In my effort to make sure I have a matching caboose for each railroad I have a locomotive for here are recent acquisitions.
This one is box stock....just as delivered. A nice MTH Conrail bay window.....
This is the D&RGW wide vision MTH that I bought a bit beat up. She had a broken roof walk and big scratches overall. She was also very dirty. I cleaned her up, fixed the roof walk and touched up paint. This caboose also needed grab irons on the cupola and sides.....I had a post showing grab iron material. Will look great behind my double headed SD-45 locomotives now......and my favorite....it was cheap!!!
This MTH offset cupola steel caboose was a real basket case. Ladders beat up, trucks were bent up with side frames angled out. Wheels were rusty and had that white crust on them, She was also missing grab irons and was very dirty. I rebuilt the trucks and clean up the wheels. New grab irons and fixed ladders. Smoke stack was missing too....made a new one from aluminum tube stock. Came out pretty nice runs like new.....and again....some work to get her in shape...but cheap!!
This caboose is just a repaint. A Lionel wood offset cupola. These cabooses are plentiful and cheap but I really like their look. Add to it they dis-assemble without tools and are just nice cabooses. Recently I bought a Williams brass scale Mikado in L&N paint. So she needed a caboose. And L&N has a sleepy back woods feeling to me so I figured a wood caboose would look good. Right or wrong it's my little world.....Caboose had tampo removed, primed with Dupli-color #1699. Then two coats of Tamiya red spray can. Dupli-color semi-gloss black for roof. I drew up the art work and printed the decals. She may get a light weathering but I like cabooses pretty clean.
Only a few cabooses to go and those I will more than likely do repaints as the few I need are rare and thus costly! I am moving onto vehicles I will need for the layout now! Thanks for looking!!!
Really great work. The colors just pop.