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Having been wrong most of my life, I am used to it and function well, being wrong. I will submit and show photos the way you guys seem to want to see them. However, adding more lighting is not something I'm going to go crazy over.
This is #2 on the Peep River line. I bought it off Ebay and it was not very well built and still isn't a very good model; but, maybe better than it was. I believe it to be an old Silver Streak kit. I replaced the plastic wheels with metal ones, repainted and added a few details. Since it is four wheeler, I though it would work well for the logging line division of the Peep River.
No, it was a freelanced line's logo. I can't recall what it was.
Here is another view:
Sirfolalot, The paint is heavy because the car was painted when I got it, It's hard to say how many coats of paint have been painted onto that caboose. However many there where, makes the paint job look like it was put on with a mop. Who's to say, maybe the caboose is 50; or, more years old. If you look at the window mullens, you can see that the coats of paint have rounded the corners. there are glops of glue showing through the paint and the corner joints are sloppy. It really is piece of crap. Good thing I didn't pay much for it. I do think that it was a Silver Streak Kit. Silver Streaks Cupolas look very similar. In all likelihood it is not copied after any prototype.
Here is Peep River's Caboose #1. It is an MDC Roundhouse Drover caboose. I've always liked the design of MDC's Drover Caboose. This caboose is used to deliver miners and loggers to where they need to be.
Here is Peep Rivers Caboose #3, it is a Bachmann Bobber Caboose that was a former Union Pacific Caboose (Did Union Pacific actually own any Bobbers)? Again, I put metal wheel set on it, painted and weathered it and installed a guy in the cupola. I'm not sure if this is the one (I have a couple of Bobbers); but, one of them has a full interior. As built by Bachmann, this caboose's cupola had too many windows in it. I cut out the mullions on the cupola ends and filled them in. I think it makes the caboose look much better. Instead of painting the bobbers Tuscan; or, Box Car Red like my Northern Pacific cabooses, I chose to paint all of them Caboose Red, so they stand out from N.P. equipment. Like Iron Horseman, next to steam locomotives, cabeeses are my favorite piece of railroad equipment.
Here is Peep River's Caboose #5. This is the last caboose I'm going to show. This is a Mantua/Tyco Bobber and is exactly the same caboose that I got with my Tyco Train Set that I got in about 1960. I remember bringing this one out to the living room while watching TV, to just look at and admire. The Tyco Train Set came with an 0-4-0 saddle tank engine, a gondola, a yellow Katy box car and that Bobber caboose and of course the train was a Pennsylvania RR set (what else could it be)?
I don't know what else to talk about for this thread.
In a day or so, I will be kit bashing an Athearn Blue Box Caboose kit into a series 1150-1100 northern Pacific steel caboose. I'm considering documenting the build in the Locomotives and Rolling Stock Forum. I plan to take a bunch of photos of the process. Join me there and "heckle" the daylights out on me!
Mark From Minnie-Soda.
Over the next month; or, so I will be kit bashing an Athearn Blue Box cupola caboose, into a Northern Pacific 1050 to 1099 series steel caboose. This rendition will have a lower cupola than the one in the photograph, which is a 1000 to 1049. To begin the caboose in the photo, I purchased from the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, a copy of their series of Mainstreeter Magazines dealing with the N.P.'s iconic cabooses. This information is vital to the project! I think these magazines have drawings of all the cabooses used by the N.P. However, if you were to build along with this build thread, you would not need to purchase this magazine; so, you don't need to join the NPRHA; or, buy any copies of the Mainstreeter. Yes, the Athearn blue box kits are no longer available. However, they can be found at train shows and swap meets and on Ebay today, I found 14 of them for sale at prices of from $4.00; or, less, on up to $15.99 "Buy It Now". I would recommend getting an un-built kit. Or, if you are good at disassembly, maybe a built one would work for you. Possibly, you already have an un-built caboose to use, as these things where plentiful when the Athearn Blue Box Kits where available.
This will not be an exact scale copy of these N.P. Steel Cabooses; but, I think if you wanted to, you certainly could go all out. My philosophy on model railroading is: In HO Scale some details are to small to be seen at normal viewing distances; so, I don't waste my time reproducing them. Beyond removing the molded on grabs and other surface details and replacing with wire grabs; or, my best effort to reproduce the detail, I don't go much deeper.
I have a few small projects to complete before I can actually begin this one. So, it may be a few days before I can actually start this project.
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Dragging a light onto the railroad, just to take photos really does not appeal to me and like I said, for what I am doing in the thread is showing what I have, trying to make things look more real, might be interesting in the future; but, for now I will do the quick and dirty.
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NP2626
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I have a few more cabooses; but, the Northern Pacific equipment has been shown. Is there anything else you guys would like to see; or, have explained to you?
Iron Horseman
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Ah, I misinterpreted your statement to be that you associated sound with DCC. The wonders of having a "conversation" in just text.
Iron Horseman
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I like looking at the caboose. My favorite is, of course, the 26'. Probably the most ubiquitous piece of railroad equipment in the USA besides the steam locomotive.
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NP2626
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I will show the rest of my collection, then. I will show them on the track and from ground level as that is how people seem to think they should be shown.
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Having been wrong most of my life, I am used to it and function well, being wrong. I will submit and show photos the way you guys seem to want to see them. However, adding more lighting is not something I'm going to go crazy over.
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NP2626
Guest
This is #2 on the Peep River line. I bought it off Ebay and it was not very well built and still isn't a very good model; but, maybe better than it was. I believe it to be an old Silver Streak kit. I replaced the plastic wheels with metal ones, repainted and added a few details. Since it is four wheeler, I though it would work well for the logging line division of the Peep River.
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
That is the longest wheel based "bobber" I've ever seen. Is that an "old" NP logo under the PR?
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
OK .. I will comment. Very nice, well lit, good perspective photo.
From my perspective, that waycar is a six foot model ... that is, best viewed from six feet back!
I like the design and what YOU have done to it, however, your work is much better than that. It looks as if it were painted with a dirty mop, or it was just pulled out of the river. OTOH, maybe that is the way you want it to look - if so, I apologise.
I would have to rebuild it from the frame up - trying to salvage the grabs, roof, and cupola. I think you would be more happy with it.
From my perspective, that waycar is a six foot model ... that is, best viewed from six feet back!
I like the design and what YOU have done to it, however, your work is much better than that. It looks as if it were painted with a dirty mop, or it was just pulled out of the river. OTOH, maybe that is the way you want it to look - if so, I apologise.
I would have to rebuild it from the frame up - trying to salvage the grabs, roof, and cupola. I think you would be more happy with it.
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NP2626
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No, it was a freelanced line's logo. I can't recall what it was.
Here is another view:
Sirfolalot, The paint is heavy because the car was painted when I got it, It's hard to say how many coats of paint have been painted onto that caboose. However many there where, makes the paint job look like it was put on with a mop. Who's to say, maybe the caboose is 50; or, more years old. If you look at the window mullens, you can see that the coats of paint have rounded the corners. there are glops of glue showing through the paint and the corner joints are sloppy. It really is piece of crap. Good thing I didn't pay much for it. I do think that it was a Silver Streak Kit. Silver Streaks Cupolas look very similar. In all likelihood it is not copied after any prototype.
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Here is Peep River's Caboose #1. It is an MDC Roundhouse Drover caboose. I've always liked the design of MDC's Drover Caboose. This caboose is used to deliver miners and loggers to where they need to be.
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NP2626
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Here is Peep Rivers Caboose #3, it is a Bachmann Bobber Caboose that was a former Union Pacific Caboose (Did Union Pacific actually own any Bobbers)? Again, I put metal wheel set on it, painted and weathered it and installed a guy in the cupola. I'm not sure if this is the one (I have a couple of Bobbers); but, one of them has a full interior. As built by Bachmann, this caboose's cupola had too many windows in it. I cut out the mullions on the cupola ends and filled them in. I think it makes the caboose look much better. Instead of painting the bobbers Tuscan; or, Box Car Red like my Northern Pacific cabooses, I chose to paint all of them Caboose Red, so they stand out from N.P. equipment. Like Iron Horseman, next to steam locomotives, cabeeses are my favorite piece of railroad equipment.
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Here is Peep River's Caboose #5. This is the last caboose I'm going to show. This is a Mantua/Tyco Bobber and is exactly the same caboose that I got with my Tyco Train Set that I got in about 1960. I remember bringing this one out to the living room while watching TV, to just look at and admire. The Tyco Train Set came with an 0-4-0 saddle tank engine, a gondola, a yellow Katy box car and that Bobber caboose and of course the train was a Pennsylvania RR set (what else could it be)?
I don't know what else to talk about for this thread.
In a day or so, I will be kit bashing an Athearn Blue Box Caboose kit into a series 1150-1100 northern Pacific steel caboose. I'm considering documenting the build in the Locomotives and Rolling Stock Forum. I plan to take a bunch of photos of the process. Join me there and "heckle" the daylights out on me!
Mark From Minnie-Soda.
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Mark (from Minni Sota) cute - I like that.
Keep this thread alive - do your build here. Chet, Garry, Curt, Ken, Jim, and too many others to name keep their upgrades/construction going on their origional thread.
Keep this thread alive - do your build here. Chet, Garry, Curt, Ken, Jim, and too many others to name keep their upgrades/construction going on their origional thread.
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NP2626
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Sirfoldalot, O.K. that's what I will do.
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NP2626
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Over the next month; or, so I will be kit bashing an Athearn Blue Box cupola caboose, into a Northern Pacific 1050 to 1099 series steel caboose. This rendition will have a lower cupola than the one in the photograph, which is a 1000 to 1049. To begin the caboose in the photo, I purchased from the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, a copy of their series of Mainstreeter Magazines dealing with the N.P.'s iconic cabooses. This information is vital to the project! I think these magazines have drawings of all the cabooses used by the N.P. However, if you were to build along with this build thread, you would not need to purchase this magazine; so, you don't need to join the NPRHA; or, buy any copies of the Mainstreeter. Yes, the Athearn blue box kits are no longer available. However, they can be found at train shows and swap meets and on Ebay today, I found 14 of them for sale at prices of from $4.00; or, less, on up to $15.99 "Buy It Now". I would recommend getting an un-built kit. Or, if you are good at disassembly, maybe a built one would work for you. Possibly, you already have an un-built caboose to use, as these things where plentiful when the Athearn Blue Box Kits where available.
This will not be an exact scale copy of these N.P. Steel Cabooses; but, I think if you wanted to, you certainly could go all out. My philosophy on model railroading is: In HO Scale some details are to small to be seen at normal viewing distances; so, I don't waste my time reproducing them. Beyond removing the molded on grabs and other surface details and replacing with wire grabs; or, my best effort to reproduce the detail, I don't go much deeper.
I have a few small projects to complete before I can actually begin this one. So, it may be a few days before I can actually start this project.
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montanan
Whiskey Merchant
Nice looking cabooses. You have a whole herd of them. I am a fan of the drovers caboose also. I'll put one on the end of a local freight for non scheduled passenger service. I believe that is is an old Silver Streak kit. Have a couple of them.
Looking forward to see what you do with the blue box caboose. I altered one for my friends layout and lettered it for his railroad. Unfortunately he passed away years ago so I use it on my railroad.
Looking forward to see what you do with the blue box caboose. I altered one for my friends layout and lettered it for his railroad. Unfortunately he passed away years ago so I use it on my railroad.
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Chet, Your Drover's Caboose does sort of look like Silver Streak's Sierra Railroad's Drover's Caboose http://www.yeoldehuffnpuff.com/images/HO/ss sierra cab.jpg Or, it might be the only Drover's Caboose they don't have a link to and that is a C.B. & Q. Very nice and nicely weathered!
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