Atlas Trainman Cabooses

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I am trying to determine if the NYC had any cabooses similar to the HO scale Atlas Trainman C & O style cabooses? Can someone direct me to a website or to photos? I am not a member of the NYC society so I can not access their photo library.

Thanks

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go to the fallen flags web site and you can find a bunch of photos of many railroads. i don’t recall ever seeing that style cab on the NYC. they had mostly the short cupola style and later on bay window cabs.

grizlump

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NYC had some wood center-cupola cabooses…

I believe the only steel cabooses the NYC had (other than a few transfer cabooses) were bay-window cabooses as someone mentioned in an earlier response.

Walthers / Proto makes a 4-window center-cupola caboose, but it’ steel like the Atlas one. Walthers makes a wood center-cupola caboose, but it only has two windows.

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-CABOOSE.htm

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Thanks everyone. I tried those suggestions as well as few others. I had a feeling that was going to be the case.

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If you mainly just want an NYC steam era wood caboose, Trix/Marklin made a very good NYC 3-window caboose (the stack was way too long and you had to change the couplers from NEM to US type) but it hasn’t been made for a few years. It might turn up on ebay or flea markets.

Otherwise the Walthers 4-window offset cupola cabooses are pretty close to the NYC 17000 class - if you don’t mind painting and decorating it yourself and changing the trucks…

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-7560

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I have the two styles of wood cabooses that Walthers offered. I also have a Walthers and an Athearn steel bay window caboose. I have been looking for the Trix caboose but they are out of production and difficult to find.

Thanks

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I was looking for a SOO caboose and found a Trainman one.

But I’ve learned this one is a fake. [:(!]

Wolfgang

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You could probably find one of the Athearn extended-vision Soo Line kits online or at a flea market for $4-5 dollars.

BTW I think DSS&A had some centercab cabooses, could be this model is of one of them from after the SOO took over the South Shore in 1960?? If not, tell people that anyway…see how long it takes til someone knows it’s wrong. [}:)]