How many cabooses are on your roster

[Anonymous]

too many to list.. 16-18 in HO, 6-8 in N 3 in O and 1 G scale bobber. :-)

I like the bay window a lot and the wide vision.

[PennsyHoosier]

Okay, I bought another one today at the train show in Fort Wayne, Indiana. What does that make now...

[Anonymous]

8 or 10 Athearn NKP 400 series bay window cabs
3 Gloorc-raft/Silver streak 1000 series cars (one built)
2 NKP 800 series (ex W&lE) "Ray style kitbashes" one done, one in process from MDC cars
1 NKP 100 series(ex LE&W) from a model power PRR car
5 or 6 Lehigh Valley NE type cars from old life like cars (Much rebuilt)
a few misc Conrail cabs.
and a few more I really can't remember

[Anonymous]

I have every Saftey Caboose that was ever manufactured a couple of csx cabeese and a Seaboard Sytem caboose 14 altogether!

[Anonymous]

49 at present.

[Anonymous]

On3 just 2, D&RGW long, F&CC short.,... planning on building a SP NG caboose/combine this winter.
Lionel 'O' 6, all conventional type
HO [ no layout] 5, coventional and Bay, we bring our HO to other's layouts
Jennifer

[aloco]

11 in all. 4 standard (off-centre cupola) steel cabooses for CN, 4 for CP; one wide vision caboose each for CN and CP; and 1 standard (off-centre cupola) steel caboose for my own road. All are Athearn except for one Bachmann standard caboose shell on an Athearn underframe and one Lima standard caboose shell on an Athearn underframe.

[PennsyHoosier]

12 cabooses of various sorts for the timetable. And then four spares.

[Anonymous]

14, one for every freight train in the timetable, plus a few spares. GER vans are assigned to a condustor and there'll be trouble when the conductor shows up and the wrong van is attached to the freight train. :-)

[Anonymous]

14, plus some spares. One caboose for every freight train in the timetable. All GER vans are assigned to a conductor who in turn is assigned to a train. The correct van MUST be attached to the rear of a freight, or there'll be trouble when the conductor shows up. :-)

[leighant]

IN SERVICE:
5 Santa Fe prototype steel cabooses (5 windows one side, 3 other) in Santa Fe service
1 Kadee (before they changed to MTL) SP prototype wood caboose painted to represent a former SP caboose now in logging shortline service, similar to prototype T&SE. (My logging shortline is the Johnston & East Texas, initials JET. Caboose is detailed with the conductor’s DOG riding on the rear platform.

NOT IN SERVICE:
3 Santa Fe prototype steel cabooses painted in colors other than ATSF and without MTL couplers yet.
1 wood caboose unknown prototype
1 SP bay-window caboose
4 “Aurora made in Mexico” cabooses with poor detail, vaguely Santa Fe prototype, earmarked for use of sections of radial roof for a ca. 1950 emergency “roofed hopper” (open hopper converted to makeshift covered hopper)

WISTLIST
Would like to scratchbuild or kitbash a drover caboose and an ATSF side-door caboose.

[Hawks05]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

My cabooses are retired, at least for now. I've seen a few on the real railroads, but not many. They are still used for the occasional odd job, but certainly not on a regular basis. I might leave a couple in the yard for looks

i've seen a couple SOO Line cabooses up in Newport when i've been there. usually with a string of 5 or so cars being switched. nothing special but cool to see. the last one i saw was beat to all heck. could barely read the SOO on the side of it.

i have 2 cabooses in my collection. an a widebay Rock Island, and a standard Burlington Northern. they don't really go with what i plan to model so i won't be getting to many of them.

[Anonymous]

I am using 6 steel cabooses....1 circus paint scheme, 4 speed lettering, and 1 old Fast Freight. All Western Maryland

[Anonymous]

20,
1 4 wheel bobber (WM)
1 Athearn wide coupola (C&O)
4 P2K Northeastern cabeese (1 C&O, 3 WM)
1 B&O I-1
1 Wood sheathed caboose (NKP)
1 Steel (brass) caboose (NKP)
1 Athearn wide vision (Chessie)
1 Atheran wide coupola (Mt Airy & Western, Club road)
1 Athearn ATSF caboose (WM)
1 Walthers Wide Vision (ATSF)
6 Quality Craft brass Northeastern cabeese, 3 completed, 3 under construction (WM 1 in herald scheme, the rest in "speed letter")
1 Walthers Wide vision, modified to stand in for Maryland Midland #15

With a still growing loco fleet, the crummies will have to wake up and start multiplying!![:D]

[Anonymous]

Even though I'm thinking of painting a few modern rolling stock and locomotives in a modern CB&Q scheme, I'll still use cabeese since mrr'ing is a lot more interesting with 'em!

I currently have 1 on the roster; a Atlas International Standard extended vision in the Q's silver scheme. I hope to get more of these, and maybe look for a plastic or resin kit of them so I can paint up a few of these myself.

Cabeese are a lot better looking than F.R.E.D's!!!

[Noah Hofrichter]

Currently only one, scratchbuilt by me, based exactly on a Wisconsin and southern railroad prototype still used today. Then I plan on buying a few cheap Athearn bay windows and painting them in a fictional scheme for the WSOR.

Noah

[Anonymous]

Current roster is 9 or so - including 3 Chessie examples (Athearn SE set), BN and 2 CSX bay windows, one SF cupola, one BNSF wide-vision, and an Amtrak example - all Athearn apart from the Amtrak, which is a reworked Walthers trainline model - I added extra ballast, painted the underframe and trucks, added glazing, etc. THe CSX ones are the only ones regularly used - CSX freights on the line tend to consist of a couple of hoppers and a caboose, hauled by whatever motive power is available.

[Anonymous]

currently I have only one but I plan to have about 6

[Anonymous]

Eastern RR has 4 cabooses on its roster

[darth9x9]

I have a couple dozen especially the 12 Chessie B&O bay window safety cabooses. But my favorite has to be B&O wagon tops painted Chessie.

[Anonymous]

2 HO Pacific Mountain B&O I5's in two different paint schemes,
oh yeah a couple old Life-Like hulks sitting around. They may be restorable if I ever felt like it.

A Micro-Trains off-center cupola caboose in NYC paint, and an N5 and an N5c in Shadow Keystone paint, with train-phone antenna arrays installed, and a third in pre-circle keystone paint. All are in N-scale and the last three are by Bowser. Good models but the rolling quality is terrible without metal wheels.

Alvie.

[twhite]

OOH! CABEESE! What I always look for on the end of a train I watch until age catches up to me and I realize They Ain't There No More. Okay, I've got about six Rio Grande wooden ones, courtesy of both Roundhouse and Walthers, two Rio Grande black steel ones, courtesy of Athearn and Roundhouse, 3 SP wooden ones--2 from Walthers, one from Laserkit (and is THAT one a honey and fun to put together!). 2 WP from Roundhouse kits, and one each GN and CB&Q from Walthers. Then a Pennsy and a C&O from Bowser (have NO idea how Steam-Era accurate they are, just picked them up because they were cute and I wanted someting behind my Allegheney and my M1-A's and my J-1). Oh, yah, an old SP C-30 from Silver Streak (remember them?) and also from Silver Streak, a wonderful old drover's caboose that I use to haul loggers from camp back to civilisation on my planned CAL-IDA logging spur. I think I've got enough to handle it for the time being. And if not--well, back down to the hobby shop. I LOVE CABEESE!

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

1. A Santa Fe LL NorthEast style caboose. Enhaced with free-standing grab irons and handrails, Walther trucks, metal wheels, and new coupler boxes.

2. A Santa Fe brown Athearn Cupola caboose. Enhanced with metal wheel, new grab irons and hand rails, and KDs.

3. A D&RGW brown wooden cupola caboose from MDC. It has new trucks, Intermountain wheels, and KDs.

Now, I'm looking for an Athearn SP baywindow caboose and a Marklin UP center cupola one.

I found that Athearn baywindow. Its waiting to get its molded on grabs cut off.

[Dayliner]

I model 1975 in N so cabooses are indispensible. I have two: M-T "wood-sided" in Canadian Pacific script lettering (although it doesn't look anything like a CP caboose) and a heavily-rebuilt old Bachmann "steel-sided" repainted in CP Rail yellow. Everything that leaves the yard (that isn't a passenger train) has got one on the end.

I'm looking at getting a couple of the Kaslo Shops resin kits for some more authentic-looking CP vans

[SPFan]

I model espee transition era so all the SP cabeese are C-30-1
(1) Challenger Brass
(3) Walthers plastic kits
(2) AMB laserkits
(5) Silver Streak - Ye Old Huff & Puff kits

Also (2) NP wood coupola cabeese, one wood and one brass

Pete

[on30francisco]

I have three narrow gauge logging cabooses on my roster.

[vsmith]

Got 3 in large scale

a Bachmann bobber shortened down to resemble a Uintah RR caboose.

an LGB Colorado & Southern type bobber.

an Aristo bobber used as a track cleaning car.

and a Bachmann Combine with an Aristo Cupola kitbashed on.

The combine already has an interior, but the others will get complete interiors eventually.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mehrlich

Slightly off topic:
I was wondering about the plural of caboose.
Is it cabooses
cabeese, like geese
caboosi, like cacti
or caboose, like moose?
Just wondering...
Also, I sure do miss seeing them. I'll never get over a train without a caboose.

Cabeese.

[Eriediamond]

An addition to my earlier post, The real reason th railroads got rid of cabooses: If you had a mess (southern for a lot) them and cabooses were like mooses then you would have a herd of them, if they were like gooses, then you would have gaggle of them. Do away with them and the probelm is solved!![:D][^]