Now I’m not sure anymore. I have the Menards caboose. I had a Lionel caboose of the same style. And I thought I had a K-Line caboose of the same style, but what I do have is the old Kusan mold. But no match to confirm.
So the Menards caboose is more closely related to the Lionel caboose. Without one to compare anymore, I can’t tell if the construction is identical or if the tooling was created independently.