Could be.
…and that’s the answer of an iggerant man, my dad said.
tac
I designed it after the Sierra Railway Caboose #1.
I’ve got better pics of it in one of my books, plus drawings. I’ll have to find them and scan.
tac Foley said:
David - many of them were re-constituted boxcars of one kind or another, and instead of scrapping them or setting them afire to warm the railroadmen of a cold winter night, they made use of them instead. Makes sense when your railroad is down on its luck and dyin’ away.
If you look at the Mo-Pac you’ll see that some of their transfer cabeese are nothing more than a chicken coop on a flat car…leastways, they look like that.
The Hull-Oakes Lumber business in Dawson OR used to have its products collected from the class 1 at Corvallis, and because there was no Y or other way of effecting a turnaround, they used to back the lumber train all the way from Corvallis yard to the lumber yard, with a nice old Mo-Pac transfer caboose heading up…
It’s well-worth getting onto Youtube and looking at the H-O set-up, one of the very few STEAM-DRIVEN lumber yards left in the entire US of A.
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Live-steam Sawmill Boys
Tac, I understand that, I just wouldn’t want to be trying to board one of those things, especially if it was moving. In the history of the P&CS, I read that the first P&CS passenger car was a converted boxcar. I have not yet found any pictures of what it looked like, but it must have been an uncomfortable ride.
And tac’s comments that came with the email:
"I changed a very few minor details - using grab-irons on the cupola roof and ends like John did, and also sequins as washers on the door grabs, but apart from that, it’s the way that Phil designed it.
The build was very straightforward and whilst not a ‘shake-the-box’ job, it was one that you could do something and move on easily whilst it was setting or drying, or whatever, helped by the best instructions
I’ve seen in many years. Nothing was missing and I cannot recommend Phil’s kits highly enough - most of you know what they are like anyhow.
'snot a ‘real’ car, insofar as there is no prototype, but as a ‘what-if’ it’s pretty convincing, and has that ‘woody’ look about it that no amount of skilful design
can really achieve in plastic. After all, it IS made of wood!
Thanks, Phil and John, Stan for those beautiful decals and for the help with the picture posting from Ken - for all for the encouragement over the last week
and a half - and now, where’s my airbrush?"
Thanks, Ken!
Best to all over there, from us over here.
tac etc.
Ottawa Valley GRS
John Bouck said:
I designed it after the Sierra Railway Caboose #1.
I’ve got better pics of it in one of my books, plus drawings. I’ll have to find them and scan.
Wow, John! That is just SOOOO real-lookin’! Howja do them weeds like that?
On a serious note, I’d love to see a bigger image of that nad any others you might have - as I may have mentioned, I have more cabeese than a mutt has fleas, and a truly desprit need to make one look just like that…
Found an Aristo ‘Westside Lumber’ caboose at the bottom of the pile last week - looks to me far more like a Fn3 scale than anything else, and is therefore ripe for a conversion job to make it more ‘woody’ and decrepit.
I also have about 200 feet of miniature T&G to overlay those plasticy sides, too.
Heck, I feel another project coming on…
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Came out grrrrreat! Now you need to build more MOW’s of various ilks to put in front of it.
(I’m thinkin a derrick or pile driver.)
Just got out my pastels, half a dozen different shades of tan and grey for the car body, some burnished metal for the knuckles and some bottled age I had lying around.
The Good L*rd/GFO sprinkles it on my head while I’m asleep, so I know it works…
More pics coming when I’ve recovered from shifting this 40 tons of genuine 12" scale ballast for our ride-on railway. Right now it’s a good job my hands are on the end of my arms, 'cos they sure as h*ll couldn’t slip down any further.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Hmmm, just had another look at this USA Trains caboose [not AristoCraft] and it’s not quite Fn3. On the other paw, it DOES have lights in and out, and is a reasonable model, if a tad small.
I’ll be putting proper wooden end beams on it with cut levers [PNG], glad-hands [PNG] lots of bolts [PNG] and Ozark L-braces. I’ll also be removing the hook and loop things, and replacing them with AccuCraft items aty the correct height on the end beams. Lucky for me I have a spare set of AccuCraft trucks with pick-ups, although they are not proper caboose tyrucks with the extra springing - my conductor will have to tek his teeths out to avoid biting his tongue off.
A re-paint is also in the offing, this time as the Old Mill Lumber crummy…
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Do u still need the markers, i have some like those pictured by John B. That you are welcome to.
John, that is uncommonly kind of you to offer. However, John Bouck - up the page - has already shipped me a set.
On the other paw, if there is anything that is more likely to be found here in UK than in the USA, I am more than happy to reciprocate. As I’m sure you know, this place is a complete hot-bed of train stuff in all scales, particularly garden scales.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Very nice build Tac! I would be proud to have that rolling around my pike.
Thank you, Sir, for your kind words. It will look a lot worse shortly after I get some weathering done…
Phil did all the real hard work, all I did was sling it together more or less like he said to.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Thanks to John Bouck here - the mrkers have arroved just now! Pretty darn quick that, although I 'spose it depends on how many indians there are 'twixt him and me.
I’ll be installing them momentarily, but not posting pics outside s it hasn’t stopped pi- precipitating since saturday.
And to John Ramsden up there who offered me some more of the same - I guess I need them after all, Sir.
Anything I can do for you in revenge?
Best to all
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Marker Boys [Did you see that? A natty nautical play on words right there?]
Photo by Adolf Gutohriein from the book “Rails in the Mother Lode” by Adolf Hungry Wolf.
Side door caboose #1, Sierra Railway.
V. fine pic here, John. I, too, have that book - it’s on page 53, top and bottom and 54, top. Seems I was just too lazy to look…
I’ll write to Mr Wolf and ask permission to use it. If he is still with us…
EDIT - seems that Mr Hungrywolf [all one word now since 2012] is not only still with us, but younger than me. He lives in an old caboose, has no telephone, and checks his mail about once a month. However, my plan is unchanged, and I’ll write more in hope than in certainty.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Nice work Terry.!
Thanks, John - all that I did was sling it together with a few bits inside in case anybody gets near enough to look inside. When I get my airbrush back I’ll be dirtying it up a bit to take the shine of it, and making all the steps look used, like the pic on Phil’s site.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
That caboose turned out great! Nice work.
I’ll have to remember that idea of using sequins for washers.