The true meaning behind my nickname
Oct 15, 2012 12:35:36 #
Oct 15, 2012 13:05:13 #
Also the "Red Caboose" rest. in Antioch, CA -
BW326 wrote:
Tell your fiancee that he needs to take you to "The Red Caboose" motel and restaurant in Pennsylvania, it has a 4 1/2 star rating and it's right next door to N.J.
http://www.redcaboosemotel.com/
http://www.redcaboosemotel.com/
Oct 15, 2012 14:28:38 #
caboose wrote:
Since I joined there have been three people who have asked me ...why caboose? I am 46 years old...have "played with trains" for 20 plus years...love 027 and O gauge trains but S and N ones are great too...the nostalgia of a caboose just intrigues me as you don't see them on trains too often any longer...However, as I stated to the three who asked...my fiance would probably give you another reason why for 20 years my nickname is caboose ;)
I kind of assumed the same thing that your fiance would say but your avatar doesn't indicate that. LOL
There was a woman on the news the other day that is obsessed with her caboose and implants. Boy did she ever run off the tracks with her caboose. Her caboose was larger than Grand Central Station.
Oct 15, 2012 15:53:38 #
Oct 15, 2012 18:32:02 #
I used to work in the railroad (C&O) and have actually road a caboose....more than once!
Oct 15, 2012 19:04:54 #
Wabbit
Loc: Arizona Desert
caboose wrote:
Since I joined there have been three people who have asked me ...why caboose? I am 46 years old...have "played with trains" for 20 plus years...love 027 and O gauge trains but S and N ones are great too...the nostalgia of a caboose just intrigues me as you don't see them on trains too often any longer...However, as I stated to the three who asked...my fiance would probably give you another reason why for 20 years my nickname is caboose ;)
Hey Doc ..... I'm rather looking forward to your fiance' explanation .....
Oct 15, 2012 19:13:03 #
caboose wrote:
Since I joined there have been three people who have asked me ...why caboose? I am 46 years old...have "played with trains" for 20 plus years...love 027 and O gauge trains but S and N ones are great too...the nostalgia of a caboose just intrigues me as you don't see them on trains too often any longer...However, as I stated to the three who asked...my fiance would probably give you another reason why for 20 years my nickname is caboose ;)
I love trains also. But the caboos is a has been. You dont look nothing like a has been.
Put out to pasture. Now they use E.O.T.s
Oct 15, 2012 21:53:55 #
Now you know a steamtrain/caboose lover would have covered the entire Eastern seaboard already...we have already stayed there a few times and LOVED it, except one summer when we had a tornado touch down in a tobacco farm only two miles away. The whole caboose was rocking and I had me and three kids in the teeny tiny bathrooms...scared the bejeebies out of me.
Oct 15, 2012 21:56:45 #
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Oct 15, 2012 22:45:24 #
As a old railroader, I'm betting she is the youngest of her siblings, the last is usually the caboose.
Oct 15, 2012 22:57:59 #
Bunko.T wrote:
This could be an interesting show & tell post about nick names. I've had Bunk since I was knee high to a grasshopper.
Not much of a story but there was a reason.How about some more???
Not much of a story but there was a reason.How about some more???
Ok, how's this - second of two *rowdy* boys, Mom used the "Whole Name" when I was bad - James Kenneth got shortened to James Ken to JK; but when the old wino rag-seller came by with his cart, and Mom tossed down some rags for him to wash & resell, he doffed his hat, and said, "Ol Jake thanks you kindly, ma'am", my nickname was set in stone !
Oct 16, 2012 00:45:33 #
caboose wrote:
Hal81 LOVE this pic!
If you stayed in the caboos motel than you would have gone to the toy train museum right next door, and went to the Pa railroad museum less than a mile away and road the old Strasburg steam train right across the street. And probley stopped in the choo choo barn right up the street. theres a lot of old railroad in Lancaster county. This past summer I photographed every caboos at the caboos motel. Ive posted them on here a few months ago. Tell me what one you stayed in and ill put it on for you. But then you most likly already have a photo of it. Sorry for rambling on but us train nuts like to talk about trains every chance we get. Cheers.
Oct 16, 2012 11:07:53 #
Oct 16, 2012 11:12:10 #
Ha181-You are right, I did the whole steam train ride, Choo Choo Barn, train museum, etc. while in Strasburg. I had visited this town when I was very young, maybe 12 or 13 and then to go back in my late 20's then again in my 30's and 40's...I've watched that simple town turned into a city that basically exploits the culture around it. No longer the quiet, sleepy, train town that it was.
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