tnkMarx posted:
Time to get your tree!
Fine looking diorama tnk. 
I can get a whiff of those pine trees. 👃
A few SEASONAL TAILS ......
PE BERSHIRE....and tender.
PE taii
CARIBU tails
RAIL HAND CART .....tail ?....or.....
ELF tails ....or....elf tales. .......
NATIVITY TRAIN TAIL
....finally........🎵🎶.SLEIGH BELLS RING...🎵
HAPPY TET all. 
Marx Rock Island S3 switcher, 3 RI boxcars and an #17858 RI bay window caboose. Caboose from 1958-1959
Best wishes, hope your week is going well
Don
@Dallas Joseph posted:A few SEASONAL TAILS ......
PE BERSHIRE....and tender.
PE taii
CARIBU tails
RAIL HAND CART .....tail ?....or.....
ELF tails ....or....elf tales. .......
NATIVITY TRAIN TAIL
....finally........🎵🎶.SLEIGH BELLS RING...🎵
HAPPY TET all.
Dallas, great pictures,please show it again on another thread where you can show that everything about it
@mike g. posted:Mark I see the train platform is bustling this morning! I guess everyone is trying to get either home from Thanksgiving or heading out to family for Christmas!
I also see you have a little backup on the lines, Who's running this outfit! LOL
Great scenes!
Thanks Mike, making that long trip for Christmas
How's the layout making out? God Speed
MTH Premier
@pennsyfan posted:Dallas, great pictures,please show it again on another thread where you can show that everything about it
Thanks Bob.
What thread do I need to show it on Bob ? 🤔
If I showed everything about the layout I might get a RED STOP for burning up the Forum's MBs. 
Skytop passes the roundhouse
This is from a cheap Lionel set bought in the 70's
- walt
My Tail-End subject for this Tuesday 12/10/24 is New York Central wood-sided caboose #19654. It’s an MTH Railking model (30-7721, MSRP $39.95) delivered in 1998. I’ve posted it here many times but that’s because I run it so often. The video shows it on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout pulled by New York Central 0-4-0 steam locomotive #901.
MELGAR
Unmarked caboose sitting in a parking lot a little west of Waynesvillle, OH. I don't have much info on it other than it used to be in Waynesville a number years ago.
@tnkMarx posted:
Unmarked caboose sitting in a parking lot a little west of Waynesvillle, OH. I don't have much info on it other than it used to be in Waynesville a number years ago.
Also strange that the windows have been covered; but not a patch job. It appears that it was resided.
Here is an old Atlas Burlington that's actually a 2 rail. It always finds a spot on a siding.
Well, T.E.T. friends, I will admit the "tail end" of this consist is just one passenger car aft of the tender but so be it! This is a HWN (Heinrich Wimmer, Nuremberg) post war, German import dating back to the 1950's or even as late as the early 1960's. She is clockwork powered and manages to pull her very short consist without too much trouble, likely could handle perhaps one more car but I don't have another car 
. She has plastic vice tinplate wheels hence my dating is from 1950's on, likely '51-'53 at the earliest. I have no idea what the "G W 763" stands for, perhaps the W is for Wimmer but I don't know.
Hope everyone's Tuesday is going well. Best Wishes
Don
Enjoy your Tail End Tuesday all!
Here’s a Reading caboose , by Williams, stranded somehow on the lower level…. It’s out of its box for the first time in many years !
Rich
Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!
Two Tail Ends today. CN engine with an empty gondola load & the Polar Express observation car under the tree.
I recently purchased a Lionel Legacy model (2431660) of New York Central 4-6-0 ten-wheeler #1244 but didn’t have a green New York Central passenger car to run behind it, so I purchased the unlettered parlor car (Atlas O Premier 3007040) shown in these photos and a video taken on my 10’-by-5’ layout. I expect to leave the car unlettered to run with other engines for which I don’t have the correct passenger cars.
I should also mention that today is the 121st anniversary of the first flight of a powered airplane by Orville Wright on December 17th, 1903. It was a milestone in human progress - just as was the railroad.
MELGAR
I have a few variations of tail ends today.
First the ponies in the corral.
Next the tailends of the bikers as the pull up to Browns Harley Davidson shop.
As I posted the picture, I realized there’s a bonus tail end. The Christmas bobber caboose writing on the roof to be attached to the Christmas Train.
last but not least Lionel 712 observation car and the MARX M100005 observation car. The MARX train is 3 rail . It temporarily stored on the 2 rail track awaiting shelf space
Here is a recent acquisition at the Fox River Trolly Museum.
Lionel Tail End
Well here is a tail end from an old American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) passenger set. Sorry folks, I am really late today. I was grading my students Final Exam papers all day, have to submit grades tomorrow. So tonight everyone has an "A" tomorrow there are going to be some disappointments. But after tomorrow I am done till mid Jan so I get to play trains!!
Best Wishes everyone and Happy Holidays!
Don
My tail end view for this week is New Haven Railroad NE-6 caboose C-667 running behind New Haven Alco RS-3 #527 on my 10’-by-5’ layout. The NE-6 was a standard caboose design produced by the International Car Company of Kenton, Ohio in the 1940s. According to data on the side of the model, it was new in November 1950. Locomotive #527 also began service on the New Haven Railroad in 1950.
New Haven C-667 is an Atlas O model (6671) delivered in April 2003 at MSRP $69.95. The model was rerun twice in 2004, and once again in 2007, 2009, and 2015 with different road numbers and paint schemes. Another run scheduled for 2017 was cancelled.
MELGAR
Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, the kids and the dog were running all about like a mouse.
My wife and I were wrapping gifts so the kids wouldn’t hear, but once or twice I tried to sneak away to the train room and away from my dear.
I wanted to run trains turning left & right, but I was called back to my duties and craziness in sight.
As the day wore on, it was quite clear, I needed a photo for Tail End Tuesday was here.
Happy Holiday Season to all running your trains and grinning ear to ear.
Here’s a well detailed K-Line O/O27 observation car. From the K4549A 4-PAC, 1999. Since it had an MPN ending in A, I’ve searched high & low for B, or C, etc., to add on to the 4 pac. No joy. Don’t think any add-ons were made.
A picture I took 11 years ago for a friend's wedding.
Tail end of a to be painted N6a PRR cabin.
A few of my tail ends posing today:
My tail end for today is my Christmas Bobber caboose bringing up the rear on Santa’s train.
Well I know that I have shown this picture somewhere before, But it is Christmas eve and that is a NYC work caboose, so here is my "celebratory" Tail End for Tuesday, 24 December!
Best Wishes, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year
Don
Just got an email from Charles Ro that my Pennsy Vision N6b caboose has shipped. Forgot how much this was; I think only the Vision Horse car was more. I have Sunset brass passenger cars that cost less. Oh well, I really wanted to see if I liked the ability to uncouple the caboose for shifting movements like swapping out a boxcar at an industrial siding.
Photos next week.
Have safe Christmas Eve All.
Great tail ends everyone! I hope your flashing them to your guest for Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and your Family!
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