Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Nice, those Erie cabooses! Didn't know about the War Bonds- scheme. If I ever finish my DL&W wood caboose kits, I'll buy this Erie kit - I think Erie Lackawanna Historical Society has them.
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
Here is my first attempt at a Juneco wood/metal kit. I made a few goofs when filing the steps, and I need to learn to do a better job painting the handrails (the paint on the handrails is a bit lumpy when you look at it up close). This was a swap meet purchase. It must have been pretty old because the dry transfer lettering didn't stick very well (and I managed to get one side crooked). I am still deciding on how to treat the windows. The interior will not be detailed.
No doubt some of you will be amazed to see a piece of my rolling stock that is actually painted!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Enjoying the photos! Thanks Everyone.
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William
D&H #35797
Greg,
Great photo, looks to be late1930's-early 50's ???
Here is what currently follows all the trains on the PB
Don,
Benefactor, Instigator, and Constructor
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Jerry
That is a real 35mm photo of Alabama hills, then blown up to a poster size 30 inch long print.
Bruce
D&H #35794
steamage Lone Pine Local
Lone Pine Local
Here's one I have, I don't have my AMB BN transfer caboose done yet. Seeing all of these is pretty enjoyable, nice work everyone!Happy 'Green' St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day !
That Southern Pacific shot above, looks like Bad Day At Black Rock.
Here's another vintage SP caboose.
Caboose for a cash-short, yet growing-traffic railroad:
Couple of Conrail's:
This is a caboose for my work train.......it started out as an undec.MDC kit I found a year or three ago at a train show in Timonium MD.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Until now, I've never had a Penn Central caboose operating on my layout A few months ago, I bought (on ebay) a Roundhouse Kit-Penn Central caboose. The description was "unassembled". The seller failed to mention that is was also "partially assembled". When I received it, the hack job was less than desirable. The body had glue fingerprints on it, the roof walk was crooked and the cupola didn't sit flush. On a positive note, the frame hadn't been touched.
A few weeks ago, my parents picked up some Penn Central rolling stock (5 for $20) at a train show. One of them was a Life Like Penn Central caboose. The body was in decent shape. Since it is an older model, it had horn hook couplers. I had planned on installing a draft box for a knuckle coupler.
Both sat in boxes until this weekend. As I was tinkering, I thought combine the two......With a little modification to the Life Like body, I was able to fit it onto the Roundhouse frame and install the rest of the parts. I also added Kadee #5 couplers and 33" Intermountain metal wheels.
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Thanks to all for sharing.
Here is an old favorite...
I have done some recent caboose building. I suffered from a shortage of working cabeese and a surplus of un built kits in the kit locker.
This was a Walther's R-T-R factory painted for the C&O. Although R-T-R, the wire grab irons were furnished loose, for the owner to apply. I jazzed it up with hand made cupola roof grabs, and a crew member inside the cupola keeping watch for hot boxes. All the windows are glazed. A rattle can of red auto primer did the body of the car, and I brush painted the grabs with Floquil Railbox yellow. It looks a lot like a number of B&M cabeese of with I have photo's, but it is not an exact match for any of them.
This is a Roundhouse kit in factory paint. It's fairly authentic, I have color photographs of this caboose with this road number. I added grabs on the cupola roof, but other wise it's pretty much stock.
This is another Roundhouse kit in factory paint. Shows the McGuinnis blue bird scheme that came in in the late 1950's. It's reasonably authentic, I have photographs of sister cabeese in this paint scheme.
This began life as a Roundhouse model of an IC side door caboose. I repainted and decaled for the B&M. Far as I can tell, this is a fantasy caboose, It has some of the flavor of the wood milk car conversions the B&M ran back in the WWII years, but it doesn't have end platforms and doesn't have the right number of windows. But I like it, and it will see some action on my B&M layout.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Here's to the hack!
-Stan