Caboose, side door question

Yes, but not very many, and most were/are brass models. What specific railroad prototype are you looking for? 

KATY

Mullet River Model works.  Advanced kit.

Didn't Hallmark make a Katy side door, or was that a T&P?  Used to see them on

the bay, but not lately....only Ives or somebody made an ancient three rail one,

with only an odd duck from MTH being available from the usual guilty parties....oh, there were some kits such as the Bob Peare Traincraft one, fairly common, and one out of Kansas City I have never been able to track down.

Oh, yes...I have two Mullet River side doors yet to build....

Contact Brother Love. He'll make one for you.

Some pictures of the brass frame work.  I used an NWSL Sensipress for the rivet detail.
Mullet River Caboose file  Click on the underlined phrase to access a slideshow.
Photobucket  file.   B&O Caboose with AB Brake detail Kit.  There are also special made side tool boxes.

The tool I used to bend the metal angles.  Etch lines make the bending relatively easy.

NWSL SensiPress.  I fabricated an aluminum clamp plate to hold the flat pieces on the Riveter table. The rivet locations are etched.  The Riveter Table will forward the piece to the next rivet location using a micrometer dial.

Best wishes with your project.
Mike.

Sunset 3rd Rail put out brass UP drover's cabeese with side doors on both sides a few years back.  Both UP caboose colors.

I have one by Max Gray and one by Bobbye Hall.  Photo is in the camera, awaiting computer load.

MTH made a woodside caboose that had a side door in both sides. It was a Philadelphia & Reading Railways caboose from a few years ago.

Lee Fritz

I kitbashed one MTH side door, the only one of theirs I was aware of...without it in

hand, not sure what all I did, but it involved moving the doors....it was a pain, because it was lighted, and that got in the way and had to be carefully moved around, also.

Left is Max, right is Hall:

I have the Hall one and Hall's other, ATSF, side doors, the Max looks familiar, but I don't think I have it, ...something else to hunt...

AHHHHRGH! I HAVE BEEN HO'ed AGAIN!!  Have spent more time on this Mullet

River caboose researching it and others, than building it.  And now I have more

side door caboose info that you were afraid to ask, because you couldn't care less.

There was a brass O scale Ajin CB&Q side door produced. (never seen one and this

is the first I had heard of it). For Downeasters to roll past potato warehouses and

drop off a bundle of burlap bags, the Bangor and Aroostook has a prototype side

door #C 42 sitting on a short stretch of rails displayed somewhere.  So these were not restricted to the prairie states (I thought MoPac had the monopoly on wild and varied combines, drovers, and side doors....looks like Burlington is no piker)  The Frisco, T&P

and many more also had versions.

Now to tears:  American Model Builder in St. Louis offers, in HO!!, ever' stinkin' side door I want a model of, plus two more nice to haves.  They offer an HO kit of the

MoPac drovers caboose that showed up catalogued in the briefly available 1940

Vandenboom O scale catalogue, the FEC/Great Western/assorted other roads, IC, 30' CB&Q, ATSF, and a MoPac similar to the drovers, side door caboose kits.  All half size,

of course.  (that ATSF was is in O scale brass, too)