Are you a caboose collector ?...

[tstage]

No - because for New York Central there really isn't much out there to collect: Walthers, Trix, Roundhouse.  (I think Atlas Trainman just came out with one recently.)  There's always brass, but...I'm not ready and willing to cough up $150+ just for a caboose.  Boy, if you are into Pennsy, your caboose choices are endless.

I do have a Waterlevel Models NYC caboose kit that I still need to research and put together.  I may try and kitbash/scratch-build one at some point, too.

Tom 

[Teditor]

I have about 55-60 in N scale, mostly UP and SP but other related roads as well and some private home roads as well, I have always had a fascination for them, even though I have never seen a real one.

Australia has 'Brake Vans' with vastly different designs.

Budget constraints have slowed me down, but I still wish to obtain more, I make sure there a no duplicate numbers, make my own decals and renumber if necesary.

Teditor. 

[Anonymous]

Yes, I could be considered one.............so what......it's MY railroad!!!!

[Anonymous]

Not really. I have around 5 or 6, but only 1 is in service at the moment, although operations are slow seeing as I only have 2 freight locos in service at the moment! one's normally in the yard, the other one does the only train im running right now; the Pittsfield Turn. Normal operations will resume when I get a walkaround throttle. I have the Digitrax Zephyr and 1 jumperthrottle, but the jumper is a pain becouse I have to walk around the layout to the yard where the Zephyr is to switch engines.

Sorry if I got off topic, I just meant to say I also have one ready to go into service, and another one that needs minor repairs, but I can get on the road if I need it.

The rest of my cabeese are ainciant ones with built in truck mounted horn hook coupelers that will probobly never see use.

 

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Tyler

 

Springfield Central Railroad

Route of Pittsfield Pass

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[wjstix]

Well I would have said "yes" before I read some of these posts!! I guess at 8 cabooses I'm just a casual drinker compared to some of you out-of-control caboozers !! 

I have two I decorated for my freelance St.Paul Route (including one with removeable roof and added full interior) and two Great Northerns, plus one each from DM&IR, BN (bay window), Rock Island (outside braced) and Soo Line. I'll probably in the future add cabooses from C&NW, MN&S and CN/DW&P, maybe a BN extended vision caboose, and a wood one from New York Central...hey, I need something to run with that BLI Hudson!!

[GAPPLEG]

Not really , I only have three , all painted by me for the SP. This picture only shows two. I have one in a box that will be painted for my fictional short line , also bay window.

[nbrodar]

Yup.  I love cabooses.  I have about 20 of them.  All modern(ish) steel ones.

Nick

[beegle55]

I pretty much hate cabooses, I own two that seldom see time on the mainline.

 -beegle55

[SSW9389]

Between my son and I we have 57. Is that a lot? Weare selling off a half dozen to thin the herd.

[on30francisco]

I am sort of but the cabooses I have must be plausable for my railroad (more or less) and they must run flawlessly. I guess I'm not a collector because the main purpose of my trains is to enjoy seeing them run as opposed to displaying them inertly on a shelf. I like building unusual (aren't they all) logging and other odd narrow gauge cabeese. I also have a passion for other types of cabeese although I don't collect or run them.

[jecorbett]

I have a large caboose fleet but don't consider myself a collector. To me a collector is someone who buys equipment to display on a shelf. My caboose fleet is in use on the layout. I have a large railroad and model a period when each crew typically was assigned to a caboose. This means more cabooses than the number of trains being run in a typical session. My main yard has separate caboose tracks for east and westbound trains. Each of these holds about 6 cabooses.

[Texas Zepher]

Amazingly enough, No.  I've always wanted to be a caboose collector, but it is one area that for some reason or another I've not pursued.   I would guess I have relatively the fewest cabooses in my "caboose collection" than any other thing I collect.

[Anonymous]

I was for a while...collected about 20 of them but I stopped now...I am concentrating on modern stuff now...but I still have Cabooses that's sitting in original box awaiting me to give them Micro-Trains.  Another sad facet of the hobby.

[WCfan]

I'm sort of a Caboose collector. I have Five (soon to be 6) and 2 (soon to be 3) are in regular service on my 3% grade. Those two are some werid looking cabooses, one has a hand railing on to of it!

[Anonymous]

I had a heck of a time until the Walthers PRR Platium came out. I got one of those, I probably will get more.

Im gunning for a brass Bay Window Wagontop in the B&O and I suppose that will make me a collector.. but wait! Collectors keep trains in boxes, I run mine.

Caboose stuff in HO scale is unsatisfactory, I managed to buy several Proto ones and strip them to install my own decals. Everything is either modern era or UP.

[Dave-the-Train]

I don't collect cabs as such but my era is end-of-caboose operation so I want a caboose with a different number for the tail of each train except an intermodal and a unit coal train that will have FREDs... so the difficulty of getting different caboose numbers in anything but UP or ATSF drives me NUTS

[tomikawaTT]

Actually, I own very few full brake vans (aka cabeese.)  Most of mine are box-brakes, with a few other types that have brakeman's compartments on otherwise standard freight cars (notably the hopper-brakes of the TTT.)

Looking forward to the day when I'm in full operation, I'm actually a few short!

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[pcarrell]

Would it be fair to say I'm a collector of cabeese if I have more of them then I do loco's?

[GN-Rick]

Absolutely. I have around 25 Great Northern cabooses. Many different types, 16 of which are brass, 4 are wooden kits, a pair which are kitbashed Atlas cars, and one that I scratchbuilt-a 25-foot wooden caboose.

[lvanhen]

I have about 33, almost all UP, does that make me a collector?

[UNIONPACIFIC4018]

yes I am a caboose junkie, I have about 15-20 and they all are other railraods that were taken over by UP.

[Tracklayer]

I was out in the train room earlier this evening rearranging a few things when I realized I had more cabooses than I thought... In fact I've got a caboose for each road and each era beginning with the 1920s, 40s, 60s and 80s. From wood to steel to bay window...

Anyone else out there a caboose collector ?.

Tracklayer