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
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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!
-------- ( It's a worm)
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?
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