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B&O
I-1 Added
4-17-22 This is Lake Junction Models wood kit. I bought it partially
assembled from Brooks Stover. Bob Hogan finished it for me in April 2022. It
is very unique looking compared to my other B&O cabooses
B&O
I-5 This B&O I-5 was
imported by Southwind Models in 1994. It is factory painted new and not
weathered at this point. I was
very
happy to see that it had the prototypical looking draft gear with a Kadee 802
coupler in it right out of the box!
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B&O
I-12
The B&O Wagontops are my favorite
Non-PRR Cabooses. I have 3 total including 1 that was a paint job for someone
else. I bought it back about 5 years later. They look great running behind my
EM-1 and other B&O power! This was my first attempt at putting the Kadee
802 coupler into a prototypical looking brass draft gear. This model came with
a nice draft gear castings and dummy brass couplers. If you wanted to put an
802 in it to run, you had to throw the whole dummy coupler and draft gear away.
I thought that to be a waste of a nice casting. I just got my Unimat so I put
it to work milling the draft gear casting out. I think it greatly added to the
model and helped set the standard for my future modeling. I also had to move
the steps outward slightly to clear the trucks. I added the step braces, cut
lever and hose chains, new cut levers, and additional window rain gutters. It
is a decal bash from many different sources.
B&O
I-12 C-2414
Added
2-21-23
Chessie
I-12
I used a Mainline Modeler article
on the Chessie I-12 as a detail reference to finish the B&O I-12. Looking
at the article made me decide what to do with the second I-12 I had to paint.
While I did NOT paint this model, I
did all the “modernization” detail work beforehand. Most of the work involved
changing window frames and adding the window “rock guards”.
Conrail
N-7 Bay Window Caboose
Added
9-7-20
I painted this for my friend Don Thompson. It was imported by
River Raisin in 1992 as a New York Central car. Apparently the real 21692 still
exists in tourist service painted as New York Central.
Conrail
N-20 Extended Vision Caboose
Added
12-14-19
This is a brass caboose made by Overland and imported by Modern
Models in 1987. There were various subversions. I also painted this for my
friend Don Thompson. It is a bit unique that the partial car number on the
cupola. Also note the Reading lineage of
car number 94106. I wondered where it
went for many years but became mine on 12-14-19. The last photo is comparing
the brass car to the plastic S Helper Service caboose. On 12-24-19 I opened it
up to replace some popped windows and saw I dated it as done on 6-28-96. Note
that Don made Reading 94106 years
later as S Helper Service.
Norfolk
Southern Cabooses
Added
3-25-20
When
going off into a new railroad followed I like to have a caboose matching to the
new locomotive. With Norfolk Southern that is a bit difficult. I saw the
modified Extended Vision cabooses last year on Facebook and asked if more could
be made. I later saw the bay window and added that to the project. These
actually exist as Norfolk Southern cabooses. They are modified S Helper Service
and American Models cars. Note the SHS car had the copula narrowed. The
American Models car had the roofwalk removed and all new end rails made. Killer
job!
Reading
Northeast Caboose Class NM
This is an
Overland Models Northeast caboose. I bought it in March 2009 as is to run with
my Reading I-10sa
and Reading Camelback
and possibly in some mixed PRSL service.
Added
5-30-14
Revised
11-26-17
Reading
Northeast Caboose Class NMn
This is also an Overland Models Northeast caboose. I painted it for
my friend Ken Davis in May 2014 as if it was mine, with a much more involved
paint job than he asked for of added draft gear and marker lights, hoping it
would come back to me at some point. It was a very involved 4 color paint job.
11-26-17 was the day it became mine as Ken divested his trains. We have been
friends since about 1991. Ken passed in May 2019. I am glad to have painted
this for him.
Reading
NMa Bobber Caboose
Added
5-16-20
This is a caboose built by Frank Titman. I do not know what
Frank used as a starting point or kit. It is completely unchanged as Frank
built it. I bought it in 2013 when Frank’s collection was sold.
Freelance
Bobber Caboose
Added
7-23-12
This is my Bobber Caboose I made in July 2012 for my logging
train. It is my first freelance project. Bobber cabooses are very rare in S
Scale.
Logging
Bobber Caboose
Added
10-3-17
Completely
3D designed and printed
Drovers
Caboose
On
April 30th 2013 there was an estate auction for John Bortz’s S Scale Empire. I called John the #2 God of S
Scale. I won this caboose at the auction.
I have wanted a Drovers caboose since I was 13 and first saw it in S
Gauge Herald. I don’t know if it actually exists anywhere on a real railroad.
It was built from an Old School wood kit and is such an odd looking car. I have been told it
was built by Frank Titman for his first layout. There is some portion of an
American Flyer baggage car (I think) hidden in the car someplace. Frank wrapped
a new car around the A F car. That is what I see when I turn it upside down.
There is NO chance I would buy a kit and assemble it myself so I jumped all
over it to win. I did some TLC to it by taking off the truck mounted couplers
and added my body mounted draft gear with Kadee couplers. I repainted the roof.
Added
4-19-17
S
Helper Service Cabooses
After
about 6 months of some rather obsessive eBay searching, sometimes 3-4 times a
day, a Conrail S Helper Service caboose finally appeared. I now have the 3 SHS
cabooses I want. My set is complete.
Added
10-12-18
The
Seaboard caboose got my attention so I now have 4 SHS cabooses. There was 2
numbers of each scheme. I THINK 1 of each is good enough!
Added
6-23-19
I
now have both Reading numbers
Y4
Scale Test Car
Since
the Scale Test car ran at the end of the train, I put it here.
This
was made by Southwind Models in the early 1990s.
Updated
2-21-23
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