Tail End Tuesday

@Sitka posted:

A job well done

Thank you, sir! Coming from you, it means a lot!

@Bill Swatos-good looking caboose Bill. Nice repair/ modification fix.
Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Bill Swatos-good looking caboose Bill. Nice repair/ modification fix.
Don

Thank you, Don. Your compliments mean a lot, too!

Have a good tail end and a great 4th of July on our Country's Birthday God Bless America!

Here is the (never actually made) Sager Place observation from the Lionel heavyweight set.

Happy Independence Day

Don

Happy July the 4th, Independence Day, edition of Tail End Tuesday everyone… there’s so many beautiful ends of trains posted here, all uniquely beautiful… Now, here we are on page 29 and every week it gets better. Happy Railroading Everyone

I wish all of you a happy and safe Fourth of July!

Well I can't believe that at 1000EST I am the first to post to "T.E.T."  From last week, among all the great pictures, I see CAPPilot with an observation from the American Freedom Train that I had never seen before.  Also @leapinlarry - great pictures of his fabulous layout and lots of "tail" ends.  Thanks to all those who posted last week.

Today I have two European tail ends.  First a Type 51 Hornby "Brake Van" disappearing into my tunnel.  The Type 51 was the last new O gauge trains Hornby marketed and they were available from about 1955- 1961.

Next from the French Hornby line is a Postal Van, note the slot for letters to be posted in the side, when this was parked at the station, you could insert your mail through that slot just like it was a roadside mailbox.  This version is from the late 40's.

Hope you are all having a great week.  Best wishes, keep safe in this terrible heat!

Don

Have a good TET All!

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!  

Not your run of the mill offering for TET:

This unlettered MTH Premier caboose gets run whenever I don't have a lettered caboose to go with the locomotive.

MELGAR

@Don McErlean posted:

Well I can't believe that at 1000EST I am the first to post to "T.E.T."  From last week, among all the great pictures, I see CAPPilot with an observation from the American Freedom Train that I had never seen before.  Also @leapinlarry - great pictures of his fabulous layout and lots of "tail" ends.  Thanks to all those who posted last week.

Today I have two European tail ends.  First a Type 51 Hornby "Brake Van" disappearing into my tunnel.  The Type 51 was the last new O gauge trains Hornby marketed and they were available from about 1955- 1961.

Next from the French Hornby line is a Postal Van, note the slot for letters to be posted in the side, when this was parked at the station, you could insert your mail through that slot just like it was a roadside mailbox.  This version is from the late 40's.

Hope you are all having a great week.  Best wishes, keep safe in this terrible heat!

Don

Always unique items for our eyes and interesting stories for us Don.   Thank you for sharing from the Lone Star State.

@trumptrain posted:

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!  

Good looking tail on the  Santa Fe switcher Patrick ( and front end   ) .

@MELGAR posted:

This unlettered MTH Premier caboose gets run whenever I don't have a lettered caboose to go with the locomotive.

MELGAR

Really good idea Mel........kinda keeps me from trying to spend on a caboose for my CP engines.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Not your run of the mill offering for TET:

You have me guessing Mark.  What is it and do you have a side view ? 

Tail End Tuesday

SP passenger train with Mallee on the front and SP Harriman “tail end” car.

Dallas here is the side view you requested:

MTH Railking Chessie Crane Car

MTH Railking Chessie Crane Tender, custom painted and decaled by Ron045.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Dallas here is the side view you requested:

MTH Railking Chessie Crane Car

MTH Railking Chessie Crane Tender, custom painted and decaled by Ron045.

Thanks Mark.    Great looking custom work by Ron.

Glad I asked for the side view. Thanks for sharing sir.

Have a smoke filled Tail End Tuesday in upstate NY Keep those rail shinning, God Speed!

Here's my rears for this fine Friday!  " Early end of train devices."

Lionel, die cast, smoke (never worked), from the ‘90s:

Here is an "old" tail end, kind of reminds me of myself .  The Lionel Standard Gauge #182 observation car from 1918-1922.  This car was restored by a friend of mine that I worked with in the early 90's.  Its one of only 3 std gauge sets that I have and I really can't run any of them (no room!).

Hope you are having a good week.  My grandson and I managed to made it home from our vacation after a long 1200 mile drive over 2 days  (Me, one non driving teenager, and 2 cats!).  Best wishes to everyone.  Keep safe, it is blistering hot here in Waco, forecast to reach 108 today was 106 yesterday, so watch out for the sun especially if you have to work outside.

Don

New York Central caboose #21039 by K-Line doesn't really fit well behind a steam engine but I run it anyway.

MELGAR

A couple tails for this mighty fine and sunny Tuesday.Grass is cut.......a cold one for Judy and me .........and a visit to the layout...........LIFE  IS  GOOD.                                God speed all.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

A couple tails for this mighty fine and sunny Tuesday.Grass is cut.......a cold one for Judy and me .........and a visit to the layout...........LIFE  IS  GOOD.                                God speed all.

Tip one back for me Dallas, I can taste one now God Speed!

@Dallas Joseph posted:

A couple tails for this mighty fine and sunny Tuesday.Grass is cut.......a cold one for Judy and me .........and a visit to the layout...........LIFE  IS  GOOD.                                God speed all.

A couple of cold ones for the crew and trains! Life is definitely good.

Tail end Tuesday’s are always fun to review. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Lionel, die cast, smoke (never worked), from the ‘90s:

Mark, Lionel's PW smoking cabooses required a certain interior bulb to get the right current flow to the smoke unit. Perhaps the wrong bulb is installed in yours?

Have a good Tail End all!

Last week, I ran New York Central Lines bobber caboose #380 at the tail end of a freight train pulled by Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 0-6-0T #15.

MELGAR

Well I am a little early today so I thought I might "foot stomp" my prior forum thread friends!

Here for Sitka is a Lehigh Valley tail end.  (Marx #112 loco from 1974-76).  While I don't have an exact date on the LV caboose, the black painted truck facade on a 4 wheel body is a late variation, likely 1970's as well)

For Melgar - here is a NYC pair. (Marx #588 from 1958-1962) Again, while the caboose has no specific date the #18326 NYC since it does not have the painted facade is likely an early version matching the engine.  This caboose came in many, many color schemes over the years but all marked NYC.

Note that both these cabooses are 4 wheel "lightweight" models (meaning basically a one piece body casting fitted with 4 wheels on 2 axles) .  Marx also made some of them as 8 wheel models but the 4 wheel version is what would normally have been packed with the pictured locomotives in sets - as the locomotives were one of Marx's basic locomotives supplied with low end sets.

Best Wishes

Don

@Bill Swatos posted:

Mark, Lionel's PW smoking cabooses required a certain interior bulb to get the right current flow to the smoke unit. Perhaps the wrong bulb is installed

Bill, I believe this caboose has a heater element that’s not bulb powered.

Lionel - comes with a question. Is this 1992, 6-19714, Lionel caboose from the pre-command era, at risk for bulb & smoke unit burnout and roof melting? I have no idea when Lionel introduced TMCC, nor when they started producing cars with electronics beefed up to handle the increased power input.

Even though the Santa Fe had red "way cars" and not blue ones, this one matches my SF blue and yellow GP30. I like the later MTH cabooses that have not only illuminated interiors, but also an illuminated red marker light on each end. Many O scale cabooses have no marker lights at all. 😳

Here is my new MTH Westinghouse caboose from Stockyard Express.

Trainz was having a clearance sale, so I bought all of the RK Diecast items they had listed! Here's one of them I just received today:

I can't remember who posted about theirs before, but they inspired me to get this diecast NYC "woodsider." It weighs as much as a loco, has great details (the conductor in the cupola is drinking a cup of coffee!) and is just plain fun! The only problem I've noted is that the trucks are modern Timken rollerbearing. Now, I have to get a mid-sized NYC locomotive to match the vintage of this caboose. Any suggestions?

Lionel die cast on right, MTH RK die cast on left.

Ron

Happy Tail End Tuesday all!

John