BN caboose ?

[trainjk]

I bought a BN wooden ho scale caboose thats painted green but I cant find any pics of a green one that have wood siding. Its a walthers model. Just wanting to find out if any were green before I weather it.

 

[DanRaitz]

Yes, the BN did have wood cabooses. They all came from the merged RR's. But, they were all gone by the mid-70's.

Dan

 

[nwdrummer379]

I find it unlikely that a wooden caboose would have survived into the Burlington Northern Era, but I'll let the BN guys chime in for certain.

-Jeff

 

[doct0rnic]

I think this picture is of a BN wood caboose although I have never seen one, it looks wood

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=76238&nseq=42

 

[doct0rnic]

here is another picture of wood caboose

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&h...tbnw=191&start=86&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:86

 

[doct0rnic]

and if you go to this site, and scroll down you will see another picture of a BN wooden caboose that was used in Canada

http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/2011/july11/july11shortlines.htm

 

[NP2626]

Doctronic's photo in Post #4 is of a BM caboose from the Great Northern collection, as are (I belive) the cabeeses in post #6. The BN caboose in Post #5 is a 24 footer from Norhern Pacific. Isn't this caboose exactly what a caboose should look like? excepting it should be mineral red with the N.P.'s Monad and have "Mainstreet of the Northwest" on it's side?

This one looks to have eather been sheeted in metal; or, sheathed with plywood, because as they came from the shops, they are sheathed in 2-3 inch vertical strips.

If this is a recent Walthers caboose it really is a Wabash issue (There is a detailing article in a recent Model Railroader about this very caboose). This caboose sorta looks like a Great Northern.

 

[trainjk]

Ok thanks everybody for your help. I ordered it not knowing it was a wooden caboose and I'm weathering most of my cars that I have but I'm still wondering if its worth it to do anything to this one if its not really something that BN would of had. I model mostly BNSF stuff but really like the old BN stuff too. If BN aquired it would it have been of the GN era and if so then I will look for pictures of that to start with.

 

[Rico]

That last caboose belongs to a friend of mine who is planning on rebuilding it someday.
We still haven't tarped over it yet!

 

[DanRaitz]

If you don't already have them. You might want to look into getting both, Robert C. Del Grosso's "Burlington Northern Caboose Book" and MPI's "Burlington Northern 1973 Annual". The '73 annual covers BN's cabooses from "M-Day" until late 1973.

Dan

 

[weekendrailroader]

Sure enough, the Burlington Northern had wooden cabooses. Here's a few photos of some ex-Northern Pacific cabooses showing the two types of wooden siding used.

BN (ex NP) caboose with wood siding: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1925686

BN (ex NP) caboose with plywood siding: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2514491

Is this the Walthers model you have?: http://midwestrailjunction.com/walthers932-27563woodcaboose4windowbn2pk.aspx

If so, that's an ex-CB&Q caboose. Here's a photo of the well-weathered prototype that appears to have been "white-lined" (Yes, the number of windows is different, but things like that often differ between prototypes and models): http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=764083

 

[Iron Horseman]

Sure enough, the Burlington Northern had wooden cabooses. ..., that's an ex-CB&Q caboose.

That is what I was going to say. Looks like in that photo the windows are 1/2 way raised behind the plastic.