Well, well, well, another damp and rainy day in Northern New Hampshire my MRRing Friends and brothers.
So far it looks like my outside work has been cancelled due too rain, it has become a train layout building day!!!
A few days ago I started an idea for an HO scene, I took 7 Cabooses from 6 different lines and placed 6 of them in a circle and have 1 in the center of the land as a rental office for The "Caboose Motor lodge", it is a place where one can rent a caboose instead of a motel room.
After I menthiond this some time back I received a reply giving me a link to an actual place that does this in Pa. I beleive it was, I did go to their site and check the look of this type motor court out not too copy but to get the feel of some type of order!
I have the tar roads in, the track running through the 30"X30" modual,
the cabooses on the lots and some greenery down.
All Cabooses will be track ready at all times, Temporary "Housing" on permanant foundations this way I can change the cabooses at anytime.
I then got the grass and scrub brush in but have a lot of detailing to accomplish today.
I hope everyone has some time for their trains today!
Happy Rails!....WWwwwwooooooHHHHhhhhh000OOOooo!!!
Jay
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I stayed at a "caboose motel" last week in Dunsmuir, CA. Here is an interior shot of an SP bay window caboose.
Nice, huh.
Mark
That caboose interior is wild and wonderful...very cool place to spend a few nights, the pic is nice , you look like you have found heaven in that pic!
Thanks for the replies, I will be traveling to a Caboose Park in Pa. to spend a few nights in one and I can't wait!
Happy Rails!
Glad the link helped.
looking forward to seeing pics of your project and of the caboose park that you'll be staying at!
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Thats right, It was Ozark that gave me all the help with the link!, sorry that I forgot who did this for me, I'm ashamed!!!
Here are a few pics of the park under construction.
I started with some more FREE styrofoam and set my plan in action.
I will have to paint a few coats of black for my hot top!
The Santa Fe caboose in the center is the rental office, this is the only caboose that will not be track ready at all times, I want to be able to use the cabooses if need be so I'm not securing them to the foundations.
Here we see some progress on one of the lots.
Another view of the land scaping.
An over view of the Caboose Motor court, almost done!
I still have a lot of greenery, pole wires and some signs to add but you can get the idea from the picks.
Again, I'm sorry Ozark, I normally don't forget things but I guess I've had a lot on my mind!
Thanks for checking out my pics guys, I'm now working on a 96" hand painted mural as my layout back drop.
I've been fortunate enough to have 4 days off per week for building my new layout.
Jess Red Horse of the busy bee Tribe!
Check out this caboose motel:
http://www.rrpark.com/
This is the one I stayed at last week. Beyond cabooses, it has several cabins, dining in old passenger cars, a three-truck Shay, snow plow, flanger, swimming pool, creek, swimming hole, camping sites, water tower, RR phone booth, and so on. It is at Dunsmuir, Ca, which has Amtrak service (Coast Starlight) in the "wee" hours of the night.
Here is the layout at the Railroad Park Resort in case you have not seen it. It is also on Google Maps but not too clear.
http://www.rrpark.com/pdf/cabins.pdf
Rich
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