This thread grew fast...... A scratchbash B&O Wagontop: A B&O I-1 built from one off parts from a Fox Valley kit that didn't materialize: My JNJ I-12 Kit: And finally a pair built for Brian DeVries. Built to represent different service dates with different numbering on each side to replicate 4 cabooses on a one sided shelf railroad, depending on which side is facing the viewer.
Here are a few of mine. They include B&M narrow monitor types in B&M, MeC, and Sanford and Eastern. Also there is a B&M Laconia built 24 footer. The "widow-maker" (ATSF) doesn't belong here on the east coast but... I liked the looks of it! This B&A buggy is a bashed MT troop sleeper.
If one goose is a goose, and two gooses are geese, Is one caboose a caboose and two cabooses cabeese ?? DL&W "Keyser Valley" resin kit. Scratchbuilt D&H Stern ender.
Info on the UP fleet... Back row: cupols cabooses are Intermountain, bay window is Walthers. middle row: Kitbashed Bachmann widevision with Atlas underframe, Intermountain cupolas (one was actually the predassor kit Golden West models or something) But both were rescued from swap meets and needed alot of TLC.... front row: Both MTL. The yellow one has cuctom painted roof and steps.
LOL..That depends on which end of the bar you are standin at when the debate starts...lmao ! From Wikipedia.com There is some disagreement on what constitutes the proper plural form of the word "caboose." Similar words, like goose (pluralized as "geese"), and moose (pluralized as "moose," no change) point to the reason for the difficulty in coming to a consensus. The most common pluralization of caboose is "cabooses," with some arguing that this is incorrect, and, as with the word moose, it should stay the same in plural form—that is, "caboose" should represent one or many. A less-seriously used pluralization of the word is "cabeese," following the pluralization rule for the word goose, which is "geese." This particular form is almost universally used in an attempt at humor (as, presumably, is "cabice"). It was common for railroads to officially refer to cabooses as "cabin cars." .
Yes; this puppy is still serving in Havelock, Ontario..... That's my little engineer at age 2.5............. dang, those vans are big........... They use it for the local shunt to a Nepoline mine every day......
the Caboose of the OSL At one time I was calling my railroad the Oregon Short Line, and I still do. Well I was painting some power in John Deere Green & Yellow and some Cabooses too. I built some of my own cabooses by way of kitbashing, below you will see some of these Cabooses parked on the layout, with other that never got painted, and some I just collected because they already were short cabooses. I cut down a Bay windon and added an Extended Vision Cupola on the other end form the Bay window. These are just the cabooses I could get too, I have a fleet of SP and a few UP cabooses some were in my boxes of train stuff...
Here is an IM SP Caboose that I bought at the SP Convention in Bakersfield in September. When I learn weathering techniques, it will look a little different.
This thread and the military one have really lit a fire for me to finish some lingering projects off of my work bench!!!
