Hallmark mixed train caboose

My kinda caboose, and mine is painted and decalled for my "home road", but no

interior in or planned, so I will follow your efforts.

I will add some bunks, stoves and seats; I may look to add interior lighting and track pickup if I can get myself organized--

Here is  a pic of mine. I painted it mineral brown for the mixed train service. They also painted some green for the few that were assigned to rider cars for the fast mail trains. I believe they were also upgraded with roller bearing trucks. I just painted the interior grey and left it. At some point I might add an interior.

did you glaze the windows?

beautiful paint job--

I used clear plastic for the windows, but didn't show up in the pics. The model is a hallmark/ajin which was imported at the same time as the drovers. The prototypes were converted from drover cars to handle baggage easier on branch lines, but the drover cars were used at times as way cars as well. Later in their careers, the drover cars were also used in ore service in for the copper mines in southern NM. Way cars on that branch could not have cupolas because they needed to pass through the rotary car dumper in Hurley. 

I am going to attempt cutting slide glass--- now how I will squeegee it I don't know...

Stay tuned!

The Clover House slide glass is super thin, easy to scribe and cut. Scribe very lightly and it will break clean. Scribe too hard and it will shatter, ask me how I know.

I attached mine with Microscale liquid decal film, it dries fast and clear.

Malcolm

Here's a larger Coach, Baggage and Caboose that I favor over the small one. This one is from Walthers.

These were modified coaches, smokers, etc. that were stripped down. No steam lines or diaphrams.

Thanks Malcolm!

what do you scribe with??? 

Happy New Year-=-

You can use a diamond tip scribe.

Martin---thanks!   I ordered one from micromark.

Looks like examples of both of these Hallmark cars have found good homes.  They

used to be fairly common in O scale shows, and I got one really cheap at an estate

auction.  The third O scale car in the Hallmark series is the Texas and Pacific

side door.  It used to be fairly common, too.  There is also a brass ATSF side door

seen, but I don't know who made/imported it.  A possible, similar, prototype for it was

sitting on its frame sheltering rattlesnakes outside the Rhyolite, Calif. (Death Valley) ghost town.  The few "recent" brass cabooses imported have NOT been cheap.

Pecos River did a run of most ATSF cabooses; Max Gray did the side door.    I have most of the PRB versions as well as a pair of MG side doors; they will all get detailed treatment, glazing, decals and interiors this year---yikes!

PRB verions to consider:

1930's wood

#4706 Peaked Roof

#4721 Clinchfield (also a similar model to ATSF)

#4711 KC brake

I don't have the 4711 with ab brake...

I sometimes wonder if eBay sellers watch these threads. I think he wants way too much for this (I think the price should be around $200-$225). You can check it out here.

Matt, that is way too high. I paid $150 for mine a year or two ago, and that was the extreme upper limit of what I would pay. I have seen them go for as low as $100 and as high as $175. Never higher. People can list their stuff for whatever they want but this is silly.

I saw that listing and choked--- I have seen them go for $110 to $225 in the past year.    McGarry has one for $299 with lights---    However, ya never know; watched a Yoder s-12 sell for $450 in Nov.  two weeks later one hit $1200....     I spoke to Rich and he was flummoxed as well.

PRB did not do a side door; Max Gray did those.    I speak to John regularly and he is doing well.  I believe Mullet Models does the cb&q model you are referring to.    I do not have any experience with their kits.

I am partial to brass, I like to paint, fiddle with the windows etc.