Caught this caboose on the UP ex Soo line going thru Dolton, IL on 10-19-09. Would love to see other pics people have taken, upload them on this forum.
It was once in DODX service, and painted in a solid flat black paint. The cheapo paint used wore off, and faded to such a point the caboose's true colors are clearly seen. I have 2 more shots, of the 01400-series cabeese from DODX service.
DRGW 01513 Heres a Picture of DRGW 01513 Before and After restorement in Early 2009. And i don't know if this counts..
DRGW 01513 is Used on the Colorado Springs Local. Classified as a Shoving Platform for long switching manuvers up the Old Rock Island Mainline to Roswell. They use it on every trip. Its awsome when we get a Pacthed DRGW unit to go with it.
Hooboy, it's nice to see that at least SOME of those handsome 'crummy's' are still around. I'll tell you that in HO, a decent Rio Grande steam-era caboose is as rare as hen's teeth, unless you want to go brass. Or kit-bash one of the Athearn ATSF models into a kinda-sorta. Walthers offers (or at least they used to) the classic Rio Grande wood caboose, but you have to do a lot of operating on the trucks (and the underside of the steps) to get it to run on anything less than a 42" radius. And unless you get the more expensive "Platinum" RTR model, installing those six million teeny-tiny grabs will drive you into the nut-house pretty quick. I've got one Platinum on the layout, and two others that I just gave up on. I think they're still in boxes, somewhere. Athearn/Roundhouse offers a 34' wood kinda-sorta Rio Grande caboose that at least passes the "3-foot rule" (looking at it from at least 3 feet away). But at least it has the grabs installed. And actually, it's kinda cute. I've got about 4 of them on my layout. Sure wish someone would come out with one of those handsome black steam-era steel cabooses, though. I mean, besides brass, LOL! Tom
first attempt scatchbuilding a caboose in Z-scale Tom, you mean this type of caboose? Meanwhile it is weathered and decals are improved. Notice that it is Z-scale.
