Whats' Your Favorite And/ Or Unusual Caboose?

I happen to like the Philadelphia & Reading woodside caboose. My next favorite caboose is extended vision caboose because it has the cupola.

Lee Fritz

N5C for the portholes

NX23 work cabin

and the plain old humble N4 Bobber

Simon

A couple of of my favorites...

As a Pennsy fan like all PRR cabin cars.

Born, raised, and matured in the second largest steel producing town at the time served by five class 1 roads including the B&O sure do like the wagon top bay window.  If I recall correctly this maybe the earliest bay window dating back to the early 1930's.

But this is most probably my favorite.  A Malcolm handcrafted masterpiece.  A N&W CF cabin car.

A prototypically correct companion for my A and TE-1.

One of many....scratchbuilt

and another....a restoration and completion exercise

and this pair...

the right one is a restoration job and the left one is a scratchbuilt copy

Rusty Traque posted:

Dave Ripp. posted:

Any CB&Q or Burlington Northern but I really like this one.

That's not a caboose, it's a dynamometer car, full of instrumentation used for measuring locomotive performance.  When in use, it goes in behind the locomotives and before the train.

Rusty

Thanks, I still like it.  And I like Burlington Northern and CB&Q Cabooses & or Way Cars the best.

N5CJonny posted:

Of course it is no surprise, but I like N5C cabeese.

This was my favorite too, until the great smoke generator melt down.  It got repurposed into this crane tender.

Bruce

mwb posted:

One of many....scratchbuilt

and another....a restoration and completion exercise

and this pair...

the right one is a restoration job and the left one is a scratchbuilt copy

Oooh!  I like those! 

brwebster posted:

This was my favorite too, until the great smoke generator melt down.  It got repurposed into this crane tender.

Bruce

 

Now that's a spotlight caboose!

I think I have my #2 now anyhow. How about a better shot of that roof sometime?

Hope this will do for now.  The work lights are Lemax LED yard lights.  In fact, this ongoing project is due for electrical hook up next.  The plan is to add command control to power the lights and couplers using an old TMCC upgrade kit for dummy engines.

Bruce

Kind of hard to pin down but for the most part CB&Q Way Cars

I'm trying to hold myself back till after halloween.    But your pic is giving me a strong urge to start Christmas layout #1! 

Nice Q cabs. The Q owned the C&S, of which I have a sidedoor, and ran an interesting menagerie of wild and varied cabeese, models of more of which I would like to have. 

colorado hirailer posted:

Nice Q cabs. The Q owned the C&S, of which I have a sidedoor, and ran an interesting menagerie of wild and varied cabeese, models of more of which I would like to have. 

Thanks.  I have a K Line Woodside that I was planning to reconfigure to a CB&Q NE-7. Since I managed to acquire my 3rd Rail NE-7 Wednesday. It will now become a C&S 3 window woodside.

a pair of B&M Buggies . The first one is a reworked UP Ca car from MTH which I used to make a B&M style of caboose before MTH released its ready  to run version. The second car is a scratch built Laconia style buggy as it ran on the B&M in the steam years. These cars were later rebuilt with steel sides and lasted to the end of cabeese.