How many cabooses are on your roster

[orsonroy]

Geoff,

Cabooses usually stayed with their own railroad, so no, you wouldn't normally see cabooses of one road on another's tracks. There are exceptions, but GENERALLY this is true.

I listed cabooses from about ten roads for a couple of reasons. I model a terminal RR yard, where several roads coming to Peoria drop their trains off at a central yard, the terminal RR shuffles them around and assembles new trains, and the roads take their trains away. This is one of the few really legitimate ways you'd see lots of cabooses from different roads in the same place, and is why I model Peoria. I also like cabooses in general, and tend to buy and build cabooses that I really don't have much of a use for!

[lupo]

12 UP, 1 Ely-Thomas

[GerFust]

Probably six on a small scale layout. To increase operating difficulty, I'm going to run them on all freight trains on my shortline road I am building. Don't have the numbers with me (they are currently in storage), but they are:

Chessie (3)
C&O
Rock Island (2?)
B&O
...maybe more?

-Jer

[PwdOpd]

I have 7. They are as follows:
CA-1 U.P. 3255 By Lambert
CA-4 U.P. 25153 " Balboa
CA-4 U.P.25167 " "
CA-7 U.P.25432 " Overland
CA-9 U.P.25613 " "
CA-9 U.P.25634 " "
CA-11U.P.25832 " "
All are on the layout, most in use, but a couple just sit on the caboose track.
pwdopd Moore, Ok.

[Anonymous]

3 all bay window and all athrean.

[Dough]

Geoff,

I agree with the above and I will add that a bunch of us that model modern roads have quite a variety due to mergers. Most recently for me Conrail on both NS and CSX. But you could also have a Chessie in old Seaboard territory or a NW in old Southern territory. Since caboose's aren't manufactured anymore most of the ones in service came from predessors. So unless they repaint you have quite a variety out there!

[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.

Oh yeah. A Santa Fe Athearn widevision caboose.

[lyctus]

Ray and Dough, Thanks for the info. I'll bore you with a little story. Over here we call cabooses Brake Vans and the ticket to join a local Sn3.5ft group modelling (brilliantly) local WAGR narrow gauge was a set of masters for a car or coach which was used to reproduce multiple wagons for all members. Neat idea. So I went to the local Rail Historical yard and photographed and measured a brake van, laboriously made up the RTV moulds from the masters I made, and went along to the group. My welcome was less than complete "there was only ever one of those brake vans made and used" I was told, "so there can really only ever be one on anyone's layout at a time". So I failed the test..my first ever big build was like your average caboose....well at the end of the train ! I never did get to join the group !

[Eriediamond]

Mehlich, I think the plural of caboose is cabooses, like mooses or gooses????? Doggone it, Now I'm confuseded!!!![%-)][D)]

[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][^]

[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.

[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.

[on30francisco]

I have three narrow gauge logging cabooses on my roster.

[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

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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]

Eastern RR has 4 cabooses on its roster

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

[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]

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!!!

[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]

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

[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.

[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.

[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. :-)

[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. :-)