What were some of the better looking cabooses of all time

[railfan619]

HI everyone I was kinda of thinking what were some of better looking cabooses that. you have seen out on the. Rails in past 10 or 20 years. I was thinking like some Soo line cabooses or CNW cabooses or any other types if you got pictures please pass them on this away [:)][[:)]

[Anonymous]

I like the PRR N-5's. The ugliest had to be the Penn Central transfer caboose.

[TheS.P.caboose]

I liked the BN cabooses with the green sides and yellow ends.

[BigJim]

N&W CF, CG, CH and the cadillac of them all, the C31P.

[coborn35]

The DMIR bay window caboose, C-205!!! One of a kind.

[Modelcar]

....Liked the Pennsy's with the round windows....Wonder if Raymond Lowie {sp?}, may have designed their exterior shape.....They looked like he might have.

[DrummingTrainfan]

Anything with a coupla. Those bay-wondows are just plain ugly!

[jimrice4449]

Oh goody! I get to be the first one to name the obvious winner, the CB&Q semi-streamlined cupola cabeese w/ the silver paint and F unit style trim

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

Anything with a coupla. Those bay-wondows are just plain ugly!

You have obviously never been in one. Ask old crew members which they prefer riding in............
The bay window looks better.

[ValleyX]

NKP Bay Window, High Speed Service

[oltmannd]

PRR N5C and N8!! They both are nicely proportioned, symetrical and have that neat quasi-streamlined cupola.

The ugliest are those ex-NH cabeese that had their cupola windows blanked and bay windows installed.

[dknelson]

The short B&O bay windows with the vertical ribs.
The very short DM&IR wooden hacks with high cupolas
Dave Nelson

[DrummingTrainfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

Anything with a coupla. Those bay-wondows are just plain ugly!

You have obviously never been in one. Ask old crew members which they prefer riding in............
The bay window looks better.

I'm sure the crew would rather look out the side than climb up into the coupla, I'd probably rather look out the bay windows than have to be up in the coupla, but unless I misread something this is about the LOOKS of the caboose.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

For a road caboose, I'd vote for the EL/ex-Erie short cabooses with the offset cupola. For a transfer caboose, the BRC cabooses in red.

[tpd0418]

I vote for the M-5 cabooses of the Atlantic Coast Line - orange with black lettering. There were used after the merger with the Seaboard Air Line as well.

[fuzzybroken]

I liked those B&O "wagon-top" cabooses as well, but I'm also a big fan of the Milwaukee Road horizontal-rib BW cabooses. CN/WC has a FRVR caboose by way of C&NW and CGW (!) that is painted up beautifully, it's a center-cupola design. The old C&NW bay-windows with the flag on the side were always very classy, too bad many of the survivors are in poor shape. [:(] WSOR's X-103 (x-GTW transfer caboose) in yellow is also very classy, but my favorite recent-era caboose was SOO 119, which had a smiley face painted in the center "O"! Sadly, CP sold it last year, prior to that it was a fixture around Milwaukee.

-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

Anything with a coupla. Those bay-wondows are just plain ugly!

You have obviously never been in one. Ask old crew members which they prefer riding in............
The bay window looks better.

I'm sure the crew would rather look out the side than climb up into the coupla, I'd probably rather look out the bay windows than have to be up in the coupla, but unless I misread something this is about the LOOKS of the caboose.

Dont get me wrong,I love the cupola too, I just like the bay better.

[robscaboose]

[:D] Mine .........a 1970 Centralia built wide vision caboose that is my backyard.

It has a big porch that has a nice 1950's style chair & a place to hold my beer. I can have a cold one & watch the world go by.

Rob

[Junctionfan]

I see plenty of nice cabooses at times..........wait, we're talking about trains.[:D]

I am partial to CN's modern cupola as well as Santa Fe's

[Anonymous]

I've never seen a caboose I didn't like. [:D][:D][:D]

[Bob-Fryml]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jimrice4449

Oh goody! I get to be the first one to name the obvious winner, the CB&Q semi-streamlined cupola cabeese w/ the silver paint and F unit style trim

Lemme second that remark. One of my childhood friends had such a caboose on his HO layout, and I swear that seeing it on the tail end of a fast moving freight train in his basement started my lifelong admiration for the Crash, Bounce & Quiver. Union Pacific must have liked the paint scheme too because the railroad painted a number of its cabooses silver with red lettering, and they were assigned to the North Platte - Grand Island - Galesburg run-through pool.

But in second place the Union Pacific CA-3 through CA-10 series cupola steel cabs were pretty nice. Their smooth riding suspension systems and cushioned drawbars earned them the nickname, "Cadillac Crummies." The CA-5s (UP 25200-series) had nice wood paneling inside, they rode quietly, and generally were warm in the winter. Many of the CA-8s (UP 25500-series) did not have axle generators, so the electric lights inside and markers often didn't work.

The UP 24000-series were inherited in 1980 from the Rock Island estate. Bay window cabooses all, the few that Union Pacific did refurbish were the best riding units in the fleet. Very smooth, very quiet. UP 24567 survives to this day and usually accompanies the Northern and the Challenger during their annual break-in runs.

The last cabooses the MoPac acquired, the so called "Cheesebox on a Raft" design were the absolute worst. They rode rough, were g-dd-mn noisy, the chairs weren't at all comfortable; but because they had the smallest volume of air to heat in the winter, they were nicely warm. Shortly after the 1982 merger, many of the U.P.'s better cabooses drifted southwards and were hoarded there like precious treasure. It must to have been a revelation to those MoPac trainman that there were railroad managements in this country that were willing to buy their employees something better than barebones equipment.

[Anonymous]

I thought the best looking cabs were Santa Fe in the 60s 70s. Like the paint scheme and the off set cupola. They rode pretty good also. Also liked UP CA13 for a modern cab. The old CA 9 and 10 were the best I ever rode though. Smoother than a heavy weight passenger car at sevnty miles and hour on a falcon!

[DPD1]

I always liked MP's cabs. I especially liked the transfer style one they used. I never had to ride in them, so I'm going by looks.

Dave
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[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

My favorite cabooses of all time would include the silver, wide vision cabooses of the Burlington Route, the yellow wide vision cabooses of CP Rail, and the blue and yellow wide vision cabooses of the Alaska Railroad.

There were a few roads which never referred to their cabooses as "cabooses". The Burlington Route always referred to them as "waycars", while the Canadian Pacific Railway always used the term "van".