Check out my Caboose!

Here we have a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha (Omaha Road) caboose. This car is a scratch built caboose I made using some dimensional information as well as photographs of several of the CMO cabooses found in many of my C&NW books.

The caboose has a complete interior based on Photos of similar cabooses on the C&NW.  I had a Walthers caboose frame and several detail parts that I collected to do this caboose from Walthers, Selley Custom Finishes,Cal-Scale, and Scale City Design.  There is a complete brake system on the underframe as well as air hoses, cutlevers, ladders, and brakewheels.  The paint is Floquil Caboose Redand the Decals here are made from Champion decalsI had in my inventory.  I used several photographs of these CMO cabooses to get the proper yellow paint applied.  This car will operate on my 3 rail layout.  I hope you like this caboose and we have more blogpics to come soon.  

Bill

Pennsylvania N5 caboose

Here we have a Pennsylvania N5 caboose with the post 1955 lettering and the Bendix Trainphone system antennas  that were prevalent on Pennsy equipment during the 1940's and 1950's.  This caboose began life as another broken model in the bottom of a box of trains found at a local train show.  After stripping the metal parts and painting them with primer, I began to rebuild the car to look like an upgraded N5 caboose.  This is one of the early Walthers kits and it was missing a few parts, which I was able to find online.  The end railings and details are hand fabricated from plastruct parts and brass wire. The caboose has Kadee couplers and Walthers swing motion caboose trucks similar to those found on some Pennsy cabooses.  The antenna system is a Cal-Scale kit with K&S brass wire for the remainder of the antenna line.  The remainder of the caboose was detailed with Selley Custom Finishes, Keil-Line, and Scale City Design parts. The paint is ScaleCoat and the decals are Champion.  A final coat of Testors Dullcoat finishes the car.  I model the C&NW and the Milwaukee Road, but I have a "soft" spot in my heart for the Pennsy having seen many of their trains coming into Louisville, Kentucky, as a teenager when my folks moved to Kentucky from Wisconsin.  
Hope you like the model.  
Happy Railroading  
Bill  

Pennsylvania X-33 Automobile Boxcar

Here we have a scratchbuilt Pennsylvania X-33 Automobile Boxcar in its as delivered paint scheme.  This car was built using parts from an old Crestline/Walthers boxcar kit the had been scavenged for parts.  I found this in a box of trains a bought and decided I could do the sides and underframe through scratchbuilding.  I found several great photographs of these cars and used them for my guide in building and lettering them.

The car has Kadee couplers, and Cal-scale, Keil-Line, Selley Custom Finishes, and Walthers ends and other parts to complete the car.  The underframe has a complete brake piping system along with the linkage.  The paint is Floquil and the decals are Champion.  I used a marking wheel on poster board to make the rivets for the sides.  The round roof was in the box of trains and I cut it to the proper length for this car as I did the underframe piece. I had a lot of fun with building this car and it was built to operate on my 2-rail layout.  Hope you like this one too.

Milwaukee Road Baggage

Here we have a model of a 1948 Milwaukee road streamlined baggage car.   This model is scratchbuilt from various materials such as wood brass, plastic, and cardstock.   The detailing parts are Keil-Line, Walthers, Selly Custom Finishes, and Cal-Scale.  It is painted in Floquil Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray with Decals from Champion.  This car will operate in my 3 rail version of the Copper Country Limited and will reflect the growing use of Milwaukee Road trains for handling storage mail as well as express shipments.  Hope you like this one too.