After looking at the D500 homemade loco built for the Southern San Luis Valley RR I wondered what something similar using a bobber caboose might look like, a few days work and I came up with this:
Interesting but no matter what it still looked too much like a bog standard bobber. So after some puzzling until my puzzler was sore, then I thought, what if I just turned the cupola 90 degrees, so out came the impliments of destruction, some extra works and I think it works alot better now:
The glue isnt even dry in these pics
The drive is an LGB trolley I got from OldSF, the sideframes are MDC and the rest is whatever I had laying around. Still needs to be weathered.
Strips added, I used a sheet of Micromark decal cut to size, then coated with a clear coat. Makes a big addition in making it look less caboosey and more locomotivey.
Have fun with your trains
Another nice job. Well done my friend.
Tom Trigg
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