Tail End Tuesday

Tailends for this fine Tuesday.

I really like that little tank switcher, Patrick.

Here's some "Tail End" shots to complete your Tuesday.

So which end is the "Tail End" of an RDC?

Happy Tail End Tuesday!

Hi Artie, I finally made it, although a day late but wanted to contribute...thanks for keeping it going

Wow, Paul, what a nice night shot! You’re welcome, but I love seeing other people’s photos.

Artie

It’s Tail End Tuesday! Here’s the tavern lounge car of the Phoebe Snow leaving Lionelville for points west.

Tailends for this fine Tuesday!

Nice caboose track, there, Patrick!

My contribution is a model of an odd ball combination car in T&P livery. Note the corrected color of the T&P engine and the oil tender.

Oops. Didn't capture my attachment.

The photographer caught this old N6 cabin coming into town and was amazed at how good it looked.  Must have just been overhauled.  He was kind of disappointed the conductor did not wave back.

MTH.

Some nice tails.......

Here are a few. The Big Boy somehow snuck into the picture. I suppose it's okay since the BB commemorative caboose is just one shelf below.

Great tail ends, guys!

It’s nice to have great threads on the OGR Forum to read and learn from, FEF and TET, fronts of trains are very interesting as is the tail ends, Wow.

Artie,  I hope you don't mind that I'm doing a similar photo, but I liked yours and remembered that I had this combination.  This engine is a U33 Boat,  Can anyone tell me why they are called boats ?

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Doug

After German submarines, known as U-Boats.

Couple pics for my earlier post.......guess I cannot add to post. Actually about the same pics, but just got a new

camera and trying it out. Not sure

I see any increase in photo quality

This Tail End or more commonly known as the Rear End from Christmas time…Enjoy!!

Here's one of mine - B & O.

Charlie

CAPPilot she's a beaut!

Tail ends for this fine Tuesday!  

Doug, I like that U-boat and caboose. I just inadvertently started a new Tail End thread. Great photos, everyone!

I’m going to add my photo again, as I don’t know what happened to my post. Here’s an AEC caboose (RMT) behind an AEC Security Car (Lionel) at Area 51.

Not 100% sure this counts, but what the heck.

Mitch

I’m not sure either, Mitch, but I’d say it counts! (Not even sure what that is!).

@Artie-DL&W posted:

I’m not sure either, Mitch, but I’d say it counts! (Not even sure what that is!).

Mary Christmas, part of my holiday train (for the older generations). 

Mitch

I'd say Santa is a lucky man.

It's still Tuesday in my train world.

Wow, talk about Christmas in July!

Marx El Capitan

It’s Tail End Tuesday! Here’s my first for this week, a NYC observation car rounds a curve near Lionelville.

Two for Tuesday! Here’s two of my favorite tail end cars on the tracks. The Dunmore caboose was built by Malcolm.

Tom

Tails for this fine Tuesday!

Long hood forward.

Transfer caboose.

Nice, Tom and Patrick! Hope to see more!

Artie

Tom and Patrick each of you have provided us with a couple of fine tail ends.

Here’s my tail ends for this Tuesday

Here is my tails, pick one. Good news is I will be able to use the photos again for front end friday.

John

Tail end meets front end...

Tom

Tailends for this fine Tuesday!

Very nice tail ends. I especially liked Lee’s “woody”, and Don’s over and under shot on a classic layout. I have a nice set of those classic passenger cars.

beardog49, that looks unique!

Tom and Patrick, realistic shots of the tail ends!

Thanks for the kind words Artie! I've tried to capture a "classic" look on my layout.

Here's a color version of the same shot. The "classic" 726 is a modern LionChief remake, but the cars are the real deal.

Well I am a day late, but here is a tail end shot of my new ATSF Marx Caboose made between '52-'59

Two older American Flyer tail ends...a American Flyer "champion" train from 1928-1935 but parlor car shown made from '31-'32)

American Flyer enameled passenger train from the late 30's (1939 for the cars)

Well, since its "tail end Tuesday" I guess I can be the tail end and a day late!

Don

Here’s today’s Tail End. I guess it’s the way you look at it.

I added battery powered marker lamps to a G scale Piko caboose, with an on/off switch underneath. Looks great at night!

I think this is the third or fourth tail end tuesday I have posted while looking out the window seeing everything obliterated

by the smoke from the california wildfires. Don't think we will get a summer this year.

Anyway, here are my tails.

A flyer cast aluminum zephyr, a tinplate zephyr, and another tinplate zephyr that someone has modified to

look like an aluminum zephyr. Good job actually. If you look he drilled out the sides of the added marker

lights so you could see them from front and sides.

John

The man himself bringing up the tail end this Tuesday -

This fine Tuesday's tail ends.

Happy TET!

Here’s today’s Tail End

Tail ends  for this fine Tuesday!

Here’s a Piko G gauge drovers caboose running through a crossing on my outdoor layout.

Here's a Union Pacific City of Los Angeles observation car's tail end as it would have looked between 1937 ~ 1941.

Well its somewhat late, but here is my "TE" for today.  Its another Marx work caboose but this time its the Western Pacific variant, from 1957.

This picture shows his "long" toolboxes and fancy end railings, these made the work caboose a Marx "deluxe" car at least iaw most collectors.

Best Regards

Don

Here’s my Tail End for today.

Here is the tail end of  little MTA Switcher. He's inspecting the elevated line -

A tail for today.

@trumptrain posted:

A tail for today.

I love those MTH work cabooses. I'd love to get one but I have never found one in a road name I'd like to have.

Happy Tail End Tuesday. This is from our honeymoon in Virginia. The location was Shenandoah, VA. They had a great rail yard there too.

I can’t get enough shots of this guy.

Well its T.E.T so I guess i need to get my "T" moving and post...so here is a little train, never an official set, that I made up with my "Allstate" tank cars, tender, and caboose.  In my little train, the engine which you can't see (its T.E. Tuoesday !) is a #400 but with an "Allstate" slope back tender.  The tankers are all Allstate of various levels the last one a simple 4 wheel low end plastic tanker.  The caboose is the orange Allstate bay window from 1958-1959, what Marx collectors typically call a "deluxe" car, although Marx never made any such distinction.

Here is a better look at the "tail end" and the caboose.

Hope you all have a great week

Don

Here is my TE.

Here's a Union Pacific City of Los Angeles dome observation tail end as it would have looked between early 1955 ~ Oct 1956.

A couple of late tail end contributions.

I certainly can't compete with beardog49's cat, but here is the tail end of what I think is the finest observation car ever made in 3rail - the 3rd Rail/GGD "Moon Glow" car from the GM Train of Tomorrow:

That is awesome

October 2013.  Wabash, Indiana.  765 excursion on the NS from Ft. Wayne to Lafayette, Indiana.

Tom

Here's my first try at a repaint. Not perfect but it was crusty and rusty when I started.  Marx CP tail end caboose.

Dean

@beardog49 posted:

That is awesome

I second the motion.

EOTs:

Time for some PostWar tail ends -

Here are my tail ends for this fine Tuesday!

Rusty

Here's the tail end of a 1952 Lionel #2531 observation car with ribbed channels and name plates attached with hex head screws.

Tail end of the GGD Silver Meteor set - and very silver it is too:

Lionel MPC tail end for Tuesday...

A little late (had minor out-patient surgery today), but here’s an oldie, but goodie!

LIONEL repaints; they've held up well for 25+ years.

Well here we are again with a Tuesday but I again have to take my wife up to Ft. Worth for a medical appointment early tomorrow...so I am posting Monday evening for Tuesday morning.

My offering today is an American Flyer (Chicago Flyer)  observation car from 1925-1926.  This is the #1207 observation .  The tail sign or drumhead reading "Flyer Limited".  Note that the rear windows in the car body were not punched out...this is in fact the way the car was made in the 1920's .

Here he is with his 1306 American Flyer Pullman .  This gives you a side view so you can see more of the car.

Hope your week is going well, happy Tuesday

Don

Here's the rears for this fine Tuesday!  

Here is the tail end of an RMT Bang S-4 switcher in MTA colors with a bonus shot of an MTH NW-2 Switcher underneath -

Here's the classic tail end of a 1953 Lionel Lines #2423 Hillside observation car.

Just in time to catch the UP's Portland Rose blasting across Packard's Creek:

Rusty

hey Don, there is another 1708 on epay. Cheaper than mine, but a lot rougher.

John

A classic postwar DL&W work caboose. I installed opaque styrene in the windows, as I hope to install lighting later.

Well, it has a tail, at any rate...

Courtesy of @beardog49...

Mitch

Yay it survived USPS

@beardog49 posted:

Yay it survived USPS

Well, hadda glue a bit of the tail back on, but largely survived, yeah! 

Mitch

Here’s a fantasy tinplate tail end. Recently I made myself a Christmas train. This tail started life as a standard gauge peacock/orange observation car No 341 circa 1925-33.

Tom

Here’s the Tail End of a Golden State passenger train running at Old Town Model Railroad Depot in San Diego.  This photo was taken on their “City at Night” side of the 2,000+ square foot layout.

Tail end of an R-17 as an R-36 approaches on the El -

Here's my rears..... rear of a Woody wagon, Tucker Torpedo, and a Renault off in the distance.

Pennsy cabin car rear with rear end brakeman.

Here’s my tail end for this Tuesday-a classic Lionel 6457 from late ‘40’s and early 50’s. I was into my HO, and dabbling in getting back into O gauge, when I discovered this on a visit to my in-laws in Maryland around the mid-nineties. I had always wanted a classic Lionel caboose, and found this almost new model at a train show nearby.
Although I had two Lionel freight sets since my birth in 1947, I don’t remember having a caboose until I was in my pre-teens, and bought a 6119 DL&W work caboose. (Hey, it was my local railroad!). I don’t get another traditional caboose until I bought a set in 1958. This led me back into 3 rail.

Nice photo Artie.  I love that caboose. I had two of the SP style cabooses on my layout that I built when I was a kid in the early fifties, but both had only one coupler. I remember wishing they had a coupler on the both ends like the 6457. Yours is a beauty!

Thanks, Jerry. Ironically, the caboose I received with my 1958 set was a 6017, but in gray. That caboose supposedly only came in the Marine Corp set, but I guess anything was happening in Hillside at that time. Unfortunately, that caboose and my early trains were sold by me in the 70’s to get a pair of ski boots!

Tom

A different perspective of the tail end :

Rusty

OK everyone, so I am late for sure, its 1930 here in the Central Time Zone...BUT its still Tuesday right?  So here are some tail ends for today.

Marx, Joy Line Express from 1934-35 showing the observation car.  This is a clockwork set with the Gerard Model Works sheet metal locomotive.  This was the last year that the "JOY LINE" by Gerard was marketed and sold by Louis Marx as their agent.

Artie DL&W : a Lionel that is a close kin to your 6457 the Tuscan bodied 2357 from 1947-48.  These were great caboose's with tool boxes underneath, lighting, and excellent detail in the railings, brakerail and ladder.

Best wishes everyone

Don

Don, that caboose sure looks good at the end of those classic boxcars!

Thanks Artie...I like the old postwar ones because with their weight they track so well.

Regards.

Don

Looks like a Brewery worker left work early and took a cold brew with him, And took a ride on a crummie. God Speed All!

Tail ends for this Tuesday! Some Lackawanna and EL tails for this week:

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!

Tail end in the yard - a Lionel DMIR Caboose -

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Tail ends for this Tuesday! Some Lackawanna and EL tails for this week:

@Artie-DL&W

Artie: This a very unique caboose. Is this made by one of the major manufacturers or is it scratch-built? Also, was this style of caboose unique to the Lackawanna RR? The detailing in this model is superb with the applied grab irons and roof walk boards. I would also like to see photos of both the ends of the car and the bottom. If you want to do this off-line, my E-Mail address is in my profile.

Hi Randy,

this is an actual model of the cabooses that the Lackawanna RR made in their home shops. The original caboose plans were based on the railroad’s previously home-built wood cabooses. These steel ones were built on retired and junked steam tender frames, as diesels were purchased. They were unique to the Lackawanna for the most part, but other small roads bought them as the merged Erie-Lackawanna replaced them with newer caboose.  This model was built by Brother Love (Malcolm) who posts his builds here on the forum, from the original plans from the railroad, and photos that I supplied. As you can see, he builds beautiful scale models.

Take care, Artie

Here's the Tail End of a Lionel #2420 D. L. & W. two tone work caboose.   This early 1946 version has dark gray tool boxes & cab mounted on a light gray frame.  Besides the operating coil couplers other fun details were included like working spot light, stainless steel hand rails, metal stove pipe, metal ladder, metal side steps and metal hand brake.   

The remainder of my caboose roster:

Rusty

Here's the tail end of a 1959 Lionel #6557 smoking caboose.   The sweet smell coffee and hot breakfast rises out of the stove pipe as the crew passes through a rail yard.

Here’s the Tavern/lounge of the Phoebe Snow, and an Erie bay window caboose at the tail of a short freight.

Private car, "Virginia City," pre WW-II Walthers rebuild, Office car, modified Walthers and the National Limited,  with a 1948 Kasiner observation finished as "Genesee River."

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!  

Early morning freight with two cabeese on the rear.

Here's a patriotic tail end Tuesday.

It is late 1949 and the photographer was taking pictures of a PRR L1 when a fast express train passed behind him.  The train was made up of several R50s and a lot of B60s and X-29s, and a few from other roads.  He was able to turn his camera just in time to take a photo of an old P70 being used as a crew car at the tail end. 

3rd Rail brass

Chief Drew's Wisconsin Central MTH SP-45 recently purchased from @GG1 4877 with a mixed freight and C&NW caboose.

It’s Tail End Tuesday again! For 10/12/21, here’s another shot of Brother Love’s beautifully built Keyser Shops’ Lackawanna caboose.

Rusty