All, Can someone explain what the code 'LT.WT.48500 BHM. 10-78 (on caboose 01465)' on each side of a 1400 caboose means?
Light Weight 48,500 pounds LT.WT 48500 BurnHaM Shops October 1978 BHM. 10-78 Basically it means that unloaded the caboose weigh 48,500 Lbs. The last repaint/shopping date was Oct 1978.
Nice looking caboose. Usually N scale look a lot more crude but that one had me thinking it was HO at first! Sweet! Right now the only cabooses I own are 6 brass and 4 plastic. Overland: Steel 3 window (1 orange, 1 grande gold/silver single stripe, 1 unpainted) Rivited 3 window (1 orange, 1 unpainted) Division Point: Rivited 3 window (1 4-stripe) Plastic: Atlas wide vision orange x 2 Roundhouse black 3 window (stand-ins for rivited black type)
Thanks, Jim! The sides I had laser-cut are not rivet-sides, they are actually tiny holes that look like rivets. Laser rastering is an amazing thing! I have a batch of Trainworx brass side kits of more 01400's, but haven't started those yet.
Dear all, Check out next links to Jim Griffin's site. This is great 014xx caboose information for scratch builders! http://www.actionroad.net/DRGWLPD/MOW/FolioSheet-01470-Series.jpg http://www.actionroad.net/DRGWLPD/01423/DRGW-01423.htm In case you read this thread Jim, thank you for sharing!
Hi, Can anybody tell me what the color of the steps of a black 14xx caboose have? In the pictures I saw so far the look light gray, but could be aluminum color.
