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Jeff78rr posted:

What are your opinions on the EOT devices to use? I don't care for MTH trucks, so don't use theirs. Are there any others out there? Thanks 

Since I model in the steam era, early thru mid 1950s, my "end of train device" is referred to as a "waycar" on CB&Q trains, and a "caboose" on other trains.

Enginemen I knew had some other "pet" names for cabooses, some for the particular personalities occupying them …. hack, crummy, cab, squirrel cage, and pressure chamber (in reference to building enough train line air pressure as shown on the caboose gauge to make the air test) are some that come to mind.  Others are not fit for print here……..

Hartman posted:
GP 40 posted:
Hot Water posted:
Jeff78rr posted:

What are your opinions on the EOT devices to use? I don't care for MTH trucks, so don't use theirs. Are there any others out there? Thanks 

Since I model in the steam era, early thru mid 1950s, my "end of train device" is referred to as a "waycar" on CB&Q trains, and a "caboose" on other trains.

Enginemen I knew had some other "pet" names for cabooses, some for the particular personalities occupying them …. hack, crummy, cab, squirrel cage, and pressure chamber (in reference to building enough train line air pressure as shown on the caboose gauge to make the air test) are some that come to mind.  Others are not fit for print here……..

....and the PRR's "Cabin Car".  I still prefer to call it a caboose.

Can someone tell me when EOT devices came into use in what decade?

On Chessie System they started to appear about 1983 or so, however; some other roads, notably FEC (non union) had been using them a while before then.

Dennis

 

Hi Jeff,

Yeah the MTH EOT is oversized.  Been working on trying to get Ring Engineering to offer their EOT's in O scale.  None the less, a couple years ago one of the conversions I did was to modify the MTH EOT slightly for 2R use.  I installed the modified MTH EOT on an Atlas TM boxcar at that time using the MTH electronics connected (inside the boxcar) using a modified Atlas truck with the wipers from an Atlas caboose truck.  Since then I have installed a SoundTraxx Soundcar decoder and speaker as well for click-clack sounds and power the EOT. 

Check out the video and photo

 

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