I was out in the train room earlier this evening rearranging a few things when I realized I had more cabooses than I thought… In fact I’ve got a caboose for each road and each era beginning with the 1920s, 40s, 60s and 80s. From wood to steel to bay window…
Anyone else out there a caboose collector ?.
Tracklayer
yes I am a caboose junkie, I have about 15-20 and they all are other railraods that were taken over by UP.
I have about 33, almost all UP, does that make me a collector?[:D]
Absolutely. I have around 25 Great Northern cabooses. Many different types, 16 of which are brass, 4 are wooden kits, a pair which are kitbashed Atlas cars, and one that I scratchbuilt-a 25-foot wooden caboose.
Would it be fair to say I’m a collector of cabeese if I have more of them then I do loco’s? [X-)]
Actually, I own very few full brake vans (aka cabeese.) Most of mine are box-brakes, with a few other types that have brakeman’s compartments on otherwise standard freight cars (notably the hopper-brakes of the TTT.)
Looking forward to the day when I’m in full operation, I’m actually a few short!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I’m a caboose collector, mostly Canadian railroads. I have 14 so far and I’m always on the look out for more.
I don’t collect cabs as such but my era is end-of-caboose operation so I want a caboose with a different number for the tail of each train except an intermodal and a unit coal train that will have FREDs… so the difficulty of getting different caboose numbers in anything but UP or ATSF drives me NUTS [banghead][banghead][banghead]
I had a heck of a time until the Walthers PRR Platium came out. I got one of those, I probably will get more.
Im gunning for a brass Bay Window Wagontop in the B&O and I suppose that will make me a collector… but wait! Collectors keep trains in boxes, I run mine.
Caboose stuff in HO scale is unsatisfactory, I managed to buy several Proto ones and strip them to install my own decals. Everything is either modern era or UP.
I’m the same way, I hate anything that has the same number. I refuse to buy anything that has the same number I already have.
I’m sort of a Caboose collector. I have Five (soon to be 6) and 2 (soon to be 3) are in regular service on my 3% grade. Those two are some werid looking cabooses, one has a hand railing on to of it!
I was for a while…collected about 20 of them but I stopped now…I am concentrating on modern stuff now…but I still have Cabooses that’s sitting in original box awaiting me to give them Micro-Trains. Another sad facet of the hobby.
Amazingly enough, No. I’ve always wanted to be a caboose collector, but it is one area that for some reason or another I’ve not pursued. I would guess I have relatively the fewest cabooses in my “caboose collection” than any other thing I collect.
I have a large caboose fleet but don’t consider myself a collector. To me a collector is someone who buys equipment to display on a shelf. My caboose fleet is in use on the layout. I have a large railroad and model a period when each crew typically was assigned to a caboose. This means more cabooses than the number of trains being run in a typical session. My main yard has separate caboose tracks for east and westbound trains. Each of these holds about 6 cabooses.
I am sort of but the cabooses I have must be plausable for my railroad (more or less) and they must run flawlessly. I guess I’m not a collector because the main purpose of my trains is to enjoy seeing them run as opposed to displaying them inertly on a shelf. I like building unusual (aren’t they all) logging and other odd narrow gauge cabeese. I also have a passion for other types of cabeese although I don’t collect or run them.
Between my son and I we have 57. Is that a lot? Weare selling off a half dozen to thin the herd.
I pretty much hate cabooses, I own two that seldom see time on the mainline.
-beegle55
Yup. I love cabooses. I have about 20 of them. All modern(ish) steel ones.
Nick
Not really , I only have three , all painted by me for the SP. This picture only shows two. I have one in a box that will be painted for my fictional short line , also bay window.
Well I would have said “yes” before I read some of these posts!! I guess at 8 cabooses I’m just a casual drinker compared to some of you out-of-control caboozers !! [;)]
I have two I decorated for my freelance St.Paul Route (including one with removeable roof and added full interior) and two Great Northerns, plus one each from DM&IR, BN (bay window), Rock Island (outside braced) and Soo Line. I’ll probably in the future add cabooses from C&NW, MN&S and CN/DW&P, maybe a BN extended vision caboose, and a wood one from New York Central[%-)]…hey, I need something to run with that BLI Hudson!! [(-D]