A while back I was in a hobby shop and I saw a rtr model of a Texas Mexican Railroad bay window caboose. I think it was Athearn but am not sure. I did not buy it at the time because of budget constraints at the time. I went back latger looking for it but could not find it. I have looked at a lot of shops and train shows in the area and have not found it yet. If anyone in the ArklaTex has seen one, please speak up.
That's going to be hard to find because they probably didn't make a lot of them. Did you try to search for one at www.internethobbies.com or www.discounttrainsonline.com . I have 2 Texas Mexican 50' boxcars on my layout and they were the only Tex Mex anything i've ever found and purchased....chuck
I searched high and low and no one makes a caboose in a TEX MEX paint scheme. You might have to purchase an undecorated caboose, paint it, and slap some www.microscale decals.com on it .
Quote: "no one makes a caboose in a TEX MEX paint scheme. You might have to purchase an undecorated caboose, paint it, and slap some microscale decals.com on it ."
Tex Mex only had 3 bay window steel cabooses that I know of, and I think no one made it for them in a Tex Mex paint scheme. I understand they got surplus SP cabooses, undecorated them, painted them and then put decals or whatever on them-- but not necessarily Microscale.
I'm back into model RR after many, many years of being out. The Texas Mexican Railway cars is what brought me back, I recently bought a GP38-2 locomotive in Texas Mexican paint scheme.
As a boy I'd see these trains rumble by the house, and surprisingly all the tex mex rail equipment was graffiti free. They didnt get exposed to much of the urban taggers on the short 150 miles of the rural tex-mex line. its been about ten years or so since KCS bought the Tex Mex line, and they tapped into the Tex Mex rail near Corpus Christi, allowing the Tex Mex to expand up into the houston area. Its been ablut that long that I've seen any Tex Mex green and orange around these parts.
So now with my locomotive aquisition, I was looking for The Athearn Tex-mex caboose to compliment, but these are harder to find. I bought a Athearn 1285 unfinished bay window caboose kit that I'm gonna try to closely duplicate to the original, although it wont be exact as the decals are near impossible to find. It;'ll be close though. and maybe I'll combine the scheme of a few of the original Tex-mex cabooses to make a custom "inspired by" caboose.
Here are some of the pics I have to go by. I found these photos in a journal I purchased (The Journal of Texas Short Line Railroads):
This is the bay window caboose Athearn chose to replicate:
Here are some others: and my personal favorite the Texas Mexican MoPac caboose:
Here are some others:
and my personal favorite the Texas Mexican MoPac caboose:
What an interesting collection of cabooses. They also had some unusual locos, a GP28 and a low hood GP18 and an ex-Frisco torpedo tube GP35m. They remind me of the old Toledo, Peoria & Western as being one of those RRs that liked to buy one of everything. I have found some shots of what looks like some green PS1 boxcars and an older brown one in a very plain scheme, but I have not managed to find any other evidence of rolling stock aside from the later modern boxcars.
Regards, Ben