Atlas 'Transfer' caboose with road names applied..

[Ntrainz1]

Factory PRR



Bob.

[wm3798]

Who remembers the N Scale mag article describing hacking up a Santa Fe caboose to build something resembling a center cupola Northeast style?  I did one for my fledgling WM fleet, long lost to the mists of time...  You needed two cars to get one, because the first thing you had to do was cut the two narrow SF cupolas together to make a reasonable facsimile of the wider Northeast variety...  It was serviceable, but that article, probably published in 85 or 86, came out not long before Lifelike introduced their reasonably good model of a WM prototype caboose...

Build it, and the manufacturers will follow...  The beat goes on...

Lee

[wm3798]

I scratched bashed a transfer style caboose using the SF car frame and steps, making the carbody out of Evergreen stock, with the salvaged car ends to provide the necessary end detail.  It held up for a long time, but ultimately got busted up during a move.  Maybe I'll build me a new one...  I was inspired to do that one by a car I stumbled across in the wild... working a local on the Winchester branch south of Martinsburg when Conrail was still running it, around 1983. 

Sadly the photos have evaporated...

Lee

[cjm413]

Who remembers the N Scale mag article describing hacking up a Santa Fe caboose to build something resembling a center cupola Northeast style?  I did one for my fledgling WM fleet, long lost to the mists of time...  You needed two cars to get one, because the first thing you had to do was cut the two narrow SF cupolas together to make a reasonable facsimile of the wider Northeast variety...  It was serviceable, but that article, probably published in 85 or 86, came out not long before Lifelike introduced their reasonably good model of a WM prototype caboose...

Build it, and the manufacturers will follow...  The beat goes on...

Lee

Underframe needs to be hacked up to get the correct truck spacing for an ATSF caboose