Michigan Central Caboose

NOt that I am aware of. You could take a K-line wood caboose- add MTH 64' passenger trucks to it and have a close proximity or...

Contact forum member "Brother Love" to scratchbuild you one out of styrene.

Ouch! Its what I was afraid of.

It was difficult enough to find those mega rare period correct MTH Michigan Central RR boxcars from eight years ago, but it looks like I'll have to settle with a early NYC woodside to complete the consist.

Thanks

Joe

Sure is a clean looking caboose, looks like it was just made when that picture was taken.

Whoa, that is nice. You may want to contact our fellow forum member who scratch builds cabeese at an amazing detailed level. His Name is Malcolm,(brotherlove) and he does some amazing work!

Right now he is having some surgery done but hopefully will be fit as a fiddle to make some more cabeese...

The Berks are fantastic engines. Modeling the B&A I'm in the same boat. Pretty easy to create your own. Won't be exact to the prototype but a good rendition. You can start with a Lionel 17600 caboose lettered for NYC. The lettering can be removed but you will need to  repaint. I stiffened the floor with some steel stock. Used Atlas trucks though not to prototypical and to modern. I added Tomar Lights by filling in the stock lantern holes and then re drilling. Some added grab irons and Kadee's. some paint and it was ready to letter. I use Clover House dry transfers. Very easy to apply. I checked their site and by buying a couple sets you can get the M.C.R.R. and the NYC Lines. The hard part will be the number. You may have to piece meal it for that exact no. .

 A little more expensive but you can find them. Williams made a brass NYC caboose with a lot  finer detail. You can adapt different trucks and they should be repositioned as they sit to far back. You will need to paint and re letter but in the end it will be nicer than the Lionel. I bought a Pennsy version for $75.00 dollars. On the workbench now. They are out there.

 Below is a pic of the Lionel. You can build one for under $100. 

 Dry transfers are available throgh www.cloverhouse.com

Thanks Dave but I'm pretty sure I don't have anywhere near the expertise to pull that off without making a mess. 

I'd be happy to settle for a NYC woodsided extension vision.

Joe  

MTH has offered a very handsome woodside scale caboose with a similar look and very

similar trucks - closer than those found on the Lionel caboose.

I have one that came in New Haven markings (I've changed that) and that you could

locate on the MTH website Product Locator. 20-91162 (I found it). $55.00 catalog.

Problems: 

- The MTH cupola is offset, but not as much. This would not be an awful relocation

project using a Zona saw, some styrene and some filler. Paint and decals (easy to get).

- the MTH piece has fewer, smaller windows - 3 per side, I believe. 

But, the MTH caboose really has this "look"; too bad the details aren't closer - but 

they aren't that far off, either. Wouldn't be a bad starter project, if this has not been your thing. 

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I got 2 of them cheap a few years ago, and now I've given myself an idea (I'm a NYC

guy, too). Darn.

Thanks for the tip. It may work.  I'll keep a look out for it.   In the meantime I dug up this old Lionel NYC caboose from the early 90's.   Color is a bit off from the boxcars.

Joe  

Thanks for posting this source.  I found so many dry-transfers that I'd like to get for projects.  I was most excited to find "Hocking Valley Ry" transfers for boxcars and "Eastern States".  These are items that I have hoped for in O.  For AM Hobbies, Atlas did two boxcars lettered Eastern States Farmers Exchange and two gondolas lettered Hocking Valley.  I have those, but look forward to getting these dry-transfers.