Caboose

[ScaleCraft]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Built-U ... 4784640948

Seems like everybody has too many cabeese. I have a box full, more on a shelf, all given to me.

This one, way too much for something that is a glut on the market...opinion.

Hard to tell from the typically piXX poor EvilBait photos...is that an A-N cast center sill? There appears to be at least two axles of tinplate flanges there. Again, hard to tell for sure.

Poor whack on the frame. Frame bolsters have been moved. Never bothered to touch up the paint, either. Windows falling out, oh, well.

Most valuable bits are the Kadees. And I'd pitch them.

If you're looking for a scale representation, this ain't it. Cupola windows are wrong (two per side versus one), top of ladders wrong (rounded not squared), finding an actual photo of 410 is rough, but as a general rule, not a deep arch roof on cupola (that's more NP). Trucks are wrong, unless we can find a set of 410 photos.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...is that an A-N cast center sill?

No. It's wood.

There appears to be at least two axles of tinplate flanges there.

Nope. Old 2 rail wheelsets and Lobaugh trucks.

Poor whack on the frame. Frame bolsters have been moved.

Yeah, but an easy fix; 2 of my resin bolsters drilled & tapped and done; add back in the wood center sill bit to the K-D's

Never bothered to touch up the paint, either. Windows falling out, oh, well.

Can't be bothered dealing with that,

Most valuable bits are the Kadees. And I'd pitch them.

Steps & ladders......

But I have zero interest in another caboose - spent too much of the last 2 years building unfinished ones out and selling them all off although I did keep this one...............



...............so far,

[ScaleCraft]

I dunno. I had to save the photo, crop and blow it up. Sure looks like some of those flanges are a lot bigger than "scale". I looked closer at the model, thought maybe re-bash to NP, not worth it. Just start with a Walthers NYC caboose and a Lionel cupola, razor saw and paint.

[bob turner]

Doesn’t look that bad to me - Lobaugh arch bars in that condition are often $20 with $10 shipping these days. Construction looks all right. Let me look at my NP caboose - I shall e-mail you a photo and you can post it if you want.

Those flanges are typical prewar 2-Rail. Nobody had ever heard of .145 wheelsets and RP-25 back then. They are all I use.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Those flanges are typical prewar 2-Rail. Nobody had ever heard of .145 wheelsets and RP-25 back then. They are all I use.

Exactly.

[bob turner]

False alarm. Mine is a single window Soo Line.

[E7]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Built-Unknown-Mfg-Great-Northern-32-Shorty-Caboose-in-2-Rail/264784640948

Seems like everybody has too many cabeese.

No such word! The invention of some millennial Twit.

The plural of caboose is cabooses. Consult Mr. Webster if you doubt it! There are cabooses and cabin cars. Probably devised by the same idiot that said cursive is no longer needed, and doesn't know the difference between your and you're.

You can't have too many cabooses! Next thing you know we''ll be stuck with EOT devices!

[bob turner]

It is a joke. Like making a plural by adding an "i" at the end. I use the term.

But I agree about your and you're - that is usually ignorance, as is using an apostrophe for the plural s.
Have you noticed that movie and TV producers have swapped "I" and "me?" As in "this is a really good deal for Susan and I." Ouch!

[E7]

It is a joke. Like making a plural by adding an "i" at the end. I use the term.

It's not a joke if you get enough Idjits using it. If it becomes predominant, it soon becomes the accepted term. No thanks! Don't be caboozled!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Built-Unknown-Mfg-Great-Northern-32-Shorty-Caboose-in-2-Rail/264784640948

Seems like everybody has too many cabeese.

No such word! The invention of some millennial Twit.

No. Well before the birth of that generation; easily 50 years old. More than likely a creative cutesy term invented by the Editors of MR.

[ScaleCraft]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Built-Unknown-Mfg-Great-Northern-32-Shorty-Caboose-in-2-Rail/264784640948

Seems like everybody has too many cabeese.

No such word! The invention of some millennial Twit.

No. Well before the birth of that generation; easily 50 years old. More than likely a creative cutesy term invented by the Editors of MR.

Like "turnout"? Or "2-8+8-2"? I could probably drag more up, but I've spent all these years trying to forget.

Now, what's the proper term for multiple PC-12 Pilatus aircraft? Pilatuses or Pilatii? Or, when the eye-taleyans built an 8-cylinder engine, and worried about copyrights....so called it an 8-V, instead of a V-8?

And is my doorstop a Varney, General Models, All-Nation, or something newer?

Cabeese.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No such word! The invention of some millennial Twit.

No. Well before the birth of that generation; easily 50 years old. More than likely a creative cutesy term invented by the Editors of MR.

Like "turnout"? Or "2-8+8-2"? I could probably drag more up, but I've spent all these years trying to forget.

Now, what's the proper term for multiple PC-12 Pilatus aircraft? Pilatuses or Pilatii? Or, when the eye-taleyans built an 8-cylinder engine, and worried about copyrights....so called it an 8-V, instead of a V-8?

And is my doorstop a Varney, General Models, All-Nation, or something newer?

Cabeese.

Working on caring and failing miserably.............time to do something constructive and sort my socks.

[ScaleCraft]

.........time to do something constructive and sort my socks.

You've done that before. Practice makes..........so-so.

Anyway, using a Walthers wood and soft metal caboose, rarely a kit, usually some poorly assembled thing I grabbed at a show..tear it apart, use a photo to approximate dimensions, cut front end of walls out, cut roof, grind out underside of overhang to match, shorten floor and frame, obtain Lionel cupola, assemble, paint, decal, use either 3-rail Talgo trux ( now I'm in trouble..."trux") or 2-rail with appropriate coupler. And they can be swapped back and forth. Have, oh, two of them in 2-rail, three in 3-rail (see how that worked out?).

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.........time to do something constructive and sort my socks.

You've done that before. Practice makes..........so-so.

Bought more - wore the rest out. High magnetic fields....

[E7]

Working on caring and failing miserably.............time to do something constructive and sort my socks.

Working even harder to give a sh*t what you think!