Show us your cabooses

I see lots of Marx cabooses here.  Always wondered why Marx just put two roadnames

on their 3/16 Northeastern caboose, and one of those had no matching tenders, the

Reading, my first childhood caboose.  (The NYC one did follow a lot of those tenders).

While most tinplate cabooses don't show much variety, IMO, as compared to the O scale brass even, or HO brass world, I am guessing the Marx 3/16 caboose, with many more parts than a box car or gon, was due to cost control.  In plastic cabooses, Marx

was in at the beginning at the continuing practice of getting a lot of roadnames on one mold.  The caboose is my favorite car, too,, because of the tremendous variety in the

prototypes, but I don't like or collect many "tinplate" manufactured ones.

you have to admit, though, it's hard to beat Marx tinplate for colorful liveries.

You have some desirable ones there in really nice-looking shape.

Also have a soft spot for cabins/cabooses.  Here are just a few on roster.

Some of my favorites (in S Scale.)

A converted and scalified Flyer bay window caboose:

Variations on an American Models wood caboose:

A Cabbage is just a Caboose with a college education:

The next best thing to an NE12 is an NE13 Q waycar:

And finally, a little pixel magic creating an American Models caboose that never was:

Rusty

I used to have more cabeese than I do now. These shots were taken back in the late 1980's during a "Caboose Convention" at Dallas (PA) Penn Station.

I still have the C&NW FM and UP F units, though. Both now are upgraded to TMCC.

These days I'm known as 'The girl with the dragging caboose' 

I do not have that many PRR cabins because it is hard to find cabins without the shadow keystone, which did not appear until the 1950s.  Someday I will paint the handrails black to better fit my late 1940s era layout.

I also collect Bicentennial related trains which I hope to put on display someday.  Here are some of the cabooses I have.

A few Lionel PRR cabooses.

I almost had these two in the back yard... but the wife said NO! 

Maybe because one was yellow?

I have a bunch of cabooses, but here are a few ( MTH and K-Line and

the Lionel N5c):

Thanks to all for the interesting responses and photos.

Coloradohiraile - I always thought it was strange of Marx to offer only two road names in 3/16 as well.  (And as you say, no engine to match the Reading).  Probably is due to the complexity of construction.  I count 31 pieces to it.

But I partially remedied that situation with the U.P. critter below.  Also shown is an A.F. 3/16 prewar tin caboose repainted and modified to run with the Marx.

Here are some Milwaukee Road bay windows. Only the ribsides are correct, prototypical Milwaukee Road items. The three smooth-sided cabooses are generic; they resemble actual Milwaukee Road units but are not fully prototypical.

Top from left: Weaver brass (original lettered style); Weaver brass (1950's style); Overland brass 2-rail (late paint with safety yellow ends).

Bottom from left:Lionel, K-Line, MTH

This one has WiFi!

From Kusan Army train 1959

franktrain

I love this one, but it needs the proper herald.

 

 

 

Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:

Some of my favorites (in S Scale.)

 

 

Variations on an American Models wood caboose:

 

 

Rusty

Rusty

Here is pic's of my caboose's

One I built years ago.....but still have kept.

I thought they called cabooses on the PRR "cabin cars"!

Thanks to all that have posted, what an interesting thread!  I like cabooses, too.  Here’s some photos of mine.

Starting with IMO the most colorful postwar Lionel caboose:

Color wise, it’s all downhill from here so here’s the DRAB-est example:

Now its north to Alaska for some color:

Back to the basic red cabooses, here’s a hard-to-find post-war Bay-window caboose:

The other post-war bay-windows plus the #6557 smoking caboose, the PRR #6417 w/o “NY Zone” caboose (I mean cabin car) and a couple of #6357’s:

A little bit of color showing in this photo of more N5C’s including both the Gray and the rare Tuscan Lehigh Valley, the Blue Virginian, two “Lionel Lines” and one more Pennsy cabin car:

The only Pennsy N5C that came without a light:

And a tinplate cabin car:

And to close out the post-war era, a 6419 work caboose without “DL&W” or “N&W”:

Now for the modern era, but with a warning to non-PRR fans: all of my modern era cabooses are Pennsy cabin cars.  Starting with some non-Lionel showing two Williams and just three of the many K-Line PRR versions:

Now for modern-era Lionel, starting with a little 4-wheeler:

Now for some slightly larger ones from starter sets:

And from the Last Set in the Famous American Railroad Series:

Here’s one from my home town (TCA 50^th anniversary set) and it smokes (look at those antennas):

How about this big guy and he still smokes:

This bay-window guy doesn’t smoke but he talks a lot: 

Now back to working on the railroad, this guy quit smoking; in fact he quit lighting up at all:

And for a refreshing change, here’s a colorful one all lit up:

And I saved my favorite for last.  It’s not really a modern-era Lionel product but it was redecorated during the modern-era, does that count?  It’s a post-war smoking caboose chassis with a post-war 6357 body custom-painted to Pennsy by a friend.  Too bad he gave it a GG-1 number!  But as you can see, it smokes very well:

That’s the end, hope you enjoyed!

Bill

how about 'mancave'...

Here are two of my favorites

Well, Bill - you SURE came to this party prepared - GREAT collection there!

Thank you, Carlton.

Bill

Made from a broken caboose in 1953.

David:

That’s neat!  Now we know where RMT got their ideas for shortened rolling stock.

Bill

David,

I love that little guy! Excellent.

A couple of my favorites:

Something very special about this one to a collector:

Jim

You have the 2357 red stack version, Jim.  You're not kidding that's special!

Thanks to everyone for the lovely examples.  PRR seems to be the favorite road, huh?

Here a couple that were built from the old Williams kits.

Later this week I might post a sister caboose for the P & R, it's a woodside caboose.

Have to find the camera then post it to photobucket then post it here.

Lee Fritz

Still working on these two.....

How about some Reading cabooses?

A Philadelphia and Reading woodside caboose and a Monopoly set caboose, then a Reading bobber caboose.

Lee Fritz