Fireball Caboose???

[trainstamp]

Anyone know if the Western Maryland RR ever had a caboose with the fireball logo on it? Now that I have a good running WM 2-8-0 with the fireball on the tender it would be nice to have a matching caboose, if it was prototypical.
Richard in Vermont

[Joe Satnik]

Dear Richard,

http://www.octrr.org/CabooseMotel/pictures/westernmaryland1013.jpg

It's possible this is a non-prototypical post-retirement paint job, though. 

Bing or Google "Western Maryland Railroad caboose image" and see what shows up.     

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik 

[ABC]

Joe you are correct, during regular service they never had such a caboose.

[richg]

Dear Richard,

http://www.octrr.org/CabooseMotel/pictures/westernmaryland1013.jpg

It's possible this is a non-prototypical post-retirement paint job, though. 

Bing or Google "Western Maryland Railroad caboose image" and see what shows up.     

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik 

First thing I did was a Google search. Very interesting.

Rich

[ebtnut]

In steam days the WM cabooses were bright red with the Fast Freight "bulls-eye" round logo.  When the speed lettering came in, they went to an oxide red body color.  I think there may have been one or two speed-letter cabooses early on that were bright red for a short while.  Towards the end, they went to the red and white "circus" scheme. 

[Doneldon]

trainstamp-

I suppose you could put a firecracker in your caboose, wire it up to a DCC-controlled ignitier and have a real fireball.  But it might get a little hard on the pocketbook.

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[jbsmith]

trainstamp-

I suppose you could put a firecracker in your caboose, wire it up to a DCC-controlled ignitier and have a real fireball.  But it might get a little hard on the pocketbook.

                                                                                                                                                   -- D

Sounds like something Gomez Addams would heartily approve of!