Love those Cabooses, lets see one of your Favorites

My Favorite with interior and sleeping conductor. I have a photo of the prototypical sleeping conductor.

here are some pictures of my cabooses...................rogerw.

KD You certainly did a great job on that Santa Fe model.

Malcolm,  what can we say?  Whew - great job!

Darn Roger,  you've got the BEST of the best here!

Great thread!

Here is my caboose track. That green one is a long way from home

Cesar

This is a Penn Central N9 transfer caboose that I built. I used a Lionel PS-1 boxcar for the floor and chassis.  Scratchbuilt the cabin from Plastruct sheet stock.  Handrails are made from brass wire.  I spent about three weeks on it.

I asked about cabooses still in use on prototypes recently and found more than I hoped.  The tinplate manufacturers don't get far from the most common Class 1

caboose shells they can letter for a variety of roads, or the poor Pennsy and Santa

Fe shells that get myriads of foreign names of roads silkscreened on their defenseless bodies, so the only one of recent manufacture I have is an MTH side door severely kitbashed.  I threw up a lot of photos on a thread a couple of months ago? but all were kit-built, kit-bashed or scratchbuilt except for a few old brass Hallmark side doors on three rail trucks.  Two cabooses I have not yet built and want are the FEC/Great Western side door and the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine RR long combine caboose. No kits or built-up versions of those out there in boxes of any color,

or brass that I have heard of.... I do like cabooses.

Three views from the Caboose Convention held at Dallas, PA Penn Station, back in the late 1980's.

B&OBill

c. sam, thanks for looking at my cabooses. if my club members found out that i posted my caboose pictures, they would probably give me a fine!!! the reason is that i don't run any cabooses on my layout or the club's layout. i have end-of-train devices on some of my freight cars. i told the club members that the end-of-train devices is my modern day cabooses!!!........................rogerw.

I also love caboose's here are some of mine from the fleet!!

Here are my favorites:

Top row: Weaver brass, Weaver brass, Overland 2-rail brass

Bottom row: Lionel, K-Line, MTH

And here's a bigger one. The Descanso, Alpine & Pacific is a 2-foot narrow gauge railroad in a very large back yard east of San Diego. There's a fair amount of info on it online, just Google it. 

Boy I see lots of us love those cabooses and really have some nice ones. 

Below is posted my favorite work caboose as I have not seen others posted.  I really like the crane cars too.   They are in their familiar spot, a siding just the right length along side my scratch built round house.

The red engine is the Lionel 627 GE 44 ton switcher.

Keep them cabooses coming.

Charlie

One of my favorites from K Line.

While a version of my favorite caboose has not been made yet, I think the Lionel, UP CA-3 and CA-4 are among the best examples of road specific cabooses out there.

Pictured in front is the stock CA-3 with the additional added (Lionel) detail on top of the cupola. In the rear is the slightly modified CA-4. I had marker lights (Tomar) added and changed out the stock smoke stack for the scale smoke stack.

Charlie

My favorites are the Lionel PRR ones.  Here's a picture of a few.  

And a picture of two of the tougher ones (top shelf, center and left).

Here's my little oddball...a prewar N5 with a metal body, rivet detail and a smokejack. Someone fitted it with a postwar truck on one end, so it can serve as a transition car. It looks good behind my K-Line PRR A5.

Pennsy Class N8 I Rebuilt from a vintage Max Gray Import.

Bob