Favorite Caboose, let’s see ‘em

This one was hard to find I love the MA&PA

One of my favorites

Here is an old one...a Marx 6" , short wheelbase NYC caboose from Marx's first years (1935) as a train producer separate from the Gerard Model Works of Erie, Pa

Don

Two of my favorites, an MTH Monongahela #64 and my Right of Way C&O Smoking Caboose #909735. Great models.

Fairly Scarce NS caboose with smoke unit.

@PRRK4s posted:

.My scratch built N5c and wartime emergency NX23. Both 1/29th scale.

That NX23 is great.  Some of these lasted a long time and I always thought one would be neat to have.  Beautiful work.

Thanks, Ron.  That NX23 in large scale was actually a pleasure to build. Trying to figure out different techniques to get what was needed seem to flow easily as well. Here is a page that documents the build. I think its one of my best and cleanest builds ever.  http://www.prrmodels.com/NX23index.html   ......Gary   

One of my best looking homemade painting of a SP style caboose and another great use of my set of Rio Grande decals

More favorites to come!

Charlie

PRRK4s   Gary

Thanks for posting your great model of the  XN23 cabin car.  I was not aware they ever existed. I enjoyed your link to the building of it.  Great job.  I liked your review of the NX23s history as well.

You are a professional modeler.

Charlie

Here are some of my favorite cabeese.

My dad helped take care of this caboose when the Austin Model Train Club owned it. My parents were married on the caboose. My dad took my older sister's picture on it shortly before the club sold it to the City of Coupland, TX for their depot museum.

MKT freight headed south through Austin on the Missouri Pacific.

Southern Pacific freight on Llano Branch at McNeil headed east to Austin.

Rear brakeman waving to us from an eastbound Mopac freight at McNeil, TX.

My Christmas present in 1958 was a Lionel #6557 Smoking Caboose.

Sometime before we knew that these things would be better off left alone, I repainted and  it into the livery of my favorite railroad.

It's still one of my favorite Cabooses!

My favorite caboose.

Another one of my teenage repaints from the 1960's. I pretended my Berkshire was a Mohawk and I had a few 6464-125 Pacemaker Box Cars so I needed to paint this caboose. Didn't quite know what I was doing, but hey.......

I think you did a nice job on the NYC cabooses, Skip!

I have always been a fan of the NE style caboose.

Here are a few of my favorites

Bing

Fandor

Ives

KBN

New Marx - Prototype Side door

Thomas Industries

I really liked this MTH N5c Union Pacific yellow and red caboose, picture from Internet.

Here is my Lionel 9168 N5c Union Pacific caboose shell I had and added a base, trucks and made a homemade pickup for the lights.

So I decided to make a more colorful one.  Here is my Lionel N5c Union Pacific Caboose shell and I made a base and added a homemade pickup for the light.  Then it was a mostly a paint and decal job.  Now that is Colorful and really an eye catcher!  Probably my favorite homemade caboose and I have made 6 of them this year.

Favorite UP caboose to go with my  Homemade UP Vanderbilt coat tender.  I got good use from that small set of UP decals.

Lets keep them favorite cabooses coming.

Charlie

NYC Big 4 caboose, courtesy of caboose builder extraordinaire, Malcolm Byrd, aka Brother_Love.

Some of my favorite American Flyer prewar cabooses

c. 1916-1917 using a boxcar body, no doors, but cupola on the roof.  5.5 inches long

c. 1918, again uses a boxcar body (note lack of vestibules), but now lithographed for a caboose.  This was American Flyer's first 8 wheel caboose and first 6.5 inch long caboose.

c. early 1928, this was American Flyer's first enamel painted caboose and the version below has very detailed handrails, which are extremely difficult to find (I have only heard of or seen less than 10 of these).  This was also American Flyer's first 9.5 inch caboose.

NWL

I want to thank everyone for all the Likes on my first post on this thread, but I have a confession to make the photos I posted are only about the half  Cabin Cars I have that I don't really like cabooses. I wish I had more photos to share but sadly I do not.Everybody have a wonderful and Safe weekend.