bobber retirement project

That looks awesome ,  you did a great job. The kadee couplers keep it in perspective to its size. Thanks for sharing .  Nick T

Nice job and a unique piece you won't see on every RR.

Drat - now I've got to upgrade my custom bobber fleet (of 1) from plastic to brass.

Your bobber looks great - and brass just feels so good.

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60's Atlas plastic - but I did mount it on an old Walthers(?) brass or bronze truck.

Congratulations on the retirement, too!

Looks great! Who makes the kit?

Tom its just a mth bobber . as i said pop the cuplola. cover the roof with styreen and junk box or re purposed wooden freight car roof walks cut to fit.  the whole project takes only a couple hours. you can do it !! conrail john

John, 

  Now you have me looking for a cheap bobber to work on. The more I look at your project the more I want to try it. So what's your next retirement gig .  Nick T

Conrail John,congrats on your retirement and a great bash on the caboose.  I planned to do the same thing, and it looks like you beat me to it!  This one is to replicate a logging "crummy" I saw at Cass.  This week I finally had the time, and the victim was this MTH Erie bobber:

...which, like yours, had a cupola-ectomy, lettering removed, as well as a shortened smoke jack, and became this:

The Kadees on yours look much better - maybe I'll take the plunge and convert my logging flats.  Still, it looks great at the rear of my logging train.

At a show, l picked up a whole bag of plastic bobbers, now stored...l think they were early Atlas made in Austria?...l kit bashed a few .  There were a lot of brass Lackawanna bobbers in shows once, also, and l put Lionel couplers on one, and painted and relettered it.  A lot of Bob Peare, "Train Craft", bobber kits are found in those shows, and one suffered a bash in my hands.

John, great job on the bobber. It is amazing what you can find at a show and make into something special.......Paul

Great work all!!!!

Hi Everyone, 

Great to see some different cabooses on this forum site. There's a lot of talent that went into those Bobber's and just have to say that they look great. Would like to know if any of you fella's that put on scale couplers, still have the original couplers in your possession. I have an MTH Pennsylvania Bobber # 20-91350 that is missing the rear coupler and would like to purchase  one or both couplers so I can complete my project. The caboose will have a new name R.R. on it's side: Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) to go with my 0-6-0, B-6 switcher of the same name. My e-mail address is in my profile. Thanks!

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