Tail End Tuesday

Brass C&O woodside caboose imported by Rich Yoder.

Ken

MTH bobber heading in for the evening.

Sit back and take it easy for the rest of this TET all.

God Speed

Happy TET fellow forumites!!! Here’s another Lionel custom rum from Gryzboski’s… a bay window caboose in the current paint scheme.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   Tail end of a jet powered snow blower and MOW pickup truck.  Both are at the tail end of a spur.

At the tail end of my train this Friday are New York Central cabooses #19877 and #380 – pulled by Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 0-6-0T #15 on the O-36 inner loop which runs through a narrow rock cut on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The cabooses were made by MTH.

When I built the layout, the inner part was open for access but I didn’t like the way it looked, so I filled it in and added a truss bridge, hills, and the O-36 inner loop. The rock cut was made to look like the cut on the Hudson Line of the New York Central Railroad just south of the Spuyten Duyvil station. Does anyone see a resemblance?

MELGAR

MTH Premier

Here are 2 Tail Ends on this Tuesday.

@kanawha posted:

Brass C&O woodside caboose imported by Rich Yoder.

Ken

Ken

Who makes the Station , I like it.

Some crumb box on Tail End Tuesday

This “tail end” Amtrak Cabbage Unit will become a “front end” on Friday, LOL:

@Jim Teeple posted:

Ken

Who makes the Station , I like it.

Jim,

I built that station more than a decade ago from a wood laser kit and I don't remember who made it. It is almost identical to a standard C&O station but the kit was marketed as being some other railroad's station. I haven't seen another for sale in years. Here's a couple of better views:

Ken

Well its hard to tell the back from the front, but here is the local trolley having just delivered a bunch of commuters to work, moving back on the line to return to center city Savannah to gather up another load for the waterfront.

Best Wishes for a great Tuesday.

Don

@kanawha posted:

Jim,

I built that station more than a decade ago from a wood laser kit and I don't remember who made it. It is almost identical to a standard C&O station but the kit was marketed as being some other railroad's station. I haven't seen another for sale in years. Here's a couple of better views:

Ken

Ken

Thank you so much for the photo, saved them to my future projects file.

Jim

My tail-end subject for Tuesday 11/26/2024 is an MTH model (20-91036) of New Haven extended-vision caboose C-692. It was delivered in 2001 at MSRP $44.95 and has been on my shelf ever since but never run until now. It isn’t prototypical. The New Haven never had an extended-vision caboose, although some New Haven steel cabooses were painted black with block “NH” letters, like the model.

Photos and videos show C-692 at the tail-end of a freight train pulled by New Haven Alco RS-3 #531 (model by Atlas O Trainman) on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Here's some frosty rears for this fine Tuesday!

Conductor Bert Dasher steps out on the rear deck of the caboose for some fresh air.  As the temps are in the low 20's he'll soon be back inside his caboose enjoying the warmth provided by the potbelly stove.

Ol' Bert can hear the action overhead but he sure wishes he could see what's going on.  

My Tailends for this Tuesday are a Brooklin Models ‘58 Pontiac  Bonneville and a ‘55 Pontiac StarChief, unknown maker. The drivers are both waiting for the Tailend of the trolley to move down the street.

@pennsyfan posted:

My Tailends for this Tuesday are a Brooklin Models ‘58 Pontiac  Bonneville and a ‘55 Pontiac StarChief, unknown maker. The drivers are both waiting for the Tailend of the trolls to move down the street.

I'm not well versed in classic Pontiac rear ends so I don't know if he's driving the Bonneville or the StarChief bu the guy on the left needs to pay more attention to the road and less to his girlfriend.

Tuesday Tail Ends.  CV Alco S2 by MTH & a semi full of Christmas trees ready for those early birds.

A couple of tail ends from a relaxing run session yesterday.

Gene

Some of my UP cabooses waiting for service on this rainy “Tail End Tuesday” here on California’s Central Coast:

@coach joe posted:

I'm not well versed in classic Pontiac rear ends so I don't know if he's driving the Bonneville or the StarChief bu the guy on the left needs to pay more attention to the road and less to his girlfriend.

It the Bonneville and it’s the ‘50s man don’t be a stick in the mud. 😂

Well one of the more unusual Marx 4 wheel lightweight freight cars is the C-350 Monon caboose. While no where near "rare" it is on the more unusual side especially since Monon was not one of Marx's more common RR names.  I happened upon this caboose at an auction, threw in a very low bid and likely because no one else wanted it I won!  So here is the Marx, lightweight, plastic Monon C-350 caboose.

Happy T.E.T. everyone.

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

My Tailends for this Tuesday are a Brooklin Models ‘58 Pontiac  Bonneville and a ‘55 Pontiac StarChief, unknown maker. The drivers are both waiting for the Tailend of the trolley to move down the street.

I like the rear fender skirts on the StarChief, and even though the guy in the Bonneville is on a collision course with the (49?) Ford, at least he's staying clear of the trolley tracks. I do remember what it was like to drive across trolley tracks in the pavement...especially if the street was paved with cobblestones.

MELGAR

Exiting Toad Hollow Tunnel and passing Bohemian Falls on the Redwood Empire Route.

@MELGAR posted:

I like the rear fender skirts on the StarChief, and even though the guy in the Bonneville is on a collision course with the (49?) Ford, at least he's staying clear of the trolley tracks. I do remember what it was like to drive across trolley tracks in the pavement...especially if the street was paved with cobblestones.

MELGAR

That ‘49 Ford is a police vehicle. The Bonneville driver is waiting for the trolley to pass. I too remember the tracks in the cobble stones on several lines in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.

PW Lionel Observation car passing Rio Grande caboose on Tail End Tuesday