Lionel's New York Central System cabooses

[Bob Keller]

You can't go wrong with any jade green caboose (there also seems to be a variety in placement of the logo). The 7802 looks about right, though in the color reference, the reds seemed a bit darken (more boxcar brown) than red. As for the red/gray, the book only showed the one style (represented by the MTH no. 7802 body) that was painted for Pacemaker. But don't get too wrapped around the axle about it - literally, anything is possible to have been done.

I've got red/gray, green, yellow (Marx), and red NYC cabooses. The only NYC caboose I ever passed on was a black boom car for a crane (hey, it was supposed to be emergency equipment and I doubt if any railroad would have painted it black).

I think MTH made the crane (black), but I bought a K-Line boom car (green). Or the reverse.

[Deputy]

Hey Bob,
              How about these? Is there a real one in this group or all fantasy jobs?
http://www.trainbarn.com/mth_20-91030.htm

http://www.trainbarn.com/mth_20-91076.htm

http://www.mth-railking.com/detail.asp?item=33-7802

http://www.traindoctor.com/webstore/shopexd.asp?id=1415

I'm having a heck of a time finding the Lionel Bay Window in jade green. If any one of these is correct, please let me know.

Dep

 

    

[Deputy]

Thanks Bob. Drat! I guess I will shell out the big $$ for a Lionel bay window in jade green (6-17633). Good grief...$80 samolies for a caboose

 

Dep

[Bob Keller]

Checking Sweetland's two volumes of color guides to NYC equipment, most NYC cabooses were either tuscan or jade green. There were five 20100-series cabooses (the old-timey, wood-sided caboose with a low coupla that I believe MTH still offers) were re-worked with either aluminum sides, or sheathed sides and were painted in the red and gray for Pacemaker service.

There were also a few jade green done up with a white safety stripe (some with safety slogans, sone with safety slogans and an Aerotrain outline) at about window level.

[Deputy]

I am also in the market for a NYC bay window caboose. I saw the ones mentioned in the first post on E-Bay. I have also seen NYC bay window cabeese painted in the red/grey Pacemaker colors like the boxcars. Anyone know if these are real colors or fantasy?

Here's a pic of it:

http://www.trainbarn.com/mth_30-7712.htm

Dep

[espeefoamer]

NYC had green bay window cabooses,with a small bay window.I don't know how their cupola cabooses were painted.

[wrmcclellan]

This is a good question. I have a lot of photo stuff and some old videos of the NYC and I think the lightening stripe caboose is a bit of (well done) whimsy.

[rlbarnard]

Recently I was on Ebay looking as some of the New York Central cabooses being offered for sale. Two that I noticed were Lionel's #19726 grey lightning bolt wayside caboose and Lionel's # 6-9174 green wayside caboose.

To get to the point, were there any of the NYC lightning bolt cabooses in real life? I can't remember ever seeing any. I can remember seeing a lot of the green ones. I grewup during the '40s and '50s across the street from the NYC tracks which ran between Niagara Falls, Rochester, and Boston.

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