2757X PRR Cabin Car Project

so YOU"RE the one that out bid me!!! (JK) I hadn't seen that, and probably woulda tried to get it if I had. 

I picked this one up at a show a few months ago, missing a truck, and had some green on the roof. Parts bin had a truck, and some brown primer made a close match for the Tuscan.

and while looking thru the box all of us have with the 20 dozen SP caboose shells with broken roofs, I cut some good corners off a few and made complete ones. I scrounged a lighted base for the first one, a piece of drinking straw for the top of the broken stack.

This is a N5C IC Cabin Car that was in a $20 bag of cars at a show.a trip to the paint shop reveled it's true identity....

and a $7  frame,missing the cabin but had both tool boxes bought at another show for the trucks. I had a cabin shell (broken corner of course)in the parts bin, and it got rebuilt and a trip to the paint shop.

I have to admit I like the red coupola over tuscan(brown ?) with the red window trim. Anyone else?

scott5011 posted:

I have to admit I like the red coupola over tuscan(brown ?) with the red window trim. Anyone else?

I did not want to bias anyone...I liked it, too. 

Tom 

The 2757 is probably my favorite Lionel caboose and I have  several.. just can't get enough of them

For fun, I have a couple of Walthers cabeese that need some work.  They need a complete rebuild though.

the red coupla goes with the red windows...why not?

That Crestline is a good looking PRR N5 model! a little closer to scale size. But I do like the 2757 and variants, I bought up a bunch of beaters to repaint in previous Yorks, one on line with the later PRR lettering and black roof.

Next will be an N8 made up from a couple of N5C beaters. (N5C is the porthole caboose, N8 was a little longer, with a slightly shorter cupola than the N5C, and square windows. MTH made a good model of it as well.

Jim

scott5011 posted:

I have to admit I like the red coupola over tuscan(brown ?) with the red window trim. Anyone else?

Was going to say the same. The red cupola and the red window trim look good.

Bob

I want to paint a 2757 up like this one