river_eagle wrote: wgnrr wrote: Just don't call it a transfer caboose in front of a MP fan...Phil Yea, Dem's Fightin' Words Actually, any MoPac caboose numbered in the 11,000 series was considered for transfer service, reguardless of body style.The 12,000 series was for local service, andthe 13,000 series cabooses were "road" cabooses.What most people call MoPac transfer cabooses are the cabooses built in their carshopsbrasskitbashed plasticthis one would be a "transfer"
wgnrr wrote: Just don't call it a transfer caboose in front of a MP fan...Phil
Just don't call it a transfer caboose in front of a MP fan...
Phil
Yea, Dem's Fightin' Words
Actually, any MoPac caboose numbered in the 11,000 series was considered for transfer service, reguardless of body style.
The 12,000 series was for local service, and
the 13,000 series cabooses were "road" cabooses.
What most people call MoPac transfer cabooses are the cabooses built in their carshops
brass
kitbashed plastic
this one would be a "transfer"
Oh man thats a sweet lookin caboose
markpierce wrote:Here is a nice kit of an HO-scale transfer caboose, ala Missouri Pacific. http://www.railyardmodels.com/catalog/mopacsbwcaboose.html Mark
Here is a nice kit of an HO-scale transfer caboose, ala Missouri Pacific.
http://www.railyardmodels.com/catalog/mopacsbwcaboose.html
Mark
In conrail blue :D
Yes sir, conrail blue, I'm using a athearn BB bay window caboose base, and ends, the rest is styrene, and wire. Maybe I'll weather it, right now I finishing the handrails, i started the project on monday.
tjsingle
Enjoy it. Transfer cabeese are fun. I'Ve built two, one Track Cleaning Transfer Caboose, scratch built. The other was a flat car with a MOLOCO kit.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Hey guys,
I am building a conrail transfer caboose, a N11.
Pictures
first one
Tjsingle