A caboose to bring up the rear of a Friday night:
Georgia_RR-2844 by Edmund, on Flickr
That's a caboose on a shoestring budget!
NdeM_NG_904-c by Edmund, on Flickr
Hola amigos, suban a bordo!Something shifted and I'm at the top of the page?SPAM and waffles all around! Dig in!Spam_Yum by Edmund, on FlickrCheers, Ed
Track fiddlerYou weren't messing with my friend Charlie, were you?
Nope.
gmpullman Hola amigos, suban a bordo!Cheers, Ed
Hola amigos, suban a bordo!Cheers, Ed
That's Ju-Ju's Enchilada...
Way up North by Canada, but in this case, just the wrong border eh?
TF
More Cabeese please
Oh Dave, why did you bother?? “It” isn’t worth the time of day!!
Hi Bear,
I bothered because I thought it was the right thing to do. These forums are very civil and polite and they should be kept that way. Note that the moderators have deleted the offending post as well as my response to it. Apparently they agreed.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Morning,
Just passing through, but I had to stop and comment...
My thanks to whoever got "SFCouple" added to the RIP section. Wayne was cremated earlier this week, and his ashes spread on the ocean just west of the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm still absorbing his passing, and miss his educated comments on people, places, and things.
I see this month's topic is regarding the long gone "caboose", a favorite piece of rolling stock for sure! Decades ago, Andy Sperandeo did an MR article on detailing the Athearn BB caboose kit - which was patterned after the ATSF waycar.
That article was really inspiring, and I picked up an additional 7 of the kits off Ebay, and built them up "assembly line" style. I added KDs, Intermountain wheelsets, marker lights, decals, and applied Dull Coat after painting the railings and roofwalks. I didn't weather the car bodies, but did weather the trucks and couplers.
I guess they turned out pretty good, cause years later when I eventually placed them on Ebay, they sold quite well.
Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Mobilman44 - Bill
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Track fiddler I'd appreciate you standing forward from here on out, if you would please.
What does this mean?
mobilman44 Wayne was cremated earlier this week, and his ashes spread on the ocean just west of the Golden Gate Bridge Mobilman44 - Bill
Wayne was cremated earlier this week, and his ashes spread on the ocean just west of the Golden Gate Bridge
Well this certainly is some saddening news Bill. It's hard to be here sometimes. One of my greatly admired freinds through the years here, one day is gone.
Wayne was a freind to me, one of my most respected modeling mentors. He shared so much of his fine skilled craftmanship with all of us, on and off the sidelines of the Forum. A favorite of mine, he taught me how to make removable bridges. Although the bridge he traveled, will never be removed.
A beautiful soft spoken man of heart and sole HE IS. He will be greatly missed.
My heart goes out to his Family and Friends. WE LOVE YOU WAYNE
John
Today's cabooses:
Detroit Toledo Shore Line caboose 120 by Edmund, on Flickr
— and a two-footer:
Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes 558 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Good afternoon all. A coffee on the go please, Brunhilda.
Not a good day for Dawn today, so playing nurse.
Loving the pictures. Thanks for posting.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
A suuny warm day here, should hit 55.
TF, thanks for the support. I would love to hop in the car and take a drive your way but my wife couldn't tolerate it. Her anxiety maxs out just going on a drive to visit her mother, about 40 minutes round trip.
Expecting a cloudy day here for the big solar event.
David, hope Dawn is feeling better soon.
Nice photos of cabooses. I remember them well. I was back in Rainy River in the mid-70s and they were still in use there. It was a CN division point then so train crews changed for the next leg on the route to Thunder Bay. CN called them vans, I guess from the large British influence here that was prevelent right to the late '50s. Not that way now.
Have a nice day,
CN Charlie
Good Sunday morning from the unsettled West. I was supposed to go golfing with my son today but we decided we are fair-weather golfers and will go another time.
hon30critter BATMAN Members left in the mid-1700s and went to what is now Canada BATMAN Since as far back as we have been able to trace every generation has done better than the one before. Since the 1700s my sister was the first to go to University and now both my kids are highly educated and off to the races. Hi Brent, Our families have a great deal in common. My ancestors moved from Denmark in the late 1700s and eventually arrived in what is now Barrie, Ontario. They were the second pioneer family to settle in the area. Our home was partially paid for with money that came from the land that they settled on in 1823. Coincidently, I was the first to get a university degree in the family's history. My family's pioneering history was recorded by a member of the family in the 1850s. We have a ton of interesting anecdotes from the period. I could go on for hours. Cheers!! Dave
BATMAN Members left in the mid-1700s and went to what is now Canada
BATMAN Since as far back as we have been able to trace every generation has done better than the one before. Since the 1700s my sister was the first to go to University and now both my kids are highly educated and off to the races.
Hi Brent,
Our families have a great deal in common. My ancestors moved from Denmark in the late 1700s and eventually arrived in what is now Barrie, Ontario. They were the second pioneer family to settle in the area. Our home was partially paid for with money that came from the land that they settled on in 1823. Coincidently, I was the first to get a university degree in the family's history.
My family's pioneering history was recorded by a member of the family in the 1850s. We have a ton of interesting anecdotes from the period. I could go on for hours.
That would have been quite the undertaking our families took Dave. It would be one thing to make the crossing on one of those old sailing ships, but to make the overland travel to where they eventually settled, I can't imagine. No train to hop on back then.
I remember my Mom telling me of her and my Grandmother going to England for a visit in the 1920s from Winnipeg. A train to Quebec and then an ocean liner, it was a long journey.
David, I hope Dawn is feeling better tomorrow. As far as medical tests go, ours are available online. I just had my full annual blood panel done and the wife was all over the results the next day just to make sure she was feeding me right. I can go back and see the X-rays of all my broken bones from over the years and MRIs just as the Doctor can in his office.
Had a bit of an adventure on Thursday night. My wife has some significant Neurological problems and she has a hard time getting her dogs up on the table for grooming, so she wanted to get a power table like she had at her Vet hospital. They are several thousand dollars so she has been looking for a used one.
One came up for sale and it was at a house way up in the mountains NE of Vancouver. A long drive on some sketchy roads not knowing what to expect when we got there and turned the corner to this huge beautiful estate with a guest house that is bigger than our house. The couple turned out to be well-known public figures and we ended up having a great visit with these people we did not even know other than through the media.
The table was about 300 lbs and we got it into the truck and the wife now has her powered grooming/ exam table. Getting it out of the truck was a bit of an exercise in creativity.
The dog and I did 8.66 km in 62 minutes yesterday. Considering the terrain, that was amazing. My wife gave me crap for pushing myself too hard. What a spoiler.
My photo host pages won't populate so you get this. A photo of a ship entering Vancouver harbour in 1917.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMANThat would have been quite the undertaking our families took Dave. It would be one thing to make the crossing on one of those old sailing ships, but to make the overland travel to where they eventually settled
I agree that the travel must have been arduous, but I think it would pale in comparison to what my ancestors (and many others) had to do once they got to their destination.
First, there were no roads for the last 50 miles of their journey from Sharon which is about 15 miles north of Toronto (then called York) to Painswick where they settled. They used the trails made by the aboriginals.
Second, the land they settled on was just straight bush (Carolinian forest). In their first two years, they cleared approximately 150 acres of underbrush and planted crops around the big trees.
At the same time, they built the first corduroy road from Bradford to Painswick, a distance of about 25 miles. They farmed and cleared land for four days a week and built the road on the other three. They also used their team of oxen to hall heavy equipment to Georgian Bay for the army.
They lived in a one room log cabin which, being the only 'civilized' building on the trail between Sharon and Georgian Bay at the time, also served as an inn for travellers, some of whom were quite high ranking.
I could go on for pages about all the things they experienced. We have no idea of what a 'hard day's work' is!
Cabooses in captivity:
Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania. Crest of the Alleghenies:
PRR_N5c_Cresson by Edmund, on Flickr
This one on its way from Burton, Ohio to Middlefield, where the B&O's Lake Branch once traversed:
BnO_C2170_Burton-OH by Edmund, on Flickr
The tractor here is exactly on the B&O right-of-way where it passed through town:
B&O_Caboose2_Mid by Edmund, on Flickr
Thois one is in Fort Wayne, Indiana:
B&O_I-5_C-1916 by Edmund, on Flickr
Peninsula, Ohio:
Caboose_Penninsula-OH-89 by Edmund, on Flickr
hon30critter I could go on for pages about all the things they experienced. We have no idea of what a 'hard day's work' is! Dave
Dave. Write it down. Not here, but write it down. Such things should not be forgotten nor lost in time. Once written hand to the relevant historical society, museum whatever.
I know it could be difficult to do, but the significance of it must not be lost to a fading memory.
Good morning
CNCharlie We have a small racoon in the ceiling of the garage. It is a flat roof so it is in a small space. I will have to knock down the gyproc we put up many years ago when it was still a carport. I suppose it still is a sort of carport as it is open on the side facing the back yard except for a fence. It comes to the back door looking for handouts and sometimes brings a friend. We don't feed it.
We have a small racoon in the ceiling of the garage. It is a flat roof so it is in a small space. I will have to knock down the gyproc we put up many years ago when it was still a carport. I suppose it still is a sort of carport as it is open on the side facing the back yard except for a fence. It comes to the back door looking for handouts and sometimes brings a friend. We don't feed it.
Hi Charlie. Those things can be quite a nuisance sometimes. We had a big one of those critters that started hanging out at our place in Prior Lake. He started making himself a bit too comfortable underneath the roof eve right above the deck.
The doggie door going into the house was right there. Judy was scared to death that thing would make it's way into the house and she'd have World War Two on her hands with our two dogs
Me and my freinds were out of town that weekend and missed all the excitement of the dogs going ballistic She called the on call DNR guy and he came over and took care of it.
Back at you with another one of those handsome Pennsy's Ed.
Just watched the eclipse. We are just outside the path of totality so it got dark but not like night time. It didn't really matter because there was heavy cloud cover.
Did anyone get a good view? We watched a live stream from Cleveland and it was quite impressive.
We're in Southlake, Texas, visiting grandchildren. This was the scene here taken on my daughter's phone about two hours ago.
It was amazingly light until about one minute before totality, and after thirty seconds, it was as if someone turned a dimmer switch down quickly. At totality, it went completely dark. We could see several planets that we believe were Jupiter to the left and Venus to the right. Someone told us Mars was also visible but we didn't see it.
I've got to say that it was one of the most amazing natural things I've seen. It's also so amazing that until totallity, even a small sliver of the sun still put out amazing light.
Taken by by my daughter:
Taken by astronauts on the space station (over southeast Canada):
My daughter is talking about an eclipse that will be in Egypt in 2027, so we as a family are talking about getting there for that. I would love to go, but at some point my age will end these trips.
We will leave for home tomorrow, so by Wednesday I may try to post some more photos.
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
Good Evening,
We had a 60% eclipse here with thin cloud so didn't have much of an impact. We had a total eclipse in Feb 1979 that I remember well.
My sister has done a lot of research on our family. She got to one unconfirmed link to the Mayflower. That is on my maternal Grandfather's side. My Grandmother said that her older sister was washed overboard and then washed back onto the ship on the trip from Norway to the US in the 1870's. My great Grandfather settled in Minnesota where my Grandmother was born. That is the extent of any really interesting stuff.
Evenin' Folks!
Eclipse? My family and I live right in the path of totality! Yep, really looked forward to seeing the whole thing right over at my son's house this afternoon. We all had the proper glasses, bundled up as it was cold here, and ..... Well it did get very dark, but we never got to actually see the moon cover the sun and all the cool stuff going on because. Here in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NYS we had very thick dark clouds all day!!!! Several Thousand people from all over desended on the Finger Lakes and..... just saw darkness followed by a bit it of being able to see things again!
73
Ray
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusHere in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NYS we had very thick dark clouds all day!!!!
We were pretty lucky with the cloud cover here in NE. Ohio. We had rain up until about 10 am then things cleared up quite a bit. I set up my Sony video camera and used a #10 neutral density filter but that wasn't enough so I had to resort to holding the glasses over the lens
I found the interesting thing to witness was just how much light eminates even from the very thin sliver passing through just before 'totality'. Then it was a rapid plunge into darkness. I guess I was expecting more of a gradual dimming.
D1510020012c-WM by Louis E Curtis Jr, on Flickr
Moonlit Caboose by Nathan Firebaugh, on Flickr
Good evening all. Just a quick visit as we have grandchildren staying over.
Dawn is feeling much better and sends her thanks to those who sent thoughts and prayers.
Hi Everyone,
Saw the eclipse yesterday for about 20 seconds. It was phenominal!
Since this month's topic is cabooses or cabeese, here is my early offering (probably only offering).
UP Caboose 25328, Sydney, NE by Jim S, on Flickr
When I saw UP cabooses as a kid it seemed to me that the steps were painted red, but I could be easily mistaken.
Another view.
One more.
That's all I have for the moment.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Had a colonoscopy this morning.
Doctor said that today's full moon far eclipsed what he saw yesterday.
Must have been the Dark Side!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Must have been the Dark Side
Not sure. Doc said he saw no sign of the Chang'e Spacecraft.
maxman Had a colonoscopy this morning. Doctor said that today's full moon far eclipsed what he saw yesterday.
Spock! "Yes, Captain". "Did the probe ever come back out of the black hole?" "Not as yet Captain, should we go in after it?"
Good Morning Diners. Janie, coffee and a cinnamon roll please.
We lucked out with clear skies for the eclipse. I too was surprised at how light it stayed with about 90% blockage of the sun. If anything the light started looking odd, making colors just a bit off.
I see that scale trains is finally going to start making steam locomotives, making use of some of the old MTH stuff they acquired. I'm excited about this. Hopefully they make something I can use and not yet another Big Boy. They are starting off with a N&W J class, so there is hope.
The first real hobby shop I ever experienced had a caboose out front. The owner unlocked the caboose during business hours so anyone could check it out. I liked climbing up in the cupola and imagined myself riding along, keeping an eye on my train. While the hobby shop is long gone, the caboose is still there. No idea if anyone can access it anymore. I doubt it.
Mike
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, Chloe.
Today is recovery day for me -- recovering from the 600 mile drive yesterday. Driving back from visiting daughter and family in Texas, my wife mentioned that maybe we should break the drive into two days next time. I'm game, but she's usually the one who doesn't want to stop. I've suggested flying, but she doesn't want to do that, either.
It means we will continue to make the trip in one day. Thankfully, it's great roads all the way. The worst part of the drive is Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma in general. We have never made the drive without hitting major road construction every trip. I guess if you work on an Oklahoma road construction crew, you have lifelong job security.
The temperatures outside mean the layout now suffers. Most of the day will now be spent on house and yard chores. Today I start cleaning the yard. We still get below freezing on some nights, but the ground has warmed up enough so the grass is growing.
It's time to head outdoors. I hope everyone has great day.
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Water Level RouteThe owner unlocked the caboose during business hours so anyone could check it out. I liked climbing up in the cupola
These days that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.