Scratch-built Sundays
This was an old All-Nation kit that was in rough shape. The cupola was missing and the trucks were incorrect for the 36 foot C&NW cabooses that came later in the C&NW history. I used Keil-Line bay windows as well as Selley Custom Finishes, Cal-Scale, and some Walthers parts to update the caboose. I mounted KTM caboose trucks under it to more closely resemble the correct trucks for this caboose. It has a combination of Champion and Microscale decals and is finished in Flo-Quil caboose red paint. It has full underframe detail using Plastruct and K&S brass parts for details.
This is a model of a very early Clinton. Iowa shops rebuild from 1957. It has Pecos River Brass trucks, All-Nation sides and ends, Selley Custom Finishes, Cal-Scale, and Keil-Line detail parts as well as Selley Hi-Rail couplers. I scratch-built several of the details such as cut levers, brake linkage and air lines, roof catwalks, underframe details Plastruct structural pieces, K&S brass parts, and Microscale O gauge decals. SInce I am modeling 1958 through 1960 on both the C&NW as well as the Milwaukee Road, I felt this car would fit in nicely to my layout.
This is a model of the 1953 order GB&W made to update their cars for the paper trade out of Green Bay and Wisconsin Rapids. These cars were often spotted in C&NW freights around Wisconsin and Michigan moving paper products to other parts of the country. These cars remained on the GB&W into the early 1970's. This one is another All-Nation Boxcar which has been customized with additional detailing using Selley Custom Finishes, Keil-Line, and Cal-Scale parts. In addition there is Plastruct and K&S Brass used to create the underfame details and other detailing. Having grown up I saw a lot of the GB&W trains.
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