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Some of my cabooses
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Modeling CNR in the 50's
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)
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
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.
I see your NP's and raise you another D&H
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.
A hazy day, and a passing Norfolk and Western caboose.
To be the caboose for my Rail Baron Consist but haven't' decided if/how it will be detailed...
Let's go with a CB&Q.......waycar.
Burlington Route wide visions ran well into the Burlington Northern era.
Finally, had some free time, to take a few pictures.
Here is a cool favorite.
Rio Grande - The Action Road
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
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 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!
Let's go with some classic Milwaukee Road action
Where's your favorite?
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.
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.
Stourbridge Lion
Can I ask why someone would keep posting the same photo over and over?
Back to the fun.........
Otis eyeballs a rarely seem MKT caboose at Olyville.
A walther's caboose I did a while ago. I need to go back and paint the grabs.
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..
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.
Let's checkout another Canadian one............
Enjoying your caboose shots!
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.
Bob