Bagaboose

[lock4244]

Baggage car, meet caboose:

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=17310

[nkalanaga]

The GN had a number of baggage or combine cars outfitted with conductor's desks, and then they had this thing, custom built for the Hutchinson Branch in MN:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=115128 35 pictures
taken in 1976, after it had been renumbered for the BN.

[delamaize]

Both are super weird, I love'em

[Puddington]

Whilest not a "baggage" car nor a "caboose" this little number rostered in the 50's and early 60's by the Canadian Pacific Railway certain qualifies on the "huh" scale like those.....



A CPR Telecommunications car used to inspect telegraph lines... originally a First Class coach built by the Crossen Car Co. of Cobourg, Ontario it was modified for this very specific and odd duty... I just had to model something very similar to it... (really should re-do the cupola)....



Odd ducks are fun.....

[Philip H]

The GN had a number of baggage or combine cars outfitted with conductor's desks, and then they had this thing, custom built for the Hutchinson Branch in MN:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=115128 35 pictures
taken in 1976, after it had been renumbered for the BN.

What the heck are those trucks?  And what did that start out as?  Looks to be about 65 feet long . . . .

[nkalanaga]

46ft 7.5 inches over the body, 56ft 7in over the end sills.  According to the Morning Sun Books "Color Guide", those are the "rarely seen" Locomotive Finishing Material Company express/caboose trucks.  It was rebuilt from GN 29956, an outside braced 50ft boxcar, in 1954. using the frame and trucks from the boxcar and most of a standard 30ft plywood caboose body, with a lot of plywood for the rest of the car.  It was used almost exclusively on the Hutchinson Branch, between Minneapolis and Hutchinson, MN, and was nicknamed the "Hutch Caboose".  The line originally had passenger service, but by the 50s this car was sufficient for the demand.  The BN ran it until 1982.

[lock4244]

I probably should have titled this in proper Canadian, as this is clearly a Vanoose 

[peteski]

Many European baggage cars had a cupola on the roof.

[nkalanaga]

Along the lines of the CPR car, but an actual baggage-coach-caboose, here is D&RGW #215:


There's also a side drawing of the car on the page, if you want to click on the picture.  That's the only online picture I could find of the prototype, but there are LOTS of models!  For standard gauge one could start with an Athearn Overland combine and add a cupola.

[cv_acr]

I probably should have titled this in proper Canadian, as this is clearly a Vanoose 

Since van = caboose, wouldn't that be "vanaggage"?

[pogopod]

Not a great shot, but the Hutch caboose made it into BN paint.

[nkalanaga]

I knew it got a BN number, and lasted about as long as cabooses in general on the BN, but hadn't seen a picture in BN paint.  rrpicturearchives.net has 31 pictures of it as BN 11272, but all are when it was still in GN paint.  One photographer noted that it received BN paint "years after" his 1974 picture was taken, but apparently he didn't take a picture of it!

I did find a better shot, though, on George Elwood's site.  Photo by Robert Hadlow, May 17, 1981:


It's also the other side of the car from your picture, handy if anyone wants to build a model of it in its later years.  It's the same side as the GN picture, showing the changes over the years.  In particular, note that it lost the end ladders and roofwalks, unlike the caboose it's coupled to.

[peteski]

Every time I see the subject line of this thread it looks to me like an American Indian word.  A car which carried teepees?

[delamaize]

ok, if someone happens to post a line drawing, I will no choice but to model it. something keeps drawing me back.....