Large Scale Central

Bobbercab or Centerbob

Modeling
#1

After looking at the D500 homemade loco built for the Southern San Luis Valley RR I wondered what something similar using a bobber caboose might look like, a few days work and I came up with this:

Interesting but no matter what it still looked too much like a bog standard bobber. So after some puzzling until my puzzler was sore, then I thought, what if I just turned the cupola 90 degrees, so out came the impliments of destruction, some extra works and I think it works alot better now:

The glue isnt even dry in these pics

The drive is from an LGB Trolley, the sideframes are MDC and the rest is whatever I had laying around. Still needs to be weathered.

Dave dont worry, I still have lots of bits laying around.

#2

Vic, take two aspirin, drink plenty of water, and get lots of rest. Oh, and don’t forget to change your socks. :). That should cake care of the fever.

#3

Steve,

Are you saying he should have cake or take his socks off? :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Ummmm Supposed to be take. Stupid tablet.

#5

Steve Featherkile said:
Ummmm Supposed to be take. Stupid tablet.

Then stop taking Stupid Tablets, try a smart syrup instead. Steve make it sound like the dillusions are a bad thing…

:wink:

#6

Yeah, those voices come up with some great ideas, don’t they? :wink:

#7

Fantastic work Vic, I like it!! Glad to see the boxcab spirit coming back :smiley:

#8

Cool :slight_smile:

#9

Wow Vic! That’s disgusting. Pretty fantastic and if wasn’t for the fact I’ve seen a prototype that was close, I’d say ridiculous, Thanks for sharing, great work. Love those little mechanical pieces that were created in a shop, somewhere.

#10

Another bobber bites the dust…
Nice job! You were so right to turn that cuppola. It made it look so much better.
I should have done that with my caboose racer.

Do you care to race??

#11

Ric Golding said:

Wow Vic! That’s disgusting. Pretty fantastic and if wasn’t for the fact I’ve seen a prototype that was close, I’d say ridiculous, Thanks for sharing, great work. Love those little mechanical pieces that were created in a shop, somewhere.

I’d love to see that “prototype” Ric, this was my inspiration:

But as I didnt want to scratch everything but had a bobber body laying around…

I’ve also painted the ends solid black, it helps diminish the cabooseness of it. if I can find the right way to add diagonal yellow or silver warning striping I might do that as well.

:wink:

#12

Decal stripes?

#13

Vic,

That’s the one I was thinking of. Good inspiration.

#14

Vic, is that a chain drive on the prototype? As a kid, I would occasionally see a chain drive dump truck riding down the Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.

#15

Hmm got me thinking I have 11 spare new bright cabooses that need a little bashing…

Darn you vic!!!

:slight_smile:

#16

Caboose motel, or now, a fleet of critters?

#17

Gonna do a steam and diesel version to use up some cabooses

(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10308569_10203116133812114_2572640590713750772_n.jpg?oh=1d2b4c44b19464911587f40b0af8d995&oe=5505FD51)

#18

Dan yes the proto has chain drive from the transmission to the axle on one of the trucks. There’s also a chain drive from one truck to the other. Whether the trucks themselves were connected at both axles I cannot determine.

#19

Mark
:slight_smile:

#20

David Maynard said:

Decal stripes?

Yes, Micromark make 1/4" wide stripes. I’m going to see if my local train shop has them in stock, if not I’ll get them online.