The link below is C&S # 1009, 4 wheel caboose.
It appears to be a ‘Bobber’ type with the Cupola slid to one end.
Does it have a style/type ‘name’ other than Bobber??
Does anyone make this style of caboose in HO, (regardless of which road)?
I have only so far been able to find 4 wheel cabooses with a central Cupola.
http://cencalrails.railfan.net/c&s1009mk.jpg
Tanked
Bobber implies a 4 wheel caboose, cupola position doesn’t matter.
or lack thereof.
Mark
Thank You,
Very interesting, thanks for sharing the info.
Very sharp B&W photo - what caught my eye after the caboose is the Loco, & in particular the engine driver standing in front of an open door on the RHS when looking towards the back of the Loco. Didn’t realize there was an opening door there
Is it a 4-6-0 & what railroad?? .
Tanked
Thank You.
Only model one I could find on a quick search was a “Large Scale” one by Heartland Locomotive Works. Ye Olde Huff N Puff makes a bobber caboose craftsman’s kit that wouldn’t be too hard to kitbash into something like the C&S caboose…or kitbash one of the plastic bobbers out there.
Note that the caboose in your pic appears to be a 3’ narrow gauge car, not a standard gauge one. So you’d need to search for an HOn3 caboose.
FWIW my state, Minnesota, outlawed bobber cabooses 100 years ago.
Why was that??
Tanked
Bobbers, which usually had a wood frame due to their age, were deemed to be unsafe for the crew if the engine was shoving against them. That is why some states outlawed them.
That B&W photos is wonderful - presumably a large format glass negative. What detail! And note, contrary to a recent thread on these forums, that the nail lines are quite visible from a distance.
The famous D&H caboose was the subject of a union-sponsored model contest decades ago (the union was formed in a meeting in that very caboose) and MR published a thorough article and set of plans in the October 1965 issue. Well worth seeking out.
Dave Nelson
Dave
I think I can see the top of an obscured chimney at the front of the Bobber cupola, or did this style not have them?
For the Bobbers that had them I assume the chimney was venting something like a pot belly stove? - which leads to the query given a lot of the Bobber was wood - did they have many go up in flames??
Tanked
There were quite a few states that outlawed wood frame cabins before pushers. Pushers had to be cut in before the cabin or any other wood frame car carrying people. Even some steel framed cabins had the big collision posts used in pusher country.
Pete