Just got my brass 3rd Rail C&O caboose. What a beauty she is and will go perfectly with my Lionel Allegheny. Great weight to her and detail is incredible for a caboose.
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Cool. Thanks for posting the pictures. It looks great!
I am awaiting my 3rd Rail B&O woodsided caboose. It's on its way.
Very nice looking caboose. 3rd Rail makes some great cabooses and rolling stock in addition to their locomotives. I have the SP and UP brass cabooses and both are superb, just like your C&O.
Yeah they do make great cabooses. Very, very solid feel to them and tons of separately applied piping details. The wheels look awesome. I have one other caboose from them - the SP C30 caboose and that is amazing as well. Been waiting for a caboose to go along with my Allegheny for some time now. You guys will be very happy when you get them.
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That caboose is top shelf!
I would really like to see Scott (3rd Rail) increase their caboose to locomotive production ratio.
Maybe strive to have a caboose for every different road that they produce a locomotive.
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Does Sunset 3rd rail make brass 3 rail Santa Fe caboose ?
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Tiffany
Does Sunset 3rd rail make brass 3 rail Santa Fe caboose ?
Depends on what you mean by a Santa Fe caboose, whether you want an authentic Santa Fe prototype or just a really nice caboose painted Santa Fe. There are two 3rd Rail Santa Fe cabooses on the Bay right now, but neither is authentic to the Santa Fe. One is a UP woodside CA-1 and the other is an SP woodside C-30, both painted for Santa Fe. Both are beautiful cars (I have one of each painted for their prototype railroads) but not Santa Fe prototypes. I don't know why Sunset/3rd Rail paints cabooses for railroads that didn't have that particular caboose; as far as I know they don't do it with locomotives. I haven't seen an actual Santa Fe prototype modeled by 3rd Rail, but they might have done one in the past.
I'm sure some of the 2-rail only importers have made correct Santa Fe cabooses. In fact, I think Division Point is taking reservations on one now. 2-rail wheels will run on flat-topped 3-rail track such as Gargraves, but tend to give problems on tubular as the shallow flanges won't hang onto the rounded rails, especially running through switches. Wheels, trucks, and/or couplers can be replaced to adapt a 2-rail caboose to 3-rail, or you can do what I do and equip a transition car with a 3-rail coupler at one and and a Kadee or scale dummy at the other to couple up to the caboose.
I've been told that the MTH steel offset cupola caboose is based on a Santa Fe prototype (except of course for the ridiculous turn of the century trucks on most of the MTH cabooses).
You might want to e-mail Scott Mann at 3rd Rail and ask if they've made an authentic ATSF caboose.
