How many cabooses are on your roster

[Eriediamond]

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

[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 !

[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.

[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!

[Anonymous]

3 all bay window and all athrean.

[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.

[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

[lupo]

12 UP, 1 Ely-Thomas

[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!

[lyctus]

I'm intrigued by the spread of road names listed by respondents. I understood that a caboose would stay basically on its home road, generally behind a home road loco. Is this not the case ?
As I build my freight car fleet, I acquire a caboose for about each 20 cars, currently I have 4 PRR cabooses. Should I be introducing neighbouring RR caboose into my roster ?

[Anonymous]

My layout is pretty small so I can only support 5 right now.

I have 2 bay window, 1 wide vision, 1 NE steel type and 1 wood NKP. My favorites are wood types and bobbers. Unfortunately there aren't any bobbers in S scale and I haven't had time to scratchbuild any. Once the layout gets closer to finished I plan on building one each of the 4 different ones used on the Ma&Pa.

Roger

[CBQ_Guy]

Geez, I never thought about that one before. Well, since I model the CB&Q in the late 1960's, the vast majority are Burlington. Let's see, I have...

--
Burlington:

2 - 3 window "wood" (Walthers)

7 - 4 window "wood" (2 are brass - 1 Mineral Red and 1 Chinese Red; the rest are plastic (Walthers): 2 Mineral Red, 2 - Chinese Red, I Undec.

1 or 2 each "wood" or "steel" in plastic made by MDC and Athearn, silver

1 - MDC "old timer" plastic "wood" caboose in Mineral Red

1 - 3 window plastic "wood" (MDC) "Hannibal & St. Joseph (CB&Q)"

1 - Bachmann/Model Power(?) plastic "steel" NE-12, silver

1- brass NE-12, silver

3 or 4 Atlas RTR "metal" Wide Vision, silver

1 - Athearn plastic "metal" Wide Vision, silver

1 - Athearn plastic "metal" Bay Window, silver

3 - Laserkit real wood cabooses to be built and painted Mineral Red


Non-Burlington:

1 - Bachmann(?) UP bobber caboose, "wood"

1- TP&W plastic "metal" orange/white paint

1 - Rock Island plastic "wood" (MDC "Old Timer"(?)

1 - CNW plastic "steel" Athearn(?) "Employee Owned"

2 - Transfer caboose kits -- (Walthers and Moloco)

...and I think that's it from memory.

So that makes a total of something like approximately 30. Holy snikeys!!! [:O]

[IRONROOSTER]

I have one kit. I like wood sided with cupola and haven't seen too many of those in S. But I'll scratch build if I have to - after I get the track down.
Enjoy
Paul

[PistolPete]

9 total, 3 MOW or track cleaners
1 bay Window
3 standard
2 wide virson
my favorite is an Athern BN wide version, great colors, silver roof, yellow ends, green sides with white markers. This caboose is why I started modeling BN, CAboose first loco's and cars second.[swg]
GO PATRIOTS

[Dough]

The one saving grace for the caboose is locals. I have seen several here in Georgia on CSX. They head up the tracks with engine on front, and then they back down with caboose taking up the lead and the engine pushing. In fact they just replaced the CSX caboose here in Athens with another one. I spent today trying to get some shots of it.[;)]

[CP5415]

I only have 6 at the present moment.
I have 4 Athearn wide vision 1each --> CP, Seaboard, Conrail, Undecorated
1 Athearn standard undecorated
1 Roco standard CP
1 Crown standard CP
I'm working on getting at least 1 each of D&H & MEC

Gordon

[ClinchValleySD40]

Sixty. Favorite is Atlas Standard.

[Anonymous]

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.

[mls1621]

I have eight.

Three Micro Trains wood sheated, four Atlas steel side and one Model Power steel side that I converted to MOW.

They all have standard cupolas and my favorites are the wood sheated.

[orsonroy]

8 AMB NKP 1000-series wood center cupola
3 Athearn NKP 400-series bay window
2 Roundhouse NKP 700-series steel center cupola (kitbash)
1 Rundhouse NKP 101-series NKP wood center cupola (kitbash)
1 Roundhouse NKP 800-series ex-W&LE wood (kitbash)
1 Walthers NKP 400-series ex-C&O wood
1 Division Point NKP 80-series ex-LE&W wood
2 Overland NKP 1340-series war-emergenct composite
2 custom resin NKP 1385-series wood rider cars

1 Bowser PRR N-5b
2 AHM PRR N-6b (reworked)

2 Des Plaines IC steel side door
2 AMB IC wood side door
1 AMB IC Iowa Division wood
2 F&C IC wood transfer caboose

2 Athearn GM&O "ATSF style" (actually ACF) steel offset cupola
1 resin GM&O wood center cupola (ex-B&O)

1 Mantua C&IM northeastern caboose (stand-in)
1 Des Plaines C&IM steel side door (ex-IC)
1 AMB wood side door (ex-IC)

3 Roundhouse P&E (NYC) wood offset cupola (kitbash)

3 Roundhouse TP&W wood offset cupols (kitbash)

1 AMB P&PU transfer caboose (ex-M&StL bay window)
2 Roundhouse P&PU transfer cabooses (extensive kitbashes)

1 AMB CB&Q waycar
1 AMB Rock Island caboose
1 AMB M&StL wood bay window caboose
1 Bachmann bobber (for no apparent reason!)

This is the first time I've actually cataloged my cabooses. Jeeze! I didn't realize I had 50 of them. I do like cabooses though, and will most likely end up buying a few more (notice that I regularly use Roundhouse wood cabs as kitbash bait. They must be my favorite!)

[Anonymous]

I've always loved cabooses and never run a freight train on my layout without one. I just counted and it turns out that I have about 85 cabooses of all different types in HO right now, plus I also have more in O and S gauge.

[Anonymous]

2 built - 1 wood sided, 1 steel sided. Still have one steel sided to complete. That's only 3, but there are only about a dozen pieces of rolling stock, so cabooses (vans in Canada... makes the plural simpler [;)]) are a significant percentage!

Andrew

[BNSFNUT]

Only 1 caboose on the layout and it is in a park. When you model the modern era cabooses become mighty scarce.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by LightBender

My favourites are bobbers and tiny crummies. This is a blue bobber;

Nice Bobber

Where did you get that one?

I'm very partial to these type. I have about 8 cabooses of various types, 3 of which are Athearn, 1 Roundhouse and a Walthers

[Anonymous]

Four at the moment. I'm planning to add a few more though - mainly in the interests of having matching loco and caboose sets!

My fleet:

Walthers Amtrak Wide-View caboose - only cost me about £8 RTR, have added glazing, extra weight, and a figure stood on one end platform, have also painted the trucks and underframe matt black - they were unpainted plastic - looks a lot better now!

Athearn SE triple pack of C&O/B&O cabeese - 1 yellow and 1 blue bay window, one red wide view - this was the first US HO scale stock I bought - still have to buy at least one matching loco! I added glazing and Kadees, two of them have figures added to the end platforms. I've a tendancy to do this as it adds a little life to the car.

[AltonFan]

I have more cabeese than I need, at least one of each of the steam-era models available in N scale. I would like to build some wooden USRA cabeese (the ancestor of the Northeastern caboose, which I have selected as my "standard" caboose). I have a Rapido bobber, a number of Sante Fe-style cabeese, and a pair of the Atlas wide-vision cabeese. I would like to kitbash a branchline caboose, basically a combine with a coupola, as well as some transfer cabeese.

[Jetrock]

I have two currently on the roster--one is a WP four-window cupola with exterior bracing that I bought at a train show (ready-to-roll), one is a kitbashed Mantua "bobber" caboose (much like LightBender's above) converted to two-truck configuration to better resemble a Sacramento Northern prototype.

I have two three-window cupola cabeese in boxes waiting for assembly and painting and mild conversion to resemble the "Gould Standard" cabooses that Sacramento Northern received in the mid-1940's.

Further down the road is the scratchbuilding and/or kitbashing of two CCT wooden-frame electric freight motors that were converted to caboose service by Central California Traction. That should be an interesting project...definitely one of a kind.

[Anonymous]

My favourites are bobbers and tiny crummies. This is a blue bobber;

and off to the right, a crummy;

[rf16a]

I have 5 cabin cars and 4 cabeese.

Bowser N-5, PRSL, 2.
Bowser N-5c, PRR, 2.
Athearn, PRR, 1.
Atlas RDG, 1.
Athearn, B&O, 1.
old AHM, Soo, 1.
Bachman, "1776", 1.

[Hawks05]

i have 2 that actually look good and then one backmann from my first set that i repainted and i'm trying to see what it will look like with my railroad name and everything on it. one is a Burlington Northern and the other is a Rock Island. sorry haven't gotten down the types yet. one has windows on the side and one has a extended roof.