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Post by VietnamVet1967 on Oct 20, 2023 4:35:04 GMT
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Post by keithb on Oct 20, 2023 9:04:50 GMT
Those are nice!
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Post by af3020 on Oct 20, 2023 18:18:19 GMT
If you are hooked on cabooses then you might want to consider Knapke's book. It is well written and as it says in the subtitle it covers the history, legend, and lore of the caboose. First person accounts of caboose life are very much in evidence as are stories of anything and everything connected with the caboose. I thought the book was an excellent read.  |
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Post by healey36 on Oct 21, 2023 9:36:14 GMT
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Post by af3020 on Oct 21, 2023 18:15:01 GMT
Here's a few more American Flyer   Bing  Fandor  KBN  Thomas Industries  |
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Post by Adam on Oct 21, 2023 18:49:04 GMT
Me too! I’ve added a couple of cabooses since this video.
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Post by atsda on Oct 23, 2023 16:56:11 GMT
VietnamVet67,
My favorite is the N5c porthole type. I have a post war Lionel PRR that I like to run mid-consist.
After wondering about whether any passenger trains ever used a caboose, I did a quick search to find that they did not. (I was not surprised.) However, there was some mention that the PRR and B&O did use them on express/ mail trains
AF3020 will likely have a definitive response .
Alfred
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Post by healey36 on Oct 23, 2023 17:56:39 GMT
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Post by dennym57 on Oct 24, 2023 12:39:23 GMT
I thought it was cabeese. 😁
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Post by Country Joe on Oct 24, 2023 14:58:33 GMT
I thought it was cabeese. 😁 Or maybe cabeeses?
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Post by Adam on Oct 24, 2023 15:11:08 GMT
I thought it was cabeese. 😁 Or maybe cabeeses? No no no, when it is more than one caboose, it’s called caboosen. Sort of like child/children or ox/oxen. |
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Post by Country Joe on Oct 24, 2023 15:22:28 GMT
No no no, when it is more than one caboose, it’s called caboosen. Sort of like child/children or ox/oxen. I have it on good authority  that this creature  Is a moose and it’s babies are meeces, and caboose rhymes with moose, cabeeses rhymes with meeces, therefore caboose and cabeeses are the correct terms.
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Post by Adam on Oct 24, 2023 19:49:08 GMT
True but caboose also rhymes with loose and loosen is plural for loose.
For example “Turn the bolt counter-clockwise to loosen it.”, which means that your make the bolt very (many/plural) loose.
And I checked the dictionary.
caboose (plural caboosen)
Noun
1. A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel
2. The last but neatest car typically found at the end of a freight train
And if you were right we would need to spell it “cabice”.
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Post by Country Joe on Oct 24, 2023 20:40:59 GMT
True but caboose also rhymes with loose and loosen is plural for loose. For example “Turn the bolt counter-clockwise to loosen it.”, which means that your make the bolt very (many/plural) loose. And I checked the dictionary. caboose (plural caboosen) Noun 1. A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel 2. The last but neatest car typically found at the end of a freight train And if you were right we would need to spell it “cabice”. That’s a pretty good argument, Adam, but I’ll take Curly over the dictionary every time. The only other authorities I respect are  and I don’t recall either of them ever weighing in on this subject, so I’m going with Curly as my master in this area.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Oct 24, 2023 21:09:10 GMT
Just say “Cabin Cars”.
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