Tail End Tuesday

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here I am again on Monday night posting to T.E. Tuesday Sorry can't help it, we have to travel to Ft. Worth early on Tuesday mornings 2 out of 3 weeks for my wife's chemotherapy.  So I try and post on Monday hope that's ok.  I really enjoy these "day of the week" threads and love looking at everyone's input and pictures.  

Here is a view of the end railing and brake wheel.  Note the box is hand written. Not sure if this was a standard practice at MPC or not (doubt it) likely this is just an "extra box"...note the price label @ $30 is inaccurate...I didn't pay near that much.

Well best wishes everyone for T.E.T (on Monday night!!)

Don

Another great, colorful piece of MPC livery, Don. I have a couple of MPC era boxes with similar hand written ID info on the end of the box - not sure if it was standard practice, but it did happen. And you’ve got nothing to apologize for… it’s already Tuesday in London Hope everything goes well tomorrow (does that make it Wednesday in London???).

Paul...LONDON!!  Wow I never knew you were in the UK.  Sally and I loved London, when I worked for the Navy since we had so many joint programs with both the RAF and RN we got to go there reasonably often.  I even got to Whitehall (once ).  Thanks for your comment, Sally and I have been together since 1960! Been fighting this daxx...disease for the last 3 years, but she is feisty and a fighter (always was) so I have good hope.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here I am again on Monday night posting to T.E. Tuesday Sorry can't help it, we have to travel to Ft. Worth early on Tuesday mornings 2 out of 3 weeks for my wife's chemotherapy.  So I try and post on Monday hope that's ok.  I really enjoy these "day of the week" threads and love looking at everyone's input and pictures.  So today, I have my BRAND NEW (to me) Minneapolis and St. Louis Bay Window caboose from Lionel (MPC) in 1978-79. 

Well best wishes everyone for T.E.T (on Monday night!!)

Don

Nice looking caboose Don.        I ordered the same type for my Duluth Masabe & Iron Range steamer.

Not to worry about the early TET reply sir .  My first wife went through that too.   Really decent of you to make sure you contribute to the Forum for our enjoyment.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!

Have a nice TET all

Here’s another favorite that’s on my layout most of the time: the Postwar Celebration version of the classic bay window caboose, based on the real Erie caboose. It’s fairly scale, except for width, being a scale foot and a half narrower.

Here's a quick TeT photo for this fine Tuesday.

My new SP SW8 is a busy little guy these days, getting my money's worth. LoL

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!

Another fine photo Patrick! I like the cabover, I'm thinking around 1965 Ford from the rear-end Matches nicely with the UP trailer too!

Everyone beautiful tail ends on your nice model railroads, amazing. Here’s my few. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Everyone beautiful tail ends on your nice model railroads, amazing. Here’s my few. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry, that's a lot of tail ends!!! Nice caboose's, or is that cabeese? ;-) City of Denver Streamliner is very nice! Thanks for the awesome photos.

@Dallas Joseph :  Thanks for the encouraging words...appreciate you comment.  Sitka a great and classic PW Lionel work caboose.  Artie-DL&W hey "Bay Windows" are good, great looking caboose. Leapinlarry - spectacular trains and scenes...thanks for posting...and you had a "bay window" as well. 

Best wishes

Don

This topic got me thinking - how many cabins do I have?  My database says 23, but I could only find photos for these.  Some are in my train show boxes, and a couple are in my Bicentennial collection but that leave several others I need to find.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Another fine photo Patrick! I like the cabover, I'm thinking around 1965 Ford from the rear-end Matches nicely with the UP trailer too!

Thanks so much Scott!   I picked up the cabover tractor used  at a train show.  Since it came with no box, I'm guessing its an early to mid sixties tractor.   The sign on each cab door reads Delta Trucking.  It certainly matches the UP trailers for sure!  

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Another fine photo Patrick! I like the cabover, I'm thinking around 1965 Ford from the rear-end Matches nicely with the UP trailer too!

Ford produced that cab Style (C-700) from the mid fifties all the way up to 1990

@CAPPilot posted:

This topic got me thinking - how many cabins do I have?  My database says 23, but I could only find photos for these.  Some are in my train show boxes, and a couple are in my Bicentennial collection but that leave several others I need to find.

Ron those N5's are K-Line's versions correct?

Ron

@shasta posted:

Ford produced that cab Style (C-700) from the mid fifties all the way up to 1990

Shasta, yup, you're correct. The Ford C-500 through C-900 body had little to no changes from 1957 thru 1990. I just took a stab at the year in the reply to Patrick. No way to really know without the VIN. The diesel versions added another 0 to the number (C-8000 etc.) I guess the Ford truck engineers went on hiatus for 33 years! After all, it is just commercial truck and doesn't have to be trendy I guess! The C series was so common in those days, it was a tractor + trailer, bobtail, tow truck, fire engine, you name it.

Nice tails Larry.  I've got two of these K-line beauties destined to become fantasy GN units.  I picked them up at a LHS for about $25 each.  I believe the retail on these was $69 with actual purchase pricing in the $50-$60 range so for $25 apiece and a need for nice GN cabeese home they came.  The same situation arose with a couple of K-line UP Railroad Police Bay Windows.  Couldn't leave it price was $27 each.  One now serves Conrail the other went into service on the BNSF before the two orange ones arrived on property.

Patrick's Delta lines cabover tractor is one of the Athern 1/50 scale trucks put out years ago.  Athern wisely didn't put a year on them but as Scott said about the 1/1 scale Ford the Athern one could be had as a tractor, stake body, box truck or snorkel fire engine.

The tail end of the Phoebe Snow’s famous tavern lounge car.

Have a good TET all, a repainted Junker I picked up,

@Artie-DL&W posted:

The tail end of the Phoebe Snow’s famous tavern lounge car.

..........and nice looking autos too  Artie.

Thanks, Dallas! I think they came on an Industrial Rail flatcar, once Atlas took over the line.

Here's a little action with Santa Fe on the siding for some track side service for TeT.

Wow, for some strange reason, Tail End Tuesdays Roll around fast as I’m getting older, and the pictures are also getting a lot more interesting…. So, Happy Tail End Tuesday to everyone…. (The Real trains are located at The North Carolina Transportation Museum) Happy Railroading Everyone

Well I agree with Larry, Tuesday seems to roll around fast...and its nearly 1830 out here on the frontier!  So I thought I would post a late entry (as opposed to the early one last week - )  Now on 1/18 I posted the Lionel # 2457 Penn N5 Post War caboose from 1945-47.  We commented then that this was a carry-over from the prewar model and the main differences were that it was red not tuscan and had postwar trucks and couplers.  So today, I would like to show you a PRE-War model of the sheet metal PRR N5 caboose, which in fact was two models.  A "deluxe" version # 2757 with a body much like the post war model.  It had window frames, interior lights and a stack, although it was tuscan not red.  I don't have that one, so here is the "base model" PRR sheet metal N5 caboose or the # 2672 caboose from 1942.

Note the economy touches...no window frames, no illumination and the end windows in the cupola are not punched out.  Still all sheet metal though with lots of rivet detail and metal ladders and brake wheels.  It does have black journals and frame and one  "automatic "  box coupler.  These last touches represent just about Lionel's last pre-war attempt at greater realism.  1945 would bring large changes for sure but that was years in the future when she was new on the rails.

Note the latest version of the pre war Lionel "automatic" coupler with the knuckle and coupler pin simulated on the top of the coupler box.

Well that's my "tail end" for today.  Have a great week everyone!  Larry - loved that "R J Corman" caboose, had not seen that before.  By the way, this caboose was likely one of Lionel's best PRR cabin cars of both the pre and post war period, all sheet metal and metal trim, it far exceeded some of the mostly plastic cars that came later and especially that came in some of the early MPC offerings.  However I don't know how close to prototypical it really was.  CAPPilot and PRRonbh you guys are the  real PRR experts, what do you say?   Great pictures everyone. Thanks for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Tail End Tuesday is here again. I really love cabooses and hated it when the railroads stopped using them. This is one of my Southern Pacific cabooses. Happy Tail End Tuesday to you all.

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Nice photo Patrick. 

The bird houses are a nice addition to the scene and that caboose you weathered really looks at home in the scene.

@NYC Fan posted:

Nice Tail Ends Skip.

@PRRronbh posted:

Ron those N5's are K-Line's versions correct?

Ron

Most are.  The top photo is a K-Line and an O -Line.  The top row of the second photo are K-Line, bottom are MTH.  The Bicentennial is MTH I think.

Patrick that's a mighty interesting tail end.  What type of auto is that?  I'm sure Don Corleone is very comfortable in the back seat.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice photo Patrick.

The bird houses are a nice addition to the scene and that caboose you weathered really looks at home in the scene.

Thanks so much Dallas!

@coach joe posted:

Patrick that's a mighty interesting tail end.  What type of auto is that?  I'm sure Don Corleone is very comfortable in the back seat.

That is a Lincoln tail end.  Yes, the Don is riding rather comfortably in the back seat after taking care of some business down at the railroad yard

My goodness here I am the guy who is normally either late or early being the first to post this week.  Well no matter, T.E.T. is one of my favorite threads especially because caboose's (cabese?) are the car with the highest number of variations at least in my little collection.  Here is one from Lionel in 1959, now nearing retirement age (63), and probably not that much of a stand out when she was new.  She only has one coupler and no illumination and plastic side trucks...so not a high end offering for sure.  However her Railroad, Alaska RR, would always make her a bit unusual.

So here is my "tail end" for this week.  The Lionel #6027 Alaska RR caboose from 1959,

Hope your week is going well.  Best Wishes.

Don

Have a great T.E.T. all! Since Don opened with an Alaska Crummy, I will follow

Sitka!!  Go Alaska!! Neat caboose.

Don

"Holy cabooses, Batman!"

BAR GP7 #63 :  Great scenes, but it looks as though the "Shark Bay" Railroad needs to get a few of its loco's and rolling stock over to the paint shop - remember deferred maintenance just cost's you money.    (LOL!)

Best Wishes and great scenery / pictures

Don