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Road Pictures of Cabooses

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Road Pictures of Cabooses
Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, September 8, 2019 9:43 PM

I'll start

Personally I like the red ones

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, September 8, 2019 9:47 PM

I like red cabooses as well.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:13 PM

I like red:

 Middlefield_0001 by Edmund, on Flickr

and yellow:

 B&O_W3readytrack by Edmund, on Flickr

— and green:

 PC_21070-6040 by Edmund, on Flickr

By "Road" caboose you're looking for main-line cabooses only?

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:17 PM

Cheers to you too EdYes

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:25 PM

I guess this works one of my favorite pictures back from Hugo 

 

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:37 PM

Here I am with three good friends, Teresa, the late Joe Sullivan and the B&O C-2170.

 BnO_C-2170 by Edmund, on Flickr

Same caboose in my first reply but with a spiffy paint job.

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Posted by dstarr on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:43 PM

This one is parked in Woodsville NH, less trucks, and looking a little shabby. I have no idea what railroad might have owned it.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:47 PM

dstarr
I have no idea what railroad might have owned it.

I believe that's the Central Vermont 4020:

 Central Vermont Railway by Gerard Donnelly, on Flickr

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, September 9, 2019 2:21 AM

Here are a few....

Monongahela (ex-NYC)...

These are at a nearby winery, owned by a railfan...

...These are at the East Broad Top...

...Illinois Railway Museum...

...another ex-NYC, on the Finger Lakes Railway...

This one's at the New Castle Industrial Railroad...

CPR cabooses, at North Bay, Ontario...

CNR caboose on a work train, near Bayview...

Most of these TH&B cabooses were at either Aberdeen Yard or the TH&B carshops, both in Hamilton, Ont.....

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, September 9, 2019 7:03 AM

This one is in Alabama showing severe damage from Hurricane Michael, but I think it is very interesting.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, September 9, 2019 7:18 AM

A fellow I know in Indiana is restoring this D&TSL caboose:

 DTSL_120cab by Edmund, on Flickr

 RR_views_0037 by Edmund, on Flickr

Another friend did the same with this Central Vermont caboose:

 RR_views_4043 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by dti406 on Monday, September 9, 2019 7:31 AM

A member of the DT&I Modelers Group spent a lot moving and restoring a DT&I Caboose.

An ex Ann Arbor (Wabash Design) design at the Malinta, OH Historical Society.

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Posted by rogerhensley on Monday, September 9, 2019 8:09 AM

1962 - Big Four Cabooses...

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Posted by BRAKIE on Monday, September 9, 2019 9:15 AM

A C&O Caboose. Columbus,Oh 1963.

 

 

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Posted by nealknows on Monday, September 9, 2019 9:28 AM

Photos taken May 2018 at the Railway Heritage Park in Squamish, BC Canada

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Posted by BigDaddy on Monday, September 9, 2019 6:05 PM

Revelstoke RR Museum, taken from the Rocky Mountaineer

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, September 9, 2019 6:47 PM

Good shot Henry, were you moving at the time?

Brookmere B.C.

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Posted by mlehman on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:03 AM

This thread doesn't have enough B&W pics...

It's not much to look at here, but it was glorious in real life. It's one of the International Car Company 81501-81509 series cabooses, maybe 81503? crossing Rockport Road southwest of Bloomington, Indiana in 1971 while working the Monon's maple Hill Branch in quarry-to-mill service.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:27 AM

P&LE 510 brand new in B&W:

 PLE_510 by Edmund, on Flickr

and the interior in color:

 PLE_550b by Edmund, on Flickr

 PLE_550 by Edmund, on Flickr

I have a couple of those Aladdin Caboose lamps in my collection. They burn with a bright, white light. Good to read by Yes

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 6:15 AM

I saw this one in Georgia recently.

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:20 PM

Ok I hope I don't sound like a girl. But I think Caboose's are "cute" LOL (like thomas the train cute) am I the only one that thinks that?

Here's my contribution. This one is at Colorado Railway Museum.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:40 PM

Hello.... How are all you guys doing?  A lot of great looking cabeese here. 

I finally got back to some modeling today,  unfortunately the reason is being home from wxxk with a swollen kneeTongue Tied

I got another caboose for ya.

Osceola Wisconsin.  Thanks for sharing all the caboosesSmile, Wink & Grin

 

TF

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:03 PM

Buckingham Branch #223 while riding Amtrak through Charlottesville, Virginia back in 2006.

 IMG_0545 by Edmund, on Flickr

 IMG_0547 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:41 PM

This one is in the entryway to a technical college.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, September 13, 2019 7:30 AM

One up in the air in Jackson Tennessee.

Does that look safe? Whistling

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, September 13, 2019 7:35 AM

Track fiddler
Does that look safe? Whistling

I dunno?  Will it withstand 100 MPH winds?


 

 

Well, you did say you wanted Road Caboose photos? Here's a caboose on the road!

 B&O_Caboose2_Mid by Edmund, on Flickr

That Peterbilt is actually on the old B&O right-of-way through Middlefield, Ohio.

 B&O_Caboose_Mid by Edmund, on Flickr

The "brakeman" had to ride the roof to keep wires from snagging.

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Posted by Mark B on Friday, September 13, 2019 1:21 PM

No pictures- but saw a DM&IR RR caboose (number unknown) on a drop deck semi trailer heading south from Superior WI about 3 weeks ago. Caboose trucks were on the trailer of the semi following the one carrying the caboose body. Figured some one has a project in the works. Any one have any info about it?

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Posted by robert sylvester on Friday, September 13, 2019 1:49 PM

Confused Besides the up in the air picture in Jackson, Tn which is located at the Casey Jones Museum on I-40. Great place to visit and eat. Casey's home is also there, they moved it from down town.

There is also another museum at Jackson, the NC SC&L Museum which on South Royal at the old NC SC&L train depot which is open, packed with memorabelia and pictures, along with a nice HO layout.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, September 14, 2019 5:17 PM

Florida East Coast caboose, 1972  in Homestead, Florida:

 Florida East Coast Caboose by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, September 14, 2019 5:21 PM

Time for a yellow caboose I saw in Missouri.

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