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Caboose builders?

Modeling Rolling stock
#1

The shop foreman of the Dirty and Dusty Railway wants to build a caboose. The layout is about 1930 so it needs to be wood-sided. Has anyone got any thoughts? It will be my first venture into building rolling stock.

#2

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#3
Doug Arnold said:
The shop foreman of the Dirty and Dusty Railway wants to build a caboose. The layout is about 1930 so it needs to be wood-sided. Has anyone got any thoughts? It will be my first venture into building rolling stock.
Doug, I think you should make it a work caboose and enter the challenge :D Challenge pimping aside, go to a train photo site and find a caboose you'd like to model from that era. Ralph
#4

I found this site some time ago and has some really neat rolling stock. I plan on building that snow plow. Here is the link

http://www.rbadesign.net/TERRAPIN/Rolling%20Stock.htm

#5
Andrè Schofield said:
Pardon me for pushing my own product on Bob's forum but... look at these.

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:wink:

#6

already contacted Bob am working on the banner ad.

#7
Andrè Schofield said:
already contacted Bob am working on the banner ad.
Oh cool... I was being my typical sarcastic self but it backfired in this instance! :)
#8

BOOM!
Was that an explosion I heard?
That train crew blew up the old caboose!

#9

I have the works drawings for a 1929 Point St Charles double-sheathed wood caboose - to a scale of 1inch to the foot. We use it to keep track of maintenance on the real thing - painted for Canadian National - located at Memory junction, Brighton Ontario, which was extensively rebuilt in the late 1990’s early 2000.

I can make a copy for you if this is any help - but it is Standard gauge.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#10
Doug Arnold said:
The shop foreman of the Dirty and Dusty Railway wants to build a caboose. The layout is about 1930 so it needs to be wood-sided. Has anyone got any thoughts? It will be my first venture into building rolling stock.
Doug, try the Colorado RR Museum Library, I obtained a set of plans for a RGS Caboose that I want to build. I would get a scale in the Propostion I'm building in, it makes thing much better.

Paul

#11

I used the floor and trucks from an old Bachmann boxcar to build a wood sheathed blind end side door caboose. Many prototype RR’s built cabooses from old boxcars. The idea can be used for any style caboose.

http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=12133

And here’s another scratch/bash for a logging caboose utilizing a flatcar and the body from a Bachmann bobber plus misc. other parts.
http://www.mylargescale.com/Community/ForumArchives/tabid/100/Default.aspx?TOPIC_ID=47554