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Originally Posted by jim sutter:

MTH has made the following Reading northeastern style cabooses in red.

1. 20-91175

2. 20-91218

3. 30-77237

I just looked up those MTH cabooses and only the third one(MTH # 30-77237)is listed as being in stock.

I have a few other Reading cabooses, a Lionel Monopoly game caboose, an MTH woodside P & R caboose, a K-Line smoking caboose with green paint in Reading Lines.

 

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Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

About Eastman's posting of the Marx "3/16" northeastern caboose.  There must have

been a zillion of those made, and of the only other roadname they put on them, the

New York Central.  Other than the Marx, I have not SEEN a model of a northeastern

caboose lettered for the NYC...did the NYC roster any NE cabooses?

I don't believe so. I've never seen a photo of one. Maybe PC but not NYC.

Originally Posted by Hudson J1e:
Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

About Eastman's posting of the Marx "3/16" northeastern caboose.  There must have

been a zillion of those made, and of the only other roadname they put on them, the

New York Central.  Other than the Marx, I have not SEEN a model of a northeastern

caboose lettered for the NYC...did the NYC roster any NE cabooses?

I don't believe so. I've never seen a photo of one. Maybe PC but not NYC.

PC's "NE" style cabooses all came from the Lehigh Valley RR.  I believe 8 in total.  While they are similar to the Reading, CNJ and other eastern roads cabooses, LV's are unique due to the style of the rain gutter above the window.

 

MTH, Lionel and Weaver have all made this model.  My personal preference is the Weaver version as it really captures the prototype quite nicely mainly in the placement of the trucks. Lionel and MTH have the trucks too far inboard on the frame for short radii. 

 

I have an MTH one I heavily modified and converted to two rail, the rivets are bit big for my taste.  Still a decent model with some work though.

Weaver never made a NE Cab in NYC? Can't prove that they have without research,

but I find that hard to believe - they've put out that NE Cab in everything - L&N and GM&O,

for example. (They didn't have any, and neither did the Central, I believe. The NE Cab was generic enough to stand in for all sorts of "near-misses".)

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GG1 4877 - I have both the MTH NE Cab (they did it in GM&O) and the Weaver - the rivets

are smaller on the Weaver, but you probably know that.

 

Does this mean that you don't have a model of the GG1 "Old Rivets"? (Don't remember

the road number - it wasn't a Hudson, after all.)

Did someone say "Rivets"?   It helped being the primary design consultant for the project.  I have two! 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a two Weaver "NE" style cabooses in Conrail, but unfortunately one took a slight spill off a modular layout onto concrete.  It was the old style in all plastic.  Still trying to figure out how to put it back together.  I think between the two of them I have a whole caboose.  Sometime I'll get it painted for CNJ too.

 

Originally Posted by Randy_B:

Lionel made this one in 2007, model number 6-17682:

 

 

6-17682_4261

 

Nicholas Smith and America's Best both show one in inventory and there is one currently on Ebay. Hope that helps.

I have one of those (Lionel #6-17682), and I like it very much.  It rides behind coal drags, pulled by my Lionel Reading T-1.  But if you get one, I recommend leaving the smoke unit off.  I had a derailment, once, with the smoke unit on, and I only caught it in time as it shorted and the floor beneath the smoker was starting to melt.  No visible damage done, but since then I never use the smoke feature.  In fact, I intend to remove it altogether, and replace the oversized working stack with a scale one.

 

Other than that, it's a great model with excellent detail, much better than it appears in the catalog photo.  Mine has factory working marker lights.

 

 

 

I took a trip back to Bloomsburg, Pa on May 02, for a family gathering (my dad was born there).  I also wanted to go and see the sights I haven't seen since I was a little tyke.  South on Rt. 42 between Bloomsburg and Catawissa, is a rock formation when viewed from the road, appears to be a profile of a Native American Indian.  The other photo was taken just down the road that was serendipitous.  This is what sparked my search for a four window northeastern caboose.

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