Show Your Cabooses...

[steemtrayn]

Hey, I'd love to, but Spooky, my female Maine Coon cat keeps STEALING the darned things!

Tom

Get her a male cat to play with.

[spidge]

  

      Just my two plain old SP cabeese:

 

sure would be nice to have a couple of those in N-scale for my layout.

Aren't there any bay windows available in "N" .  I took two and painted them myself, these aren't factory paint. I think one was a NYC origionally.

Hey Jerry, thats what its coming down to. I have very little experience with an airbrush, but I do own one. This would make a cool project.

[mikesmowers]

   I am shocked, all these beautiful caboose here and not a single BN here. I can do something about that:

   And here is one that has been abandonded for some time:

  All very impressive.     Mike
 

[GAPPLEG]

  

      Just my two plain old SP cabeese:

 

sure would be nice to have a couple of those in N-scale for my layout.

Aren't there any bay windows available in "N" .  I took two and painted them myself, these aren't factory paint. I think one was a NYC origionally.

[fiatfan]

Here's an old 4 wheel bobber I modified follwing an article in MR sometime in the '60s.  I moved the cupola to one end, replace the roof walk, and replaced the handrails.  It's been following me around since then.  One of these days, I need to upgrade it with better handrails, a new paint job, and possibly marker lights.

Tom 

[spidge]

  

      Just my two plain old SP cabeese:

 

sure would be nice to have a couple of those in N-scale for my layout.

[Milepost 266.2]

I wonder how many of us remember a time when the question at the masthead would have garnered a whole different set of responses.  

Mark.

I was just worried that this was going to end up like that 7-Up "show us your can" commercial from a few years back...

[twhite]

Hey, I'd love to, but Spooky, my female Maine Coon cat keeps STEALING the darned things!

Tom

[selector]

I wonder how many of us remember a time when the question at the masthead would have garnered a whole different set of responses.  

Mark.

YYYYeessssssss!!!  Finally.

You are definitely the Man, Mark.

Now, to get back with the intent of the thread, and I apologize if my outburst seems a bit overboard (just having a bit of fun), I only have one decent photo with one of my cabeese, so here it is.  Hard to make out, but it is an Atlas Trainman Wooden NYC one.  I will weather it one of these years.

[Mark R.]

I wonder how many of us remember a time when the question at the masthead would have garnered a whole different set of responses.  

Mark.

[GAPPLEG]

  

      Just my two plain old SP cabeese:

 

[Driline]

An Athearn caboose I painted and weathered after copying the real caboose.

 

[dragenrider]

When I first started to paint a caboose for my shortline, Cedar Branch & Western, I wanted a traditional red caboose.  This was one of the first red ones:

 

It was a little blah, so I changed to a Northern Pacific inspired scheme.  OK, inspiration had nothing to do with it.   The real reason I switched was that I found a set of unfinished cabooses on Ebay!

 

Then, Athearn produced the John Deere series of cars.  This caboose fit right in with a little lettering modification.

I have a total of four green & yellow cabooses.  In addition, I have a Turtle Creek Central caboose made by replacing the lettering on a Western Pacific unit. 

 

[pike-62]

 

S scale EL Bicentennial 

Brass Erie

Resin Erie

Proto 2000 LV

D&H sesquicentennial HO

D&H sesquicentennial N

The rest are N SCALE

 

Dan Pikulski

ww.DansResinCasting.com

[wm3798]

Lee

[selector]

I wonder how many of us remember a time when the question at the masthead would have garnered a whole different set of responses.

[tomkat-13]

here are some of mine.....

[UP2CSX]

Mark, that is a fine example of kitbashing. I know some of those parts weren't too easy to get right either. Great work!

I guess I'll have to take some pics of mine but the "fleet" is pretty pitiful compared to a lot of you here. Let's see, two CA-3 UP, two safety slogan CSX, one GM&O, one NKP and one Southern caboose under constuction, and one kitbashed Trains Miniature caboose from my former freelanced railroad of 25 years ago. That stands in for the Southern and NKP till I get 'em done.

[mikelhh]

 My Athearn D&H caboose

 

 Mike 

[Anonymous]

I've got a CPRail wide-vision, in the multimark scheme, and a old CN steel one, in orange. Those are the active ones, although the CN hasn't been used in a while.

[Mark R.]

I can add an end-cupola D&H caboose to the list. It was kitbashed from a Proto 2000 northeastern caboose ....

Mark.

[Anonymous]

Two PRR Cabooses, one Chessie Bay window, several RTR Atlas RTR's, one of these is WM.

Looking for a Brass B&O Wagontop for early 2008.I dont recall the rest of the cabooses, they come and they go.

  http://img516.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prrcabooserl9.jpg

 

[wedudler]

This was a Walthers CB&Q caboose, Westport Terminal has bought it.

 These two are the Westport Terminal "modern" cabooses:

 

and these are the two transfer cabeese:

 

It was a Red Caboose flat car and the MOLOCO kit from Walthers.

And this is my Track Cleaning Transfer Caboose:

There's a video and more pictures about this TCTC at my  Track Cleaning Transfer Caboose site.

Other cabooses I own are factory painted, mostly from Walthers. 

Wolfgang 

[nbrodar]

We have a history thread, a name train tread, and numerous locomotive fleet threads.  I think it's time for a caboose fleet thread.  

Delaware and Hudson Fleet:

Back Row: Factory painted Atlas Wide Vision.
Front Row (L to R): Factory painted later red Athearn bay window, Bev Bel orginal yellow bay window, Bev Bel later red bay window w/ D&H sesquicentennial herald.

Reading Fleet:

Back Row: Custom painted Atlas Wide Vision
Front Row: Factory painted P2K Northeastern

Pennsylvania Fleet:

Factory painted Bowser N5c: left, 1950s Shadow Key; right, 1960s Focal Orange

Please share yours. 

Nick