I have eight.
Three Micro Trains wood sheated, four Atlas steel side and one Model Power steel side that I converted to MOW.
They all have standard cupolas and my favorites are the wood sheated.
Slightly off topic:
I was wondering about the plural of caboose.
Is it cabooses
cabeese, like geese
caboosi, like cacti
or caboose, like moose?
Just wondering…
Also, I sure do miss seeing them. I’ll never get over a train without a caboose.
Sixty. Favorite is Atlas Standard.
I only have 6 at the present moment.
I have 4 Athearn wide vision 1each → CP, Seaboard, Conrail, Undecorated
1 Athearn standard undecorated
1 Roco standard CP
1 Crown standard CP
I’m working on getting at least 1 each of D&H & MEC
Gordon
The one saving grace for the caboose is locals. I have seen several here in Georgia on CSX. They head up the tracks with engine on front, and then they back down with caboose taking up the lead and the engine pushing. In fact they just replaced the CSX caboose here in Athens with another one. I spent today trying to get some shots of it.[;)]
9 total, 3 MOW or track cleaners
1 bay Window
3 standard
2 wide virson
my favorite is an Athern BN wide version, great colors, silver roof, yellow ends, green sides with white markers. This caboose is why I started modeling BN, CAboose first loco’s and cars second.[swg]
GO PATRIOTS
I have one kit. I like wood sided with cupola and haven’t seen too many of those in S. But I’ll scratch build if I have to - after I get the track down.
Enjoy
Paul
Geez, I never thought about that one before. Well, since I model the CB&Q in the late 1960’s, the vast majority are Burlington. Let’s see, I have…
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Burlington:
2 - 3 window “wood” (Walthers)
7 - 4 window “wood” (2 are brass - 1 Mineral Red and 1 Chinese Red; the rest are plastic (Walthers): 2 Mineral Red, 2 - Chinese Red, I Undec.
1 or 2 each “wood” or “steel” in plastic made by MDC and Athearn, silver
1 - MDC “old timer” plastic “wood” caboose in Mineral Red
1 - 3 window plastic “wood” (MDC) “Hannibal & St. Joseph (CB&Q)”
1 - Bachmann/Model Power(?) plastic “steel” NE-12, silver
1- brass NE-12, silver
3 or 4 Atlas RTR “metal” Wide Vision, silver
1 - Athearn plastic “metal” Wide Vision, silver
1 - Athearn plastic “metal” Bay Window, silver
3 - Laserkit real wood cabooses to be built and painted Mineral Red
Non-Burlington:
1 - Bachmann(?) UP bobber caboose, “wood”
1- TP&W plastic “metal” orange/white paint
1 - Rock Island plastic “wood” (MDC “Old Timer”(?)
1 - CNW plastic “steel” Athearn(?) “Employee Owned”
2 - Transfer caboose kits – (Walthers and Moloco)
…and I think that’s it from memory.
So that makes a total of something like approximately 30. Holy snikeys!!! [:O]
My layout is pretty small so I can only support 5 right now.
I have 2 bay window, 1 wide vision, 1 NE steel type and 1 wood NKP. My favorites are wood types and bobbers. Unfortunately there aren’t any bobbers in S scale and I haven’t had time to scratchbuild any. Once the layout gets closer to finished I plan on building one each of the 4 different ones used on the Ma&Pa.
Roger
I’m intrigued by the spread of road names listed by respondents. I understood that a caboose would stay basically on its home road, generally behind a home road loco. Is this not the case ?
As I build my freight car fleet, I acquire a caboose for about each 20 cars, currently I have 4 PRR cabooses. Should I be introducing neighbouring RR caboose into my roster ?
Geoff,
Cabooses usually stayed with their own railroad, so no, you wouldn’t normally see cabooses of one road on another’s tracks. There are exceptions, but GENERALLY this is true.
I listed cabooses from about ten roads for a couple of reasons. I model a terminal RR yard, where several roads coming to Peoria drop their trains off at a central yard, the terminal RR shuffles them around and assembles new trains, and the roads take their trains away. This is one of the few really legitimate ways you’d see lots of cabooses from different roads in the same place, and is why I model Peoria. I also like cabooses in general, and tend to buy and build cabooses that I really don’t have much of a use for!
12 UP, 1 Ely-Thomas
Probably six on a small scale layout. To increase operating difficulty, I’m going to run them on all freight trains on my shortline road I am building. Don’t have the numbers with me (they are currently in storage), but they are:
Chessie (3)
C&O
Rock Island (2?)
B&O
…maybe more?
-Jer
I have 7. They are as follows:
CA-1 U.P. 3255 By Lambert
CA-4 U.P. 25153 " Balboa
CA-4 U.P.25167 " "
CA-7 U.P.25432 " Overland
CA-9 U.P.25613 " "
CA-9 U.P.25634 " "
CA-11U.P.25832 " "
All are on the layout, most in use, but a couple just sit on the caboose track.
pwdopd Moore, Ok.
3 all bay window and all athrean.
Geoff,
I agree with the above and I will add that a bunch of us that model modern roads have quite a variety due to mergers. Most recently for me Conrail on both NS and CSX. But you could also have a Chessie in old Seaboard territory or a NW in old Southern territory. Since caboose’s aren’t manufactured anymore most of the ones in service came from predessors. So unless they repaint you have quite a variety out there!
Oh yeah. A Santa Fe Athearn widevision caboose.
Ray and Dough, Thanks for the info. I’ll bore you with a little story. Over here we call cabooses Brake Vans and the ticket to join a local Sn3.5ft group modelling (brilliantly) local WAGR narrow gauge was a set of masters for a car or coach which was used to reproduce multiple wagons for all members. Neat idea. So I went to the local Rail Historical yard and photographed and measured a brake van, laboriously made up the RTV moulds from the masters I made, and went along to the group. My welcome was less than complete “there was only ever one of those brake vans made and used” I was told, “so there can really only ever be one on anyone’s layout at a time”. So I failed the test…my first ever big build was like your average caboose…well at the end of the train ! I never did get to join the group !
Mehlich, I think the plural of caboose is cabooses, like mooses or gooses??? Doggone it, Now I’m confuseded!!![%-)][D)]
An addition to my earlier post, The real reason th railroads got rid of cabooses: If you had a mess (southern for a lot) them and cabooses were like mooses then you would have a herd of them, if they were like gooses, then you would have gaggle of them. Do away with them and the probelm is solved!![:D][^]