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Caboose Tribute Party

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Posted by sakel on Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:23 PM

I have a FRED on a caboose. Am I confused?

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:03 PM

FRED basically replaced the caboose but who says FRED can't be on a caboose...  Cowboy

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:26 PM

I have a caboose on every freight train.

Santa Fe had those classic Holy Cross Logos, on the wonderful red cupola cars.

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Posted by superbe on Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:01 PM

This CGW caboose by Centralia Shops arrived this week at the end of a through freight but when the local shortline saw it they switched it out with one of their clunkers. Let CGW come get it.

Bob

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:01 AM

DT&I GP40 #422, pushes a heavy Grand Trunk westbound freight, out of town.

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:14 PM

The C&O caboose is seen in the less common blue paint.

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Posted by GP39 on Sunday, August 12, 2012 10:22 PM

A Burlington Northern caboose passes through Olyville.

Burlington Route SW7 looks on.... Smile

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Posted by GP39 on Monday, September 24, 2012 6:31 AM

Illinois Central Gulf 199806

Tags: Caboose

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, September 24, 2012 12:39 PM

Sodor Line Caboose.

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Whistling

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Posted by E-L man tom on Monday, September 24, 2012 1:01 PM

Here's my first attempt at scratchbuilding/kitbashing (sctatchbashing). The carbody sides and ends are commercial castings. Only they and the trucks and couplers are commercially made. The rest is scratchbuilt.

This is only my second attempt at posting pictures on this forum; not quite sure yet how to transfer from Photobucket to my post.

Tom Modeling the free-lanced Toledo Erie Central switching layout.
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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:38 AM

Let's have some fun..

Great Northern manifest freight blows by the camera, circa 1970...

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:41 AM

This upgraded site, requires a few posts  to tell the story...

Back in the '50's and '60's, Trains and Model Railroader often had cool pans.

Panshots are somewhat neglected today..

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:42 AM

The 40' boxcars were wonderful...

As was the caboose...

Nothing like some good panshots. 

Celebrating the day with fantastic food, and a few brews Cool

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone Chef

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Posted by mountaingoatgreg on Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:18 PM

Here an SP&S train rolls south along the Deschutes river, bringing up the rear is the SP&S 861. A you can see the guy in the river must have a fish on as he is paying no attention to the passing train.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Be Wise Beware Be Safe

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Posted by cjcrescent on Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:46 PM

I model primarily the SRR, but my wife like the GM&O. I also have a shortline called the Alabama Central, that is a haven for equipment that neither of the other two RR's mentioned had.

First is a F&C SRR caboose.

Here is my wifes GM&O caboose. Its brass from Samhongsa

Here's an old Quality Craft Models Erie caboose, painted into ACRR colors.

I have 4 more completed F&C cabooses with 3 more to build. I have also done several easy kit bashing the Athearn bay window into a reasonable facsimile of the SRR bay windows.

I really like the "squirrel cages" the SRR put on the vast majority of their cabooses. They're real fun to solder together.Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by superbe on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:13 PM

Here's the Spring Mills latest B&O Wagon Top Caboose... She's a beauty

 

 

 

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Posted by kbkchooch on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:28 PM

A pack of cabooses, some plastic, some wood, some brass! Big Smile

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Posted by tstage on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:16 PM

Unfinished but my newest transaction: A NYC Wood sheath caboose

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:24 AM

Hi Tom,

It looks like you have a nice winter project to paint and letter your new Ajin caboose! Here's a few shots of a Custom Brass caboose I painted a few years back.

Speaking of caboose projects, here's a few pictures of the 1:1 scratchbuilt caboose I told you about on your visit. You'll have to come back and see it sometime!

She's all decked out for the 4th of July here. Almost looks like the Ferdinand Magellan from FDR's era.

Here's an interior shot.

Have fun with your new caboose! Are you going to use decals or dry transfers to letter it?

Take care, Ed

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:23 PM

Pictured is another Spring Mills Depot B & O Wagon Top.

Last August I reserved one and then in November a second one. They are real beauties but I hope I don't have any more ordered.

I had been having trouble with the 90 degree crossing and when I took a picture from the track approaching from the left it was so out of alignment I was ashamed to show it. Some how I've got it so there are no derailments. I had been blaming the crossing.

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Posted by THayman on Monday, March 18, 2013 10:53 AM

It's often perceived that cabeese (or vans, as we often call them up north) have no place on a modern layout. While it might be true that there are fewer of them needed, they can most certainly play a role. There are still some kicking around for long or tricky reverse moves. As a modeller of modern-day CN operations, I figured it would be appropriate to have a model of one of CN's distinctive Pointe Saint Charles vans, albeit in a more modern and "worn out" sort of appearance.

This van has seen much better days, and has not been well treated in recent years. If it's just a platform, why keep it looking pretty?

Warning: this may be a painful sight for some caboose lovers!

I built this van from a Sylvan resin kit, then painted and weathered it and built a simple interior. The model is meant to represent a van being used as a shoving platform, with its doors welded shut and several of its windows broken or boarded up. I may eventually add some graffiti if I find any I really like, and I also need to get some more modern roller-bearing trucks and add supports for the smokejacks.

I do have one other van in my roster, which is a brass model of the other distinctive CN steel van, the ones built by Hawker Siddeley. It will be getting painted for the Devco (Cape Breton Development Corporation) mining railway, and although it will be weathered slightly, it won't look nearly as rough as the one above!

-Tim

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