Finished One!Those SP cab forwards will soon have cabooses!

All right, Brother! I'm encouraged to see you are so quickly recovering and feeling up to these projects.

 

I really like what you've done so far in your SW rebuild. Fixed radiators, fan, end platforms, cab… I surrender!

 

More photos, please. Great job! 

I agree with Bob, we are all glad that you are back and moving along with your project. keep the photos coming!

 

Rich in NH

Worst case of Obsessive-Caboosive Disorder I've ever seen.

 

Dr. Rusty

Glad to see you're not letting cabin [car] fever set in, Malcolm. Don't overdo it. 

Hurray glad to see you are feeling better and back at it.

 

Glad to see your doing well.

Ralph

Glad your feeling better. Your project I cant wait to see it.

Holy super stupendous cabooses batman!

Malcolm you really know how to get back in the game quickly... wow!  I'm very happy to see you're doing well.

Malcolm,

Welcome back and you are doing the greatest type of recovery, that you do so well.

Ralph 

Hey guys,

I only get 4 hours to work today, the warden has spoken! Got to go to Dr. today too so he can check me out.

 

All I have to do today is apply glue and wait.

 

Thanks, Malcolm

 

Updated SP cab photo

 

New photos of added details

 

   I can hardly wait to get mine!

A few new pics as I retire for the day!

 

I've said before and I'll say it again. Malcolm, you are the Micelangelo of styrene. 

Looks great, Malcolm. Glad you're feeling better. The jigs you use are a great idea. I have found with my structures that measuring takes an enormous amount of time. I built a second model of my Merced house in 1/3 the time from using templates I made for the first model.

Welcome back Malcolm! Glad you are recovering quickly!

Thank you! More new pics and step jigs too!

 

WOW, you are the best!

Hi Malcolm,

 

I sent you a PM Friday.  Did you get it?

 

ChipR

Malcolm they are really taking shape, I do love your attention to detail...it really shows.  Clean lines and hand made...nothing is better.  Great work.

Thanks guys, more pics.

 

Beautiful, Malcolm,

This baby looks ready to run, without color and markings.

Ralph

Outstanding stuff as always.

 

Ok, but what are you going to do after you run out of cabooses to build????

One of those Espee cabeese needs to be numbered 6017, and be lettered Lionel Lines...   

Originally Posted by mwb:

Would you please share with us your rebuild of your far more accurate AtlasO SW? That was quite a teaser set of photos at the start of the discussion thread. Major parts of the die cast radiator area and fan intake are gone (as they must be) and the roof of the cab is no longer 5" thick scale armor plate.

 

Go, Brother!

Hello Malcolm,

 

I just returned home after great visit with Dave Minarik and Sam at his Mercer Junction Train Shoppe.  We spoke at length about our local railroads including the Union Railroad and the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad which Dave models.  He told me about the custom made Union Railroad unique "shorty" cabooses that you made for him several years ago.  He also said that you might still have a few unbuilt ones left.  If you do,  I would be interested in having a couple built for me.  Let me know when you have a chance either here on the forum or through my e-mail in my profile and we can discuss it further.

 

Thanks,

Nick

Dang Malcom, I forgot to mail you a deposit

Those new SP ca b forwards will soon have some cabooses.

 

Nice work as always Malcolm. Looks like your feeling well.

Ralph

Dr. Rusty,

 

Still ROFLMAO.

 

Larry

 

i didn't know the man was sick.

 

i guess its because i don't do scratch-building.

 

i'm glad he's better anyway.

 

rip track

 

(whenever i'm at a checkout counter and the clerk asks "how are you today?", i say "i'm feeling better", and the clerk usually asks, "were you ill?", then i say "no, i'm just feeling better anyway.")

 

Almost done.

sweet!!

I second that!   

I gotta ask--what is your method for cutting window openings?

 

(and, how would you handle windows with rounded corners, like that of a streamlined passenger car?)

 

---PCJ, weighing a couple of scratchbuilding projects for the near future (but much more recent equipment)

Whoa!

Nice! Will one of these go with an SP AC-9? I've been caboose- less for quite some time.

 

 

 

Which one is mine?

Yes, in fact those type of cabooses would have been found on any SP freight train, regardless of what type steam locomotive was at the headend.

The one that says "Southern Pacific" on the sides, and the one that's not mine.   

Well Malcolm said I could have pick of the litter

Tom, Thank you.

 

Doug, you are right, that is yours

 

Matt, yours is the one with a piece of masking tape that reads MM inside the roof.

 

JDaddy, I have another one not pictured. It is painted but no decals yet.

 

The window are cut with Xacto chisels.

 

I hope to dullcote them tomorrow but rain/high humidity is in the forecast......not good.

 

Malcolm

I have one finished (mine) so I could fiddle around with the bars inside cupola windows. Now that I have that figured out I will finish the rest tonight and tomorrow.

Malcolm

A few more with wind deflectors added.

Here they are guys (you know who you are). They are ready to ship except for wind deflectors which will be installed in the next hour.

They are pictured in 3R, 3RS, 2R.

 

Un believable; great craftsmanship.

Absolutely stunning Malcolm!  Opening one of these threads to see the final product is like Christmas morning.

Malcolm, you are the master of styrene. Great work and you make it look easy.

 

Pete

Malcolm, even during the healing process you are most prolific , simply amazing.

 

Maybe one day I'll throw you an offer to make an ACL Class M3/M4 caboose like one of these, 3-rail of course:

 

 

 

Quite the talent there sir...BZ to you!

Sweet, cant wait to get mine. I am very impressed Malcolm

Outstanding.

The pone with the little guys in it is the best one

Malcolm,

Again, BEAUTIFUL!!!
Ralph

Simply outstanding!!! 

I wish I had the coin...

right now I have to settle for one of these... I bought too much from the Lionel catalog this year.

 

 

WOW! These look great.

Malcolm's S.P. caboose is really something.

J. Daddy your Lionel Post War S.P. caboose is also a beauty, which has all of the bells and whistles:

1-A brown smoke stack;

2-Two ladders;

3-Interrior illumination;

4-Two brake wheels;

5-Two operating magnetic couplers;

6-Two tool boxes;

7-Freight car color and markings.

GREAT!!!!!

Ralph