Raritan River/Lackawanna caboose

Have Malcolm, i.e. "Brother Love" make you the exact DL&W/Raritan River caboose you want. Visit the 2-Rail SCALE Forum to see Malcolm's spectacular work.

Hot Water posted:

Have Malcolm, i.e. "Brother Love" make you the exact DL&W/Raritan River caboose you want. Visit the 2-Rail SCALE Forum to see Malcolm's spectacular work.

That is one option. 

I think that a wood kit for this caboose was actually produced by Ambroid or Gloor Craft (or someone....) and that they are about; I may even have one somewhere in the mountainous project queue. Those specific trucks might be a challenge - the old Walther Sierra car trucks might pass cursory inspection.  That paint scheme is a more straightforward,

I agree with Hot Water, Brother Love is the way to go if your looking for a high quality custom model caboose.

How do I talk to this "Brother Love"? Price isn't quite a concern of mine. As long I think it's fair. 

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

How do I talk to this "Brother Love"? Price isn't quite a concern of mine. As long I think it's fair. 

Try the search function, and/or look for him on the 2-Rail SCALE Forum. I can't remember if he has his contact information in his "Forum Profile". You may have to post this caboose subject over on the 2-Rail SCALE Forum, and wait for him to contact you. Malcolm pretty much hangs out on the 2-Rail SCALE Forum.

Edit:  I just checked his "Forum Profile" and his eMail/contact information is posted there.

Thanks. What is his usual price if you could give a rough estimate?

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

Thanks. What is his usual price if you could give a rough estimate?

I would prefer to leave that up to Malcolm. Just remember that you get what you pay for, and his workmanship is truly unbelievable.

What I meant to say was what price should I be prepared to pay? I don't want to get into something and then not be prepared for the end result. At least the high 100's right? The highest I'd go is like 200. By that point I might as well go for a MTH caboose..

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

What I meant to say was what price should I be prepared to pay? I don't want to get into something and then not be prepared for the end result. At least the high 100's right? The highest I'd go is like 200.

Just my opinion but, you should set your budget higher for a TOTALLY ACCURATE DL&W wood caboose.

By that point I might as well go for a MTH caboose..

Again, just my opinion but, you will NOT find any MTH caboose models that CORRECTLY represent ANY DL&W cabooses, especially that wood version.

That's just the point. I'm not even in college yet and I don't have that kind of cash. 

I didn't say I'd make my own caboose out of an MTH. I meant the RRRR borrowed PRR cabooses from time to time. In the future if I get the money I will consider the Malcolm path.  But for now I ought to focus on either finding a caboose very close to the DL&W version or just getting the PRR caboose.

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

That's just the point. I'm not even in college yet and I don't have that kind of cash.  

Malcolm's work is not stuff that you can get on a budget or while you have to save for tuition payments.

I have to go look into my mountain of project boxes and see what's really in there; I know I picked up 3-4 wood caboose projects to do at the Indy show......another side door drover caboose to rebuild is on top of the pile and I found yet another one of those rough and unstarted in a box on Sun.

Yeah, ok thanks. For now I can't afford to get a realistic caboose but at the same time I'd rather spend the money for a custom steam locomotive. Could someone at least help me find a caboose that is close to the DL&W? 

Hello, I'm new here.

So, I'd suggest just buying a K-line caboose similar to the first photo shown and kitbashing it to look smiliar to one of these yellow Ex DL&W cabooses.

or, you could buy the 1989 Lionel RDG Caboose and decaying it to look similar to the RRRR 7. I would suggest buying the 1989 reading cabbies because it had the same red color and is lighted.

-John

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