cabin
Cabooses...
Information
posted here is about my collection of model Chessie System cabooses or
cabeese. These little cars that have brought up the rear of the
train
for years are now a distant memory. However, in the Chessie Era
most
trains still had these cabins at their tails.
Chessie
System
cabins are unique in that each parent or predecessor railroad liked one
type of caboose, and basically stuck with it. The Baltimore &
Ohio (B&O) liked the "bay-window" caboose (althought they did have
some "wagon-tops", one transfer and one steel cupola type). The
Chesepeake & Ohio liked the
"wide-vision"
caboose (although thed did have one order of "bay-windows", some steel
cupolas and some
"Northeasts"
purchased from WM). The Western Maryland liked the "Northeast"
caboose.
Also, each
parent
road never painted all of their cabooses into the Chessie scheme.
So, throughout the Chessie Era (1972-1986) parent paint schemes were
still
prevelant. All blue B&O or C&O cabeese, and the rare
red,white,
& black or maroon WM cabin could be seen throughout the Chessie Era.
Finally,
the
Chessie System painted a series of cabeese from each of the parent
roads
into unique "Safety" paint schemes. The "safety" paint schemes
came
in a rainbow of colors, blue, red, green, yellow, white, orange, brown
and even purple. Chessie also painted six cabeese into a special
"Careful Car Handling" (CCH) scheme. These were all painted the
same
vermillion (orangish red) color with a CCH logo. One C23 caboose,
902884 was painted in 1985 in a one of a kind green paint job promoting
safety at the Cumberland Shops. This caboose is not part of the
"Safety" paint schemes done in the early 70's.
Below is a
table
of my Chessie System cabeese. There is a paragraph describing the
model under each picture. Click below on the number to see a
picture
of my model cabeese.
