While needing to search for a tender for the kitbashed loco I just finished, I turned to
the Mullet River C&S caboose that I had built from a kit. One of the instruction
omissions was that nothing was said after you assembled the three parts that made up the roof. I didn't think those loose parts would stay on in operation, so I glued the
three parts together, and found, as expected, that the rafters across the ceiling would
not all line up with the notches in the walls. So I trimmed the ends of the rafters so
roof lies flat. Before putting it back on, I painted a casting of a pot bellied stove, made
a pipe to reach the roofs smokejack, and installed it. The roof now fits tightly, held
on by springy metal ladders I installed rather than building those in the kit. I also
drilled a hole in one of the Lionel Vanderbilt tender's drawbars, to bring it closer to
the engine, and a wire from tender to drawbar came unsoldered, and was too short
to resolder without soldering an extender on that, which was done. Had gotten the
tender out to add decals, but no time for that.