Wow! I gotta build this caboose, very pretty!

Malcom, I totally agree with you, that's a great cab. You build that, ans probably sell

100 hundred of em!..................... Looks like they modified a box car, does the other have a sliding door?.....................................Brandy!

Wow, now that is something different. It looks like they cut up a box car and added a few things. With the work you do you should have no problem reproducing it.

 

If I'm not mistaken, that is a former Nickel Plate "war emergency" caboose, obviously made out of boxcars. I also believe that Overland Models produced a limited run of those, in O Scale, for the Nickel Plate Historical Society (I have one). 

That sure would make for a really neat build project, Malcolm!  It reminds me just a little bit of the one pictured below, probably due to the "boxcar" ends.  This one belongs to the Grafton & Upton Railroad, a local short line based here in the town where I live--Grafton, MA.  If I had your skills I would definitely take a shot at building one!!

 

 

I am sure you have a library of caboose books, but I went to mine as I had seen photos of other similar cars:  "The Railroad Caboose" by Wm. Knapke shows

a Detroit, Cairo, & Sandusky wooden #1 with "wooden bay windows on the side and

picture window verandas on each end".  Another, my favorite, is B-19 of the Mississippi

Central Natchez Route which has end doors and   sliding doors in the center of the car.  The Santa Fe made their cabooses with the seats on top from boxcars with corrugated,  but not verandaed, ends.  I can't quickly find my other caboose book, and a quick flip through the varied ones shown in the Mopac caboose book did not reveal any with these ends.

Malcolm, did you need some dreadnaught ends? I have some that might work.

Alan,

Let me look through my parts, but I may can use a set. Thank you, Malcolm

I still have your address. Would be happy to share them with you. Please let me know!

N&W Cab classes C13 and C14 are unique looking.  According to the N&W caboose book by Bowers and Brewer 57 (559343-559399) were fashioned by NKP from series 1000 box cars (except for one) from 1936 to 1944.  N&W acquired them in the 1964 merger.

 

 

 

Ron

WOW!  Beautiful, indeed!

This cab involves intricate detailing.

 

Ralph

Oh for sure!!! And if you are looking for a place to leave it my layout works ;-)

Cool project

Interesting! Just when you think you've heard of everything...

I searched for more info and found another similar conversion, even more odd looking:

Already mentioned in an earlier thread and on my build radar for sure. I have several photos of this one.