Do you like trains? Cabooses?

[RugerHound]

Enjoy!

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[graygun]

I miss cabeese..plural form of caboose.

 

[bridgebuilder]

we have stayed there a couple times in the main lodge, it is very nice.
you better like trains as there is train yard there. they add an engine to the trains there for the push up and over the Rockies.

 

[Bob Wright]

Where did they get all that much snow for the photos?

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

Many years ago I bought some railroad cross ties for a flower bed for Nita. While there, the office was an old caboose. The owner told me he had another one and was going to set it up on a nearby lake. He had a brass bedstead and was going to paper it with dark red flocked wallpaper. He said he wanted it to look like an old "bordeaux." (His words.)

Bob Wright

 

[graygun]

I saw one today at the Texas Transportation Museum near the SA airport. They have a switcher that pulls a train for a short down-and-back ride,static displays and layouts in N,HO and G.

 

[whichwatch]

All depends on whose "caboose" I am looking at.

 

[Mobuck]

Interesting story about a caboose. In the early 70's our farm straddled the RR track. There were 3 coal trains per week on a somewhat random time schedule. I could normally make my rounds of checking cows(on horseback) before the tri-weekly came through on it's northbound leg. Well, one day I was late or they were early so the train and I got to the unmarked crossing at the same time. I waved at the guys in the engine and then just sat on my horse waiting for the 30 or so empty cars to pass but when the caboose came by, I noticed the brakeman or whatever he was sitting in the upper window SLEEPING. I couldn't resist and when he was even with me(only maybe 6-8' away since I was sitting on a tall horse), I yelled "Hello". He launched of his seat and tumbled to the floor which was about a 4' drop. The last I saw of him as the train went around the bend 100 yards up the track he was still on the back porch of the caboose shaking his fist and cussing me.

 

[FastEd]

I love the old steam driven engines if the 30s and 40s.
Been in several L&N cabooses. Granpa was a Railroad Man.

 

[graygun]

I was crazy about trains as a kid and remember seeing steam engines in the mid to late 50s.

 

[ProfessorWes]

Trains just don't look right without a caboose on the end.

 

[RugerHound]

Trains just don't look right without a caboose on the end.

You got that right! I loved watching trains as a kid just to see the caboose!

You may have heard of a C&W singer named Dick Curless... I nearly sold him a Cadillac Fleetwood in 1969 or thereabouts... He lived up the road from me about 8 miles in an old farmhouse that he bought and fixed up. He had a couple Cabooses (Cabeese?) on a siding that he had put down next to the The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad tracks where it crossed Outer Ohio Street. I always wanted to go see what he was doing with 'em, but never made it up there before I left Maine. Dick was a neat old character... Died way too young at 63 back in 1995. Dick had many Billboard hits over his career, and toured with Buck Owens back in his best years.

Every time I see a story about cabooses, I always think of Dick Curless...

RIP Dick...

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Where did they get all that much snow for the photos?

Bob Wright

Bob,
It is Essex, Montana, trust me they have a weeeeeeeeeeeeee bit. :wink: :wink: :wink: Been to Daughters house in Helena and they had more than I ever want to see. Snow = Cold not my thing.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I was crazy about trains as a kid and remember seeing steam engines in the mid to late 50s.

DAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH All American Kids were crazy about trains, cars, and planes in the 50s. Must be why there were so many hobby shops and we could build stuff. I could tell the time of day by the trains going by our house.

 

[m657]

My granny lived in a 2 room shack next to the tracks running thru Notus Idaho. There was a large fruit warehouse, and twice a day the loonnn-nn--nnn--n---ggggg steam locomotive would stop there. My bed was literally about 20' from the handle of the steam whistle.

Circa 1949ish, there were many nights I could hear the rails singing long before hearing the whistle far off warning of the Steam Beast heading towards town.

And the way they used to start from a dead stop, spinning the great drivers and lunging forward a few feet at a time, again & again to get the massive RR cars moving was an art form.

The haunting nuances of the Live Steam Whistle continue to chill & thrill in ways words can not express.

 

[gvan]

When I was kid the rail workers call the caboose a "crummy" for obvious reasons. Leaving crew never cleaned up for arriving crew.

 

[Freedomrocks]

Do we like Trains? Ahhhhh could be.

This is our O-gauge layout still in-work, which you are never really finished with.

 

[graygun]

I was involved in N gauge for about ten years...still have the items. I see a lot of BNSF stock when I drive to/into NM.

 

[Racer9]

Locally here in Titusville PA, they have a train ride for people, once or twice a year they bring in a steam locomotive to pull it. They have several retired cabooses (cabeese?) set up as motel rooms ready for rent.
Link http://octrr.org/