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