Cool caboose. As much as my freelance railroad focuses on a gigantic transcon concept, I really like the short lines and Backwoods railroads.
Good one. I don’t think we ‘would’ have known that otherwise. I don’t want to splinter this thread into different grains, but I’m glad you nailed that down.
( okay, I’ll stop now. I’m starting to annoy myself.)
I can’t keep up with everybody or what threads I’ve told, but we are in the middle of trying to clear out one house so we can move in and sell our house. Shooting for the 1st of August. I’m going to be pretty much a ghost probably until September. I log on abd try to keep up with what’s going on but I have not been very active for a while. Sorry.
That said, as I’m rooting around trying to get my chaotic model area ready to move, I’ve run across several caboose projects in various stages of completion. I even found an old Suydam wood and cast metal set for detailing an interior. I’m sure there are better sets out there these days but I intend to use it. 
I’m just come across this thread. I’m developing a small O scale shunting layout that primarily features a RIP track so I can run all sorts of rolling stock through for a quick repair. Along the back of the layout are two sidings to hold private passenger cars and one to hold (aka display) privately owned caboosez. I figured if people can have private’s passenger coaches some can also have a private caboose. It’s my model world and I make the rules. 
And the reality is that there are a lot of cabooses in private hands today so you are not off the mark.
I personally know of three just here in Central Kentucky. One a he-shed retreat on a farm, another part of an antique shop and again another as part of a family resturant.
Thats not counting the several in local RR Museums on public display.
Correction: two more being used as Tourist Centers, One in Midway and one in Stanton, Kentucky.
Midway Visitor’s Center
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Another reason to model an older era. The end of train device took away one of the more interesting aspects of trains.
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I collected several photos and information of this modern government escort caboose with the idea of making a model of it until I realised it is the length of a full sized passenger coach.
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Okay, I’ve got to ask - what are they escorting that needs so much space? It’s a lot of effort to build, compared to just recycling an existing coach!
A friend of mine used to do similar WWII duty guarding/escorting LST sub-assemblies to the West Coast. Except his accommodations were a boxcar with a pot belly stove in the middle of it and Army Cots.
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This looks like an active shoving platform.
BN10715, I’m going to look this up to confirm
edit: RailPictures.Net Photo: BN 10715 Burlington Northern Railroad Caboose at Saginaw, Texas by Mark MacDougall
Appears to be the other side
I must have been in the sleeper because this thread just kept rolling by
It almost looks as if it’s behind the same two tankers as it was in 2019.
Yes almost. It’s probably contracted to the same assignment since ~2019
Seen in Branson, MO on the way to the Keeter Center for lunch today.
Next up: More fall foliage as we wend our way down through Arkansas. Train spotting will continue…
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