Whats' Your Favorite And/ Or Unusual Caboose?

I'll take a CB&Q NE12 any day.

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

I'll take a CB&Q NE12 any day.

Rusty

Same here. My buddy scratch built two of those, one for him and one for me. Mine is on the layout right now had sure gets lots of "WOW, GEE, where in the devil did you get THAT?" comments from visitors. My other "favorite" caboose is the NYC 19,000 series model from Mullett River (now out of business).

Penn Central N9 Transfer Caboose.  Kitbashed from a Lionel 40' PS-1 boxcar.

Penn Central N8A.  Kitbashed from an Atlas O NE-6.

Tom

Scratchbuilt Colorado Midland:

Of course it is no surprise, but I like N5C cabeese.

Never met a caboose I didn't like.

This will always be my favorite caboose as I have a soft spot in my heart for law enforcement.  Matt

That's a tough one!  If I had to pick a favorite, I'd go with the N5c.

My layout is loosely based on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 40s, so I like cabins from that era:

However, I really like my Bicentennial and Patriotic cabooses:

This one was comfortable. warm in the winter.. cushioned draw bar, captains chair at each end, stainless steel kitchen. inspection lights .... electric markers.... picture windows..

I wish I had a model of the side door cabooses sold by the FEC to several RR's including the Great Western . My 2nd choice would be the Colorado Midland side door shone above. I have a side door Colorado and Southern caboose from a Mullet kit and probably a dozen or more kit built, bashed, or scratched combine, side door, or drovers cabooses , but not those two.  I am much better at free lancing than building an actual scale model, although I have scale plans for both of my favorites.

I don't have a favorite caboose i like them all!!!! 

mine is a wig wag equipped ATSF caboose

and a close 2nd is a little more modern all red version

Because of its unique design, plus having grown up beside the B&O mainline, a "wagon top" is my choice.

These are just a few.

Pete

My favorite caboose is the one on the back of my wife.

-Greg

Greg I thought that was junk in the trunk 

Red Cross work caboose. I bought the Coast Guard set for the caboose of similar looks.  (Ok the operating boat was cool too and as close to a submarine as I had seen for years....yes I immediately took a bath with it...proudly )

N5CJonny posted:

Of course it is no surprise, but I like N5C cabeese.

That's my favorite as well.  I like all the PRR cabin cars, 2nd place is the N6b, followed by the N5 series.  

SP Bay Window.

Any PRR.

ATSF with red paint and big logo.

An unusual Penn Central "BROWN" not green N5c.

There front and almost center 23065.  There were three, MTH also made the 23070 which I also have but soon to sell off.

Why brown instead of the usual PC green.  After the PRR & NYC merger to PC, PP&L would not permit PC on there properties with anything but a brown cabin/caboose.  

This practice extended into the CR era also.  But I do not recall making any of these in CR.

PRRronbh posted:

An unusual Penn Central "BROWN" not green N5c.

There front and almost center 23065.  There were three, MTH also made the 23070 which I also have but soon to sell off.

Why brown instead of the usual PC green.  After the PRR & NYC merger to PC, PP&L would not permit PC on there properties with anything but a brown cabin/caboose.  

This practice extended into the CR era also.  But I do not recall making any of these in CR.

That is odd.

Whats the reasoning?

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

PRRronbh posted:

An unusual Penn Central "BROWN" not green N5c.

There front and almost center 23065.  There were three, MTH also made the 23070 which I also have but soon to sell off.

Why brown instead of the usual PC green.  After the PRR & NYC merger to PC, PP&L would not permit PC on there properties with anything but a brown cabin/caboose.  

This practice extended into the CR era also.  But I do not recall making any of these in CR.

That is odd.

 

Whats the reasoning?

Have never heard a rational.  Apparently PP&L had a hang-up with other then a brown cabin (or at least a Pennsy looking cabin).  And PP&L used a lot of coal so guess they had some sway.

Because much of my modeling deals with Mexican prototypes of the 1975-80 era, my favorite cabooses include side-door and outside-braced styles that survived much later than similar U.S. or Canadian cars. Even more common in desert regions were modern, steel cabooses with rooftop water tanks. All five major Mexican railroads (NdeM, Ferrocarril Pacifico, Sonora-Baja California, Chihuahua al Pacifico and Sureste) painted their cabooses yellow and the water tanks were silver.

As for favorite U.S. cabooses, I liked the short (I believe 24') Northern Pacific styles (both cupola and bay-window), some of which were later sold to SP&S.

Gil Hulin 

This is one of my favorite cabooses.

Here are some of my favorites!

Actually I like the Prr "Lines east" cabin car with the big angled "May West" 

Hello guys and gals........

My favorite one would be the one that is never made or hard to find that is a blue off-center coupla Santa Fe style caboose.   I guess I will have to paint one.   I been trying to find one but gave up.  If I could get yellow decals then I would paint one myself.  Does anyone make yellow "Santa Fe" name and "numbers", large yellow Santa Fe "cross" decals ?

Tiffany

PRRronbh posted:

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

PRRronbh posted:

An unusual Penn Central "BROWN" not green N5c.

There front and almost center 23065.  There were three, MTH also made the 23070 which I also have but soon to sell off.

Why brown instead of the usual PC green.  After the PRR & NYC merger to PC, PP&L would not permit PC on there properties with anything but a brown cabin/caboose.  

This practice extended into the CR era also.  But I do not recall making any of these in CR.

That is odd.

 

Whats the reasoning?

Have never heard a rational.  Apparently PP&L had a hang-up with other then a brown cabin (or at least a Pennsy looking cabin).  And PP&L used a lot of coal so guess they had some sway.

There were several N5c cabins painted in this scheme.  They were in assigned service to  PP&L service.  I assumed that the color was used to indicate that these cabins were only to be used on the PP&L trains and not in  general service.  As there were cabins/cabooses from all three predecessor roads in the yards, this scheme was unique to these cars. It would indicate to the yard crews that these cabins were off limits.  

Just my theory.

Tom

Tom Densel posted:

PRRronbh posted:

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

PRRronbh posted:

An unusual Penn Central "BROWN" not green N5c.

There front and almost center 23065.  There were three, MTH also made the 23070 which I also have but soon to sell off.

Why brown instead of the usual PC green.  After the PRR & NYC merger to PC, PP&L would not permit PC on there properties with anything but a brown cabin/caboose.  

This practice extended into the CR era also.  But I do not recall making any of these in CR.

That is odd.

 

Whats the reasoning?

Have never heard a rational.  Apparently PP&L had a hang-up with other then a brown cabin (or at least a Pennsy looking cabin).  And PP&L used a lot of coal so guess they had some sway.

There were several N5c cabins painted in this scheme.  They were in assigned service to  PP&L service.  I assumed that the color was used to indicate that these cabins were only to be used on the PP&L trains and not in  general service.  As there were cabins/cabooses from all three predecessor roads in the yards, this scheme was unique to these cars. It would indicate to the yard crews that these cabins were off limits.  

Just my theory.

Tom

Rotary dumpers typically have verily close clearances. These brown cabooses had modified steps and end platforms that enabled them to move through the rotary dumper of PPL without damaging either the dumper or the caboose, eliminating the need to switch them out of a loaded train. Their unique livery made them easily identifiable.  

Chris

we call'm Cabin Cars here.....

Yes, N5 cabin cars!

Tom

Lionel Erie bay window with red roof and flasher on the back.

wtjohn posted:

Because of its unique design, plus having grown up beside the B&O mainline, a "wagon top" is my choice.

I sat in one of those today!

Steamer posted:

we call'm Cabin Cars here.....

Cabins, crummies, hacks...a caboose by any other name would smell just as...

My favorite among my model cabooses is this one...I kit bashed it from two AHM 4 wheel bobbers for my Sierra & Northwestern.

Among prototype cabooses, it's a tie between Illinois Central's side door caboose and the Katy's outside braced model.

Logan

Dave Ripp. posted:

Any CB&Q or Burlington Northern but I really like this one.

That's not a caboose, it's a dynamometer car, full of instrumentation used for measuring locomotive performance.  When in use, it goes in behind the locomotives and before the train.

Rusty

The KCS Stainless steel caboose.  MTH did a nice job on this.

Country Joe posted:

This is one of my favorite cabooses.

 

That has the look of some of the flanger's without the blades.  I dig it.