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
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.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
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
Unfinished but my newest transaction: A NYC Wood sheath caboose
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
A pack of cabooses, some plastic, some wood, some brass!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Here's the Spring Mills latest B&O Wagon Top Caboose... She's a beauty
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.
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
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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
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
The 40' boxcars were wonderful...
As was the caboose...
Nothing like some good panshots.
Celebrating the day with fantastic food, and a few brews
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone
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William
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..
Let's have some fun..
Great Northern manifest freight blows by the camera, circa 1970...
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.
Sodor Line Caboose.
"> Brent
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Illinois Central Gulf 199806
A Burlington Northern caboose passes through Olyville.
Burlington Route SW7 looks on....
The C&O caboose is seen in the less common blue paint.
DT&I GP40 #422, pushes a heavy Grand Trunk westbound freight, out of town.
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.
I have a caboose on every freight train.
Santa Fe had those classic Holy Cross Logos, on the wonderful red cupola cars.
FRED basically replaced the caboose but who says FRED can't be on a caboose...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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I have a FRED on a caboose. Am I confused?
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
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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.
Let's checkout another Canadian one............
Enjoying your caboose shots!
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.
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..
A walther's caboose I did a while ago. I need to go back and paint the grabs.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Back to the fun.........
Otis eyeballs a rarely seem MKT caboose at Olyville.
Stourbridge Lion
Can I ask why someone would keep posting the same photo over and over?
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
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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.
Let's go with some classic Milwaukee Road action
Where's your favorite?
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!
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.
Where's yours?
Don't be shy....
Let's Party !!
Here's a head end caboose
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Finally, had some free time, to take a few pictures.
Here is a cool favorite.
Rio Grande - The Action Road
Burlington Route wide visions ran well into the Burlington Northern era.
Let's go with a CB&Q.......waycar.
To be the caboose for my Rail Baron Consist but haven't' decided if/how it will be detailed...
A hazy day, and a passing Norfolk and Western caboose.
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.
I see your NP's and raise you another D&H
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.
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)
Some of my cabooses
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Happy Easter
Soo Line had some colorful ones.
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.
Good greif! What a process!
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!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
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.
Chessie Safety Slogan scheme caboose, was a great find on the end of a train.
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.
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
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.
No doubt some of you will be amazed to see a piece of my rolling stock that is actually painted!
Enjoying the photos! Thanks Everyone.
D&H #35797
Greg,
Great photo, looks to be late1930's-early 50's ???
Here is what currently follows all the trains on the PB
Don,
Benefactor, Instigator, and Constructor
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Jerry
That is a real 35mm photo of Alabama hills, then blown up to a poster size 30 inch long print.
Bruce
D&H #35794
steamage Lone Pine Local
Lone Pine Local
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!Happy 'Green' St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day !
That Southern Pacific shot above, looks like Bad Day At Black Rock.
Here's another vintage SP caboose.
Caboose for a cash-short, yet growing-traffic railroad:
Couple of Conrail's:
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.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Until now, I've never had a Penn Central caboose operating on my layout 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 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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Thanks to all for sharing.
Here is an old favorite...
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.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Here's to the hack!
-Stan
Another classic caboose.
Here's one of mine back when I was in O-Scale...
Atlas HO.
Another D&RGW short caboose, started as Precision Scale kit
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Erie RR caboose built by Magor Car Shop
Same model caboose in the Erie "Buy War Bonds" scheme
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
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.
mactier_hogger Great looking vans Batman! What models are they?
Great looking vans Batman! What models are they?
They're Trueline Trains Cabeese. I quite like them.
This SP, HO caboose was used in the movie Repo Chick a few years ago. The producer couldn't afford a prototype caboose.
Dean
30 years 1:1 Canadian Pacific.....now switching in HO
Here is an NE-6.
Share some more of yours!
OK, here goes:
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
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.
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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What is more classic, then a red caboose?
Southern Railways
Jarrell
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:
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
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.
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
Track Cleaning Transfer Caboose
and more cabeese
another transfer caboose
1969 on the Burlington Route. A vintage SW7 by Athearn and an Athearn caboose. Always preferred the CB&Q over the BN..
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.
Ever just miss the head-end of a passing freight?
The caboose was always there, to make things right
The Cedar Branch & Western has both bay window...
and wide vision cabeese.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Here is a classic SP bay window, by Athearn.
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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Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Ex erie/EL Dunmore Caboose lettered for the Wellsville Addison & Galeton RR
Nice One!
Here is mine
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Why do Illinois Central cabooses, need to be heavily weathered?
That's how they used to look.
Here is one of my custom ones
Here's some B&O action at Olyville
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
At the North Hollywood depot.
Great post goin' on! Here are a coupla mine.
First off, a kitbasheroo using an Athearn wide vision and Moloco cupola.
And another Athearn puppy, altered very minimally.
Here is a couple of IC caboose in N scale on my railroad...
Here is some rail fanning at the Toppenish NP Museum.
And a Weyerhaueser Caboose on the layout.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
farrellaa My unfinished 1:1 scale caboose in what is now my train room. -Bob
My unfinished 1:1 scale caboose in what is now my train room.
-Bob
I have the luxury of a finished family room, heat, AC, carpet, even a big TV and stereo, but when I see something as totally cool as this, sometimes I wish I had a dingy basement so I could do a great man-cave thing like this. Are you going to have a railing and lanterns, too?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Here's one of My favorites. Great Western Rwy #1007
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....)
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Cabeese ready to roll.
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.
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
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:
Matt
Proudly modelling the Quebec Railway Light & Power Co since 1997.
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Caboose are alive and well on my layout..
GN X408 sitting in Eureka MT, along the old GN mainline before the dam.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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An early morning shot.
Some Santa Fe cabeese:
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
Enjoying the wonderful pics. Some great layout views too.
Here is a classic favorite.
My Rio Grande cabeese are of the earlier, wood variety.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Here is a proper D&RGW steel caboose.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Cabooses are my favorite of all cars:
Have Fun.... Bob.
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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GP39 Good idea for a thread. Great photos from everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
A century's worth of cabeesees
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.
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
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
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:
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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Here's my contribution, the Port Able Railway's caboose/shoving platform:
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Mike Kieran
Port Able Railway
I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.
A slightly modified Athearn caboose:
...and a slightly modified one from Trueline:
one from Sylvan (kit):
Athearn bay window caboose:
Re-built Athearn caboose:
Wayne
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."
N&W caboose at Slate Creek yard.
A Chessie caboose.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
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?
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
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:
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
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!
George V.
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.
Gordon
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
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
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!!!!
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.
Gil, known as Bill somedays ...
Where ever you go, there you are !
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!!!
One of my favorites - a wooden caboose - the CV used them into the 1970s.
GIl, known as Bill somedays ...
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!
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!!!
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!
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!!!
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.