Like I don't have enough to do already, now this!

Looks like one I saw but this has no cupola...hmmmm

I think the Frisco had cabooses with a cupola PLUS bay windows.

Just can't imagine what the source car must have been for this crummy! Looks like a rebuilt boxcar, but seems too long (greater then 40') and too low. Mysterious. A marvelous weird-O rebuild: the Fort Worth & Denver rebuilt a WW II Army kitchen car, that was converted to a Baggage-Mail-Express car.......and then converted to a waycar! Good old frugal railroads!

 

I would love to have a caboose like this for my layout.   I have a short line that a home made caboose would work perfect on.  

How about this one?

Got it! Weaver troop sleeper conversion.

 

Good job!

 

Gunny

Wow talk about a flashback.As a kid I remember seeing bunkcars on sidings here in monroe n.c.There would be as many as 30 t0 40 of them.A long with flatcars and gons some were the outside steel braced type.I look back and think if only I had a camrea a took some pictures.

She's a beauty, Malcolm.

I can see why you would want to model her.

Ralph

One of the industries I have thought about for my layout, would be a small,

independent contract car shopper, whose specialty was rebuilding cabooses for

small roads.  That wold take up a lot of room and require its own yard, but it

would be an excuse for dozens of cabooses from dozens of roads to be on the

layout.

Yes, I already have one on my layout, just to justify the cabs. It is "The Caboose Track", same name as my caboose Facebook page. I built it similar to a small independent rail car repair facility in Whynot, MS.

Malcolm