Tail End Tuesday

Here's my rear for this week's edition of Tail End Tuesday.   " A tender rear."

Couple Crummy's racing in a tunnel, have a good Tail End Tuesday

Editorial comment: I can’t keep up with the threads that have a day ending in “y”🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Last week, I ran Reading extended-vision caboose #94105 (K-Line K613-1932, MSRP $44.95, 1999) behind Reading 0-6-0T #1251 (Lionel 6-28613, MSRP $99.99, 2004). The caboose and locomotive are from different eras but, at least, the railroad is the same...

MELGAR

@Sitka - nothing like a caboose race especially in a tunnel!  I wonder if the conductor's in those tail end car were cheering their locomotive driver on for more speed. @MELGAR- great looking extended vision caboose.

So for me today, I have something absolutely outrageous!  This Lionel caboose is so far from scale/reality as to be unbelievable but here it is, just for fun on this hot (expected to hit 106 in Waco today) Tuesday. The Lionel "L.A.S.E.R. " train caboose, complete with anti-aircraft guns, radioactive material and a chrome finish.  This entire fantasy train, which I purchased because of its reasonably accurate model of a cruise missile (on which I worked as an Air Force engineer in the 80's), has this most outrageous caboose.  So anyway I thought I would celebrate T.E.T. with a "bang"!

Best wishes for a continued great week.  Stay cool if at all possible, this high heat is dangerous

Don

Don - highly reflective finish will repel enemy lasers, EMPs, Gamma rays, plasma streams, and is good to have around in case you need to check your look. 😜

@Mark V. Spadaro - What a great answer Mark!!  I had not thought about the advantages of the reflective finish, especially the last comment

Don

Railking NYC Steel Caboose, in PCM deco, only offered, AFAIK, in RTR set 30-4046-1

Here's my " frosty" rear for today:  Brakeman Norm Evans steps out on the caboose's rear deck just as the rear of his train is consumed by the tunnel.

@Mark V. Spadaro- neat caboose, I am not too familiar with MTH "Rail King" but that looks like a very handsome set.  @trumptrain-  Patrick, I remember your excellent pictures from last winter and this one really looks great.  Super photo.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Mark V. Spadaro- neat caboose, I am not too familiar with MTH "Rail King" but that looks like a very handsome set.  @trumptrain-  Patrick, I remember your excellent pictures from last winter and this one really looks great.  Super photo.

Best Wishes

Don

Thanks so much Don!!  

The east end of a west bound GG-1…

Have a good Tail End Tuesday!

Burlington Northern Santa Fe #6131171 is a K-Line model (K613-1171) from the 1999 1st Edition catalog with MSRP $44.95. The video shows it running at the tail end of a train pulled by Great Northern SW8 #98 (model by Atlas O).

MELGAR

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!    I snapped this photo on Sunday when I visited Hamburg NY.    A beautifully painted ALCO high hood unit.   Will share more photos of this unit and others in this weekend's Switcher Saturday.

Well T.E.T. fans, I expect you have heard about Marx's surprise in 1948 when Unique Art's Toys came out with an 0 gauge train set.  Marx was completely upstaged and rushed into production a competitive line ready by the 1949 season, what collectors now refer to as his 7" line.  This line was never really extensive and has few variations except in the caboose.  He made 8 different 7" cabooses, the 3 pictured below plus B&O, Nickel Plate, ATSF, Monon  and Mickey Mouse. So today I thought I might show you 3 of the 8 (I don't have the Mickey Mouse - too expensive).  Note that as well as the 4 wheel variety shown below he also made the NYC and the B&O in both 4 and 8 wheel versions and the  ATSF was an 8 wheel version only.

Well here is the 7" trio that I have for today, KSC, NYC, and SP.  These 7" cars were always lithographed tinplate but came with both Tab/slot and plastic knuckle couplers at various times and to match other rolling stock in a set.

Best Wishes

Don

A Lionel NYC Pacemaker Tuesday tail end…

A seldom seen Lionel PRR N5c

Ok, I’m late, I’m sorry, but these folks wanted to go around in circles for laughs… Happy Tail End Tuesday, but happy Wednesday to…. Happy Railroading

Have a good Tail End Tuesday another wet upstate NY day.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!  I took this shot of a Pennsy Decapod two weekends ago in Hamburg, NY.

Ancient S&C 12 beings up the rear of a freight heading to Rossiter Junction and the S&C connection at Endsville on the Baltimore & New York RY.

This caboose model, based on a Wichita Falls & Southern prototype, was built in 1988 and features interior detail.

S. Islander

Well hello T.E.T. fans, this week I am going to continue my showing of some Marx trains, but this one needs a bit of an explanation.  Marx after the war, in about 1945, realized the potential of plastic both in terms of molded detail and reduced production cost.  It took him a few years to convert his factories from metal to plastic but in 1952 the first plastic cars began to appear, and would be the majority of the line up until the company ceased production in the 1970's (although some tinplate did remain until the end - the 6" cars dating from 1935 being the best example).  He made 3 lines of cars, usually referred to as 4-wheel (lightweight), 8-wheel, and deluxe 8-wheel (this last term is a hobby term, Marx never used the word deluxe).  Each line contains some cars which for specific reasons, mostly unknown, are more scarce than the others.  Today I have one of those.  The reasons for such scarcity are lost to history, likely its because a given configuration was put out for a regional purpose, at a large customer's request (Sears / Allstate being the prime example of this) or simply  because production was stopped early.

  In the lightweight or 4-wheel area the KCS red plastic caboose is a scarcity, the car itself does not give rise to this as the mold, in many colors, was used for a wide variety of cabooses from many railroads, no its the stamping for the KCS railroad that makes this gal unique.  This red, KCS stamped 4-wheel caboose from 1958 is one of the most scarce of the 4-wheel line.

So here you go, a Marx "tail end" for this Tuesday, the #969  red / white stamped, KCS 4-wheel caboose.

Best wishes to you all, hope your week is progressing well.

Don

Well, TET, Tail end Tuesday’s sure come around fast, @Don McErlean, that’s a beautiful Marx caboose, your collection of Marx trains is to be envied, they were a pioneer of our hobby, Happy Railroading Everyone

This model of Union Pacific bay window caboose #24528 was made by K-Line in 1999. I ran it in a short train behind UP GP38-2 #2048 (model by MTH with PS1).

MELGAR

@leapinlarry - Larry thank you for the complement, but those "bay windows" are hard to beat, beautiful!  @MELGAR - same to you, that UP bay window is a beauty.  I loved the "safety slogan" sign under the rt. hand window (as pictured).

Best wishes to you both.  Stay cool in this heat and stay safe.

Don

Two of my favorites running today:

I saw this in Jacksonville, FL at the Amtrak station while there on fuel stop back n 2006:

@PRRMP54 posted:

I saw this in Jacksonville, FL at the Amtrak station while there on fuel stop back n 2006:

Have the MTH 20-4301 model of this car.

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Have the MTH 20-4301 model of this car.

Ron

Can we see? Pleeeese

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, TET, Tail end Tuesday’s sure come around fast, @Don McErlean, that’s a beautiful Marx caboose, your collection of Marx trains is to be envied, they were a pioneer of our hobby, Happy Railroading Everyone

This one has such nice bay windows that I think she needs a couple of flower boxes! Couldn't "highball" though...

Lionel - too bright - like a mobile surgical suite!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Can we see? Pleeeese

In the next couple/few days will pull it out and take some images to post here.

Ron

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Lionel - too bright - like a mobile surgical suite!

If you can get to the led, apply one or more thin coats of diluted CraftSmart water-based bright white acrylic paint to dim it without changing the color, though it does "warm" it somewhat. You can add coats to "dial in" the intensity you want. You can also easily remove this paint if desired since it does not bond to or craze the plastic led body. I do this with cab lighting in locomotives.

I didn't realize I hadn't checked in for so long.  I went all the way to the top of the page and had not seen any of the posts before.

We could always trust Patrick, and now Paul, to come up with some unique perspectives on tail ends.

Some pretty sweet cabooses on display here.  IMHO K-Line knocked it out of the park with their extended vision and bay window versions, a long way from their original Kusan caboose.

Mel, I've got three of those BNSF extended vision cabooses.  One will be tail end of a BNSF train, maybe inter-modal, the other two, a great eBay deal are destined to become Great Northern cabooses as soon as I can figure out how to cover the BNSF logo with Rocky decals.

I love the Aero-Train graphic on this guy.

Mark, how about never seen?  By me at least.

Don it's always nice to see your Marx contributions.

@Bill Swatos posted:

Can we see? Pleeeese

Bill here are two quick snaps.  Going to try to do better in next few days.

MTH billed this car as "Georgia (Inauguration Car) copying Obama's ride to DC for his swearing in.

But MTH screwed up by adding the Presidential seal drumhead on the rear.  No sworn in President was actually on board  at this/that time.  I am going to try and remove this drumhead sometime.

Lookup the history of the Georgia 300.  It has been used by several famous people including some Presidents.

Ron

@coach joe posted:

I didn't realize I hadn't checked in for so long.  I went all the way to the top of the page and had not seen any of the posts before.

We could always trust Patrick, and now Paul, to come up with some unique perspectives on tail ends.

Some pretty sweet cabooses on display here.  IMHO K-Line knocked it out of the park with their extended vision and bay window versions, a long way from their original Kusan caboose.

Mel, I've got three of those BNSF extended vision cabooses.  One will be tail end of a BNSF train, maybe inter-modal, the other two, a great eBay deal are destined to become Great Northern cabooses as soon as I can figure out how to cover the BNSF logo with Rocky decals.

I love the Aero-Train graphic on this guy.

Mark, how about never seen?  By me at least.

Don it's always nice to see your Marx contributions.

Coach - the above PRR caboose is from a Lionel PRR 4 car freight set, 6-21751. Set also contains a reefer with die cast frame, TOFC and 3 bay ACF covered hopper. It is such an unremarkable plain jane caboose that I added the Keystone decal, given to me by Chuck Sartor. Grahamstrains.com has crisp pictures of this set’s components.

@PRRronbh posted:

MTH billed this car as "Georgia (Inauguration Car) copying Obama's ride to DC for his swearing in.

But MTH screwed up by adding the Presidential seal drumhead on the rear.  No sworn in President was actually on board  at this/that time.  I am going to try and remove this drumhead sometime.

Ron

Maybe a small photo of Obama would work out OK  Ron.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Maybe a small photo of Obama would work out OK  Ron.

I think he is represented as one of the passengers.

Ron

Have a good start of your week. Keep America Strong!