Speaking of the Industrial Rail caboose... Sorry about the poor photo. The caboose behind it is a Flyonel Milwaukee Road one. They compare quite well. All I did was to substitute some old Gilbert trucks.
Jerry
The IR caboose is better than the Lionel O27 SP style clone.(Humble opinion) It's soooo perfect for S, one has to wonder what Industrial Rail was thinking at the time. I've still got one floating around the basement somewhere, waiting to be scalified.
I've looked at the Lionel/Flyer SP style caboose with the thought of converting it to scale, but it's just a tad to clunky for my eye. Looks fine in a Flyer environment, though.(Again, humble opinion)
Rusty