Well I guess its me who's starting off this fine Tuesday, which is OK as I have some new cabooses. I was at a train show last Saturday and found two really nice, near O scale cabooses for a very low price. They both have illumination and the PRR caboose even has smoke. Since they were from some of my favorite RR's I just had to buy them. So here they are:
This is the Lionel Southern #17601 Standard O, wood side caboose from 1988. This will look great behind my new (1979) Southern U36b although its likely of an earlier era. It is 8 1/2" long (or 36 scale ft).
I really liked the added hand rails on top of the cupola and the ladder detail
The end platforms contain the brake wheel and the chain guard for added realism
Finally the cupola view shows the curved as opposed to peaked roof and the end platform detail.
Here is the Lionel Pennsylvania RR #19807, also from 1988. It is an "extended vision" type caboose and is also in the Standard O line (closer to scale). It is 9 1/2 " long or 40 scale feet so, some 4 scale feet longer than the SRR caboose above. Its also obviously a steel sided car of a much later era than the SRR caboose above. This car has lights and smoke from the chimney! The price was $2 so I could hardly resist.
I really liked the end platform detail, in this case the brake wheel connecting chain is even shown as well as ladder detail.
Both of these cars have automatic couplers on both ends so should work well in my simple trains. Well that is it for me this Tuesday, hope we can gather up some more input later on today. Best wishes for a good and healthy week to all.
Don
