Some one above mentions finding stuff they forgot they had...did that with the caboose kit I finished....finding a stash of Weaver couplers and several sets of
three rail caboose trucks and archbar trucks. I also found six or eight builtup junkbox cabooses picked up in shows over the years, all side door or combine. Maybe two are the Train Craft side doors, but one is certainly a kit I've never seen, with metal details like center steps, a side door that makes me wonder if it is the elusive kit from the 1940 Vandemboom catalog. Really a solid, hefty caboose, with lotsa details, but just one grade above painted with a brush in bright red, chipped and dirty over the years. Going to restore it to its prototype, which I am digging through books for a photo for. It has platforms on the ends but no overhead "porch roofs". Got in an order of milled wood caboose roof and scribed siding, for one I was going to start, but it looks like I
have been diverted for a while.
