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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:07 PM

What a "Crummy" idea for a thread. Well here is the three I own. Please excuse my far from finished layout.

And a lonely prototype wondering why he was left behind at Brookmere B.C.

 

 I love Cabooses. I hope we get lots of pic's.

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:14 PM

Hey, this might be pretty cool!

I took an Undec MILW Rib Side & assigned it to ICE/DME (as early Loco power came to DME from MILW & SOO), so it is not too out of line!

Although not striped & decaled yet.. (this may be the inspiration needed to finish it!)

 Later, look forward to more!!!

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Posted by IVRW on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:15 PM

Here is a typical "bobber", but boy, does it look toy-like. I have special plans for it, though.

 

Here is the other Caboose that I have, a Kadee Logging caboose.

 

But this is by far, my favorite shot of a caboose to date.

 

Enjoy!

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:06 PM

Hey John,

Say, I have one of those, & it is one of my first attempts at an interior, & figures, went well too! 

Love those Logging Bobbers!!!

 

 

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Posted by GP39 on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:46 PM

Thanks for the responses!

I have to add one of my personal favorites.... a pan shot.

Hope to see a ton of caboose shots.

Cheers!

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Posted by Gil Janus on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:58 AM

One of my favorites - a wooden caboose - the CV used them into the 1970s.

 

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:18 AM

Gill.

Please forgive my locality, but I seem to remenber hearing the call of "Central Vermont!"

Let me know if I am on track or totally derailed!

Looks like a nice unit, well maintained too!  Nice work!

Seriously when I travel, I see the big 4 (not includig shorts):  BNSF, UP, CSX, NS, on a very few occasian I may see KCS, CP, CN, & all the above shared partners ..

Wish they still had some beease, to both identify with, & enjoy!!! 

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Posted by Gil Janus on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:17 AM

The New England Central Railroad has one ex-CV caboose, #4044, still in almost daily use on the "chip" train that runs from Swanton down to Burlington because of the reverse moves thru Essex Junction.

See http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=185565

and http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=104391

and these 4 photos of  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=261017

Not everyone who likes the CV lives in Vermont, so don't feel bad. The NS uses them on the coal runs in and out of the mines - but that's not near you either.

 

My under-construction Brooklyn based shortline will not be using one - a 4-block long waterfront shortline doesn't really need one - but I might add one to use as an office - the real waterfront lines in Brooklyn used them that way.

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:33 AM

Hey Gill,

I didn't mean that like a stichk, I really like the model, & wish I had one!  Again excellent work! 

(Honestly, I'm sheltered to Locals & Shortlines outside my area, please allow my apologies, & hungriness to learn more, in an over excited [panting black lab type] fasion!)

For me, other than my town park train, -I freelanced a bit here, but it is a pretty much stock DM&iR boosie (didn't see that coming!!) Yes, I get WI & MN Public TV on good nights, & their "Iron Town" series, & Milwaukee series are just incredible & inspiring!!!! Awesoeme things happened in those days, when America really was forward!!!

Well here is one in the respect of MN Missabe!

Although I didn't see this one in the vintage films, I felt the spirit!!!!  

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Posted by Odie on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:40 AM
Don't fret...around my area, NS still has a few old Conrail caboose sitting in the local yards for use on some local trains and various yard activities. I have a few pics here of the local crew shifting the Hershey Chocolate plant with a caboose in tow recently.
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Posted by ChadLRyan on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:17 AM

Cool man, enjoy them while you/we can!!!! 

I miss them, but I miss trains in general, the MILW was torn out in 1986 round here 9in IA & MN, but where I worked in suburburban Chitown, they called the Metra run the 'Old Milwaukee Line'  (which was west through Elgin, where I was) & not connecting to Milwaulkee, WI   -but, the IL to IA grain lines!   Which ICE/DME ran/does run -as CP now..  However, I never saw their corporate caboose, yes they do have one!!      -Later

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Posted by CP5415 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:55 AM

Cabooses haven't gone away from my railroad. I keep buying them when I see one I want. New/used, wood or steel, doesn't matter.

This one, I know isn't prototypical for CP, but it was my Dad's from the 60's & it was in the house while I was growing up. It's a Crown body that fits right onto a Athearn BB chassis.

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Posted by georgev on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:57 AM

Here's a couple of shots of my railroad cabii...cabeese... caboosesese.  This first one is an old P2K undec model that got the paint/lettering treatment.

Sorry this shot is a bit our of focus.  These two are the Walthers wood caboose model, the ones where you get to drill a bazillion holes for the grab irons, that were stripped of the yellow C&O paint scheme.  Walthers had a twofer fire sale some years back that was too good to resist.  Since the roof of these models is removable I decided to paint the roofs black and use a brighter red similar to a couple of P2K caboose I have, factory painted in a Western Maryland scheme like this that looks pretty good.  The all tuscan color in the first caboose is because it was painted during a period of expense reduction for the railroad..  that's my story and I am sticking to it!      

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:32 AM

Here's my Kadee logging caboose on a bridge:

And this one leaving the Butte Creek station.  I built it from one of those etched brass kits that you solder together.  It was intended to be HOn3, and standard gauge trucks wouldn't fit, so I made it a 4-wheel bobber:

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Posted by IVRW on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:42 AM

Phil, that bobber looks really nice. Where did you get the kit? Also, your layout looks spectacular, any chance of us seeing a lot more photos from it in the next Friday-Sunday time period?

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Posted by BRAKIE on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:55 AM

N&W caboose at Slate Creek yard.

A Chessie caboose.

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Posted by leighant on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:11 AM

Shown previous but...

I had a close-to-prototype (I thought) Santa Fe-based East Texas layout with a semi-freelance shortline logging connection based on elements of the Moscow, Camden and St. Augustine, the Texas South-Eastern, and Kirby Lumber Co. trams.

The Kadee/MicroTrains wood caboose with inward-slanting cupola was not a Sant Fe prototype- it was SP.  But theTexas South-Eastern had an ex-SP wood caboose.  So my Kadee/MTL caboose went to the shortline, named Johnston and East Texas for the fictitious town of Johnston, named for my modeling friend, the late Ron Johnston.  The reporting marks "JET" was a joke since the logging line was the slowest thing around.

On this line, possibly run in a less-formal manner than the big trunklines, the conductor "hired" his dog as his assistant.

Show me..... oh wait, that's another thread.  I guess this thread is all "show me a caboose."

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:20 AM

A slightly modified Athearn caboose:

...and a slightly modified one from Trueline:

one from Sylvan (kit):

Athearn bay window caboose:

Re-built Athearn caboose:

 

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:04 PM

Here's my contribution, the Port Able Railway's caboose/shoving platform:

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Posted by Railphotog on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:55 PM

My most recently acquired caboose, a model by Rapido Trains of a local shortline that operates former CPR cabeese.   All I did was add a bit of weathering to the chassis, trucks and ends so they would show up better.  Comes with interior details and lighting, and operating marker lights:

 

 

 

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:18 PM

MEC 556 is an old Roundhouse truss rod caboose similar to the prototype. It's painted in the MEC pre-1955 color scheme - boxcar red sides and cabose red ends

MEC 646 is one of a series of cabooses MEC converted from old boxcars in the 1960s; I kitbashed it from an Athearn blue box boxcar and wide vision caboose

I have a number of others, but have not photographed them - maybe I should Smile

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:42 PM

L&A Railway officials using the lines 'green' motive power to propel their inspection car. #2 runs on grass, ferns and water.

 

Now that we've had a chuckle it's time to get back to the thread.

60's era Athearn caboose body on a Bachmann frame with Athearn metal sprung trucks.

 

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Posted by mononguy63 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:45 PM

A century's worth of cabeesees

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:17 PM

GP39  Good idea for a thread. Great photos from everybody.

 

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Posted by gmcrail on Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:33 PM

I mentioned in the "Favorite Freight Car" thread that I liked cabeese;  Here are 5 of the active ones on the FHN  (which is about 4 more than I need, but what the heck....)

All except the bay window are MDC cars - the BW is from Athearn.

 

 

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Posted by Bob grech on Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:51 PM

Cabooses are my favorite of all cars: 

Have Fun.... Bob.

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Posted by Bob grech on Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:52 PM

Cabooses are my favorite of all cars: 

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Posted by farrellaa on Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:58 PM

My unfinished 1:1 scale caboose in what is now my train room.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:06 PM

Here is a proper D&RGW steel caboose.

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Posted by twhite on Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:44 PM

My Rio Grande cabeese are of the earlier, wood variety.

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:44 PM

Enjoying the wonderful pics. Some great layout views too.

Here is a classic favorite.


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Posted by Southwest Chief on Friday, September 16, 2011 12:27 AM

Some Santa Fe cabeese:

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Friday, September 16, 2011 8:04 AM

An early morning shot.

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Posted by Geared Steam on Saturday, September 17, 2011 9:14 PM

GN X408 sitting in Eureka MT, along the old GN mainline before the dam.

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, September 17, 2011 9:58 PM

Caboose are alive and well on my layout..

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Posted by Sailormatlac on Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:52 AM

Cabooses are mandatory on our layout.

True line and modified Roundhouse cabooses in the background.

 

The caboose track (modified Roundhouse, Walthers (now retired) and True Line).

Modern True Line:

Protofreelanced Roundhouse:

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, September 18, 2011 1:20 PM

Similar to the one Running Bear posted but with some modifications following an article MR in the 60s.  I moved the cupola and replaced the cast on grab irons wire.

Right now it's in need of some work.

 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, September 19, 2011 7:18 AM

Cabeese ready to roll.

 

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:40 PM

It's 1925 on the SLOW so we have to have a lot of cabeese (Cabooses, Crumies, Cabins, Caboosys, or whatever else you want to call them....)

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Posted by Great Western Rwy fan on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:28 PM

Here's one of My favorites. Great Western Rwy #1007

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Posted by wm3798 on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:07 PM

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:49 PM

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:17 AM

farrellaa

My unfinished 1:1 scale caboose in what is now my train room.

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Posted by gear-jammer on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:51 AM

Here is some rail fanning at the Toppenish NP Museum.

And a Weyerhaueser Caboose on the layout.

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Posted by Cox 47 on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9:25 AM

Here is a couple of IC caboose in N scale on my railroad...

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Posted by tankertoad70 on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:18 PM

Great post goin' on!Smile  Here are a coupla mine.

First off, a kitbasheroo using an Athearn wide vision and Moloco cupola.

And another Athearn puppy, altered very minimally.Cowboy


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Posted by steamage on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:48 PM

At the North Hollywood depot. 

 

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:12 PM

Here's some B&O action at Olyville Beer

 A GP30 on a caboose hop.... heading eastbound, to the yard.

Pretty busy with my ATVR site, not much time for taking pictures....

Really enjoying the many caboose shots...Thanks for sharing  Beer 

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:54 AM

Why do Illinois Central cabooses, need to be heavily weathered?

That's how they used to look.

Here is one of my custom ones Beer

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:46 PM

Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.

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Posted by GP39 on Monday, September 26, 2011 4:34 AM

Nice One!

Here is mine

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Posted by pike-62 on Monday, September 26, 2011 8:11 AM

Ex erie/EL Dunmore Caboose lettered for the Wellsville Addison & Galeton RR

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, September 26, 2011 10:16 AM

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Posted by mlehman on Monday, September 26, 2011 2:01 PM

This is a picture of Durango yard, with caboose 0505 waiting for Rio Grande 70-tonner 99 to tack it on on the end of a group of empties headed back to the coal mine at Hesperus.

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, October 1, 2011 5:52 PM

Here is a classic SP bay window, by Athearn.

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Posted by dragenrider on Saturday, October 1, 2011 9:33 PM

The Cedar Branch & Western has both bay window...

 

and wide vision cabeese.

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Posted by GP39 on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 4:40 PM

Ever just miss the head-end of a passing freight?

The caboose was always there, to make things right Cool

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, November 3, 2011 8:31 AM

Other times, that roll of 36 shots on a 35mm would run out, just when your train was approaching for the close-up, but if one was quick, the caboose could still get shot.

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Posted by GP39 on Friday, November 25, 2011 5:35 AM

1969 on the Burlington Route. A vintage SW7 by Athearn and an Athearn caboose. Always preferred the CB&Q over the BN..

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, November 25, 2011 5:47 AM

Track Cleaning Transfer Caboose

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and more cabeese

another transfer caboose

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Posted by GP39 on Friday, December 9, 2011 7:34 PM

Here is an old custom paint Athearn caboose. Champ decals on the bay window caboose.

The General Electric U33B is a stock Athearn locomotive.

Let's see more of your cabooses Smile

 

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:29 PM

Directly related to New York Central.

Indiana Harbor Belt #68.

These were used in transfer service.

This is the 1970's era for IHB.

Back then, the blanked out cupola and windows were unusual.

The switchers and cabooses, looked very close to New York Central at the time.

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Posted by tbdanny on Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:46 PM

Here's a D&RGW narrow-gauge 'short' caboose:

And here are three I saw parked at Fullerton train station when I was over in the USA in September:


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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:27 PM

Southern Railways

 

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Posted by GP39 on Sunday, December 25, 2011 5:19 AM

What is more classic, then a red caboose?

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Posted by dti406 on Sunday, January 1, 2012 8:59 AM

Here is one my favorites!

This is a Custom Brass 700 Series Caboose, originally built by the Wheeling & Lake Erie and repainted in the High Speed Service Scheme.

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:22 PM

OK, here goes: 

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Posted by GP39 on Sunday, January 8, 2012 12:55 PM

Here is an NE-6. Cool

Share some more of yours!

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Posted by mactier_hogger on Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:56 PM

Great looking vans Batman! What models are they?

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Posted by steamage on Monday, January 9, 2012 8:27 AM

This SP, HO caboose was used in the movie Repo Chick a few years ago.  The producer couldn't afford a prototype caboose.

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:27 PM

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Great looking vans Batman! What models are they?

They're Trueline Trains Cabeese. I quite like them.

 

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:05 PM

My pictures are my scree saver and a few moments ago I saw a caboose flash by on the monitor.

I searched and found the following. It is a B&O

 The tree must have been the subject.

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, January 13, 2012 11:47 AM
been a while since I posted anything on here as far as pics. Been too busy to get them downloaded to photobucket. Here are some almost finished cabooses in my fleet. the two bay windows and the other will be in use for my logging operaion.

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, January 13, 2012 11:48 AM
been a while since I posted anything on here as far as pics. Been too busy to get them downloaded to photobucket. Here are some almost finished cabooses in my fleet. the two bay windows and the other will be in use for my logging operaion.

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Posted by pike-62 on Friday, January 13, 2012 12:09 PM

Erie RR caboose built by Magor Car Shop

Same model caboose in the Erie "Buy War Bonds" scheme

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Posted by wedudler on Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:48 AM

Another D&RGW short caboose, started as Precision Scale kit

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:11 PM

Atlas HO.

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Posted by Pennsy nut on Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:42 PM

Here's one of mine back when I was in O-Scale...

 

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Friday, February 3, 2012 7:04 AM

I model MKT & CB&Q in Missouri. A MUST SEE LINK: Great photographs from glassplate negatives of St Louis 1914-1917!!!! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm Boeing Employee RR Club-St Louis http://www.berrc-stl.com/
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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:17 AM

Another classic caboose.

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Posted by B&O1952 on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:44 PM

Here's to the hack!

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Posted by dstarr on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:23 PM

I  have done some recent caboose building.  I suffered from a shortage of working cabeese and a surplus of un built kits in the kit locker. 

This was a Walther's  R-T-R factory painted for the C&O.  Although R-T-R, the wire grab irons were furnished loose, for the owner to apply.  I jazzed it up with hand made cupola roof grabs, and a crew member inside the cupola keeping watch for hot boxes.  All the windows are glazed.  A rattle can of red auto primer did the body of the car, and I brush painted the grabs with Floquil Railbox yellow.  It looks a lot like a number of B&M cabeese of with I have photo's, but it is not an exact match for any of them.

This is a Roundhouse kit in factory paint.  It's fairly authentic, I have color photographs of  this caboose with this road number.  I added grabs on the cupola roof, but other wise it's pretty much stock.

 

 

This is another Roundhouse kit in factory paint.  Shows the McGuinnis blue bird scheme that came in in the late 1950's.  It's reasonably authentic, I have photographs of sister cabeese in this paint scheme.

This began life as a Roundhouse model of an IC  side door caboose.  I repainted and decaled for the B&M.  Far as I can tell, this is a fantasy caboose,   It  has some of the flavor of  the wood milk car conversions the B&M ran back in the WWII years, but it doesn't have end platforms and doesn't have the right number of windows.  But I like it, and it will see some action on my B&M layout.

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 10:30 PM

Thanks to all for sharing.

Here is an old favorite...

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Sunday, March 11, 2012 2:52 PM

Until now, I've never had a Penn Central caboose operating on my layout  Embarrassed  A few months ago, I bought (on ebay) a Roundhouse Kit-Penn Central caboose.  The description was "unassembled".  The seller failed to mention that is was also "partially assembled".  When I received it, the hack job was less than desirable.  The body had glue fingerprints on it, the roof walk was crooked and the cupola didn't sit flush.  On a positive note, the frame hadn't been touched.

A few weeks ago, my parents picked up some Penn Central rolling stock (5 for $20) at a train show.  One of them was a Life Like Penn Central caboose.  The body was in decent shape. Since it is an older model, it had horn hook couplers.  I had planned on installing a draft box for a knuckle coupler.

Both sat in boxes until this weekend.  As I was tinkering, I thought  Idea  combine the two......With a little modification to the Life Like body, I was able to fit it onto the Roundhouse frame and install the rest of the parts.  I also added Kadee #5 couplers and 33" Intermountain metal wheels.

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Posted by rdgk1se3019 on Sunday, March 11, 2012 2:57 PM

This is a caboose for my work train.......it started out as an undec.MDC kit I found a year or three ago at a train show in Timonium MD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by maxman on Sunday, March 11, 2012 3:30 PM

Couple of Conrail's:

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Posted by markpierce on Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:18 PM

Caboose for a cash-short, yet growing-traffic railroad:

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Posted by steamage on Monday, March 12, 2012 4:29 PM

Lone Pine Local

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:15 PM

That Southern Pacific shot above, looks like Bad Day At Black Rock.

Here's another vintage SP caboose. Cool

 

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:57 PM

Happy St. Patrick's Day !

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, March 17, 2012 5:02 PM

Here's one I have, I don't have my AMB BN transfer caboose done yet.
Seeing all of these is pretty enjoyable, nice work everyone!
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Posted by BIG JERR on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:03 AM

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http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/steamage/lone_pine_local1.jpg

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:36 AM

D&H #35794

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Posted by steamage on Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:42 AM

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That is a real 35mm photo of Alabama hills, then blown up to a poster size 30 inch long print. 

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Posted by jlineopr on Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:52 PM

Greg, 

Great photo, looks to be late1930's-early 50's ???

Here is what currently follows all the trains on the PB

 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, March 23, 2012 9:45 AM

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Posted by GP39 on Friday, March 23, 2012 8:16 PM

Enjoying the photos! Thanks Everyone.

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Posted by hon30critter on Friday, March 23, 2012 11:48 PM

Here is my first attempt at a Juneco wood/metal kit. I made a few goofs when filing the steps, and I need to learn to do a better job painting the handrails (the paint on the handrails is a bit lumpy when you look at it up close). This was a swap meet purchase. It must have been pretty old because the dry transfer lettering didn't stick very well (and I managed to get one side crooked). I am still deciding on how to treat the windows. The interior will not be detailed.

 

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Posted by UncBob on Monday, March 26, 2012 1:13 PM

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Posted by UncBob on Monday, March 26, 2012 1:24 PM

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Posted by FreightTrainBlues on Monday, March 26, 2012 5:47 PM

Nice, those Erie cabooses! Didn't know about the War Bonds- scheme. If I ever finish my DL&W wood caboose kits, I'll buy this Erie kit - I  think Erie Lackawanna Historical Society has them.


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Posted by GP39 on Monday, April 2, 2012 4:43 AM

Chessie Safety Slogan scheme caboose, was a great find on the end of a train.

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Posted by NP2626 on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:11 PM

How are you guys posting photos here?  What do you feel is the easiest merthod?  If I understood the process, I would post some photos of my N.P. Cabooses.

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Posted by hon30critter on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:22 PM

NP2626

Here is a link to a post I did that explains in detail how to post pictures:

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/181001/1981556.aspx#1981556

I am sorry if is a bit long winded but it was designed to help real computer dinosaurs, like me!

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Posted by NP2626 on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:49 PM

Good greif!  What a process! 

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Posted by GP39 on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:36 PM

Quick instructions

Shoot the picture

Downland from your camera, and save on your computer

Edit if you wish, and save that picture

Upload to Photobucket and copy the direct link.

Open the reply post here

Paste the link in the image box in your reply.

Hope this helps.

 

 

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Posted by GP39 on Sunday, April 8, 2012 9:18 AM

Happy Easter Smile

Soo Line had some colorful ones.

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:05 PM

Some of my cabooses

 

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Posted by NP2626 on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:21 PM

Here is my Northern Pacific 24 foot wood caboose built from an American Model Builders wood kit.  These kits build into first class models and are a lot of fun to build!  (Guess I should have dusted the rood off) 

 

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Posted by NP2626 on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:24 PM

Here is another N.P. 24 footer, this time built from a Gloor Craft wood kit I snagged on Ebay.  Again, a very nice kit that was a bunch of fun to build.

 

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Posted by NP2626 on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:41 PM

The last caboose here is from the Northern Pacific 1000/1050 series of steel cabooses built to replace the the wood 24 footers.  It's my understanding that train crews did not like these cabooses as well as the wood cabooses as they were much colder in the winter. 

This caboose was kit bashed from an Athearn cupola caboose kit.  All rivets were sanded off.  Some of the windows were filled in; or filled in and new ones made in the correct locations.  The cupola was widened out to the car sides and made taller, filler parts were added under the eves of the vestibules and new end railings and ladders made.   The equipment on the underside was changed around some, to more closely resemble how N.P. had the equipment laid out.    

At some future point I plan to build one of these cabooses; or, maybe the 1051/1100 series, which had the same width cupolas but they the cupolas weren't as tall.  When I do this, I'm thinking about posting a kit bash build of the process, here on Model Railroader's Forum.

 

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:57 PM

A hazy day, and a passing Norfolk and Western caboose.

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To be the caboose for my

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Posted by GP39 on Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:11 PM

Let's go with a CB&Q.......waycar.

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:09 AM

Burlington Route wide visions ran well into the Burlington Northern era.

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Posted by GP39 on Friday, May 11, 2012 8:56 PM

Finally, had some free time, to take a few pictures.

Here is a  cool favorite. Cool

Rio Grande - The Action Road

 

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Posted by mononguy63 on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:57 PM

Here's a head end caboose

 

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:00 AM

The above Monon, reminds me of an early Rock Island transfer caboose. A wooden composite boxcar. They added side ladders, and a bench seat on the roof! Lucius Beebe era equipment.

Here is another Chessie System Safety Slogan.

Enjoying all the caboose shots.

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Let's Party !! 

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Posted by GP39 on Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:19 PM

Here is one that I did, many years ago.

The GM&O ran through town, and had a small station. In 1972, they still had an outhouse!

 

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:16 PM

Let's go with some classic Milwaukee Road action Cool

Where's your favorite?

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Posted by Packer on Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:34 PM

Here's an Atlas EV caboose that I modified and weathered a bit:

I have a few more BN cabooses (or is it cabeese?) that I can get pictures for, including an oddball when I finish it.

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Posted by NP2626 on Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:11 PM

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Can I ask why someone would keep posting the same photo over and over? 

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Posted by GP39 on Saturday, June 9, 2012 5:29 PM

Back to the fun.........

Otis eyeballs a rarely seem MKT caboose at Olyville.

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Posted by Packer on Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:39 PM

A walther's caboose I did a while ago. I need to go back and paint the grabs.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:59 AM

 So this is an Atlas HO Montana RailLink [MRL] Cabose. It has had the body window frames Silver painted, the plastic glass inserts Black Bordered, & added Kaydee Scale Couplers, Airhoses, & DetailWest Coupler Cut Bars. It will now need to be weathered to look like it has the road use of the ICE/former I&MRL Kato GP35 that is leading it to the weathering track..

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Posted by caboose63 on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:16 PM

My Ho scale Leelanau County Railway has 9 cabooses. my favorite are my 2 athearn ATSF cupola cabooses and walthers ATSF 1300 series wood caboose.

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Posted by GP39 on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:36 PM

Let's checkout another Canadian one............

Enjoying your caboose shots!  Cool

 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:53 AM

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Posted by pastorbob on Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:29 AM

No photos of waycars by themselves, but have a total of 31 Santa Fe waycars, mostly Centralia Shops with some PRB brass and some Overland brass thrown in.  Even though my layout is set in 1989, I run them on the rear of most freight trains, especially unit trains as there are too many places on the helixes and such where "I could" lose part of a train, so the rule is, all freights on the roads have to have a waycar.  Good story.

I like cabooses/waycars, have been on many real ones, just doesn't seem right to not have a caboose.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!!

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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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