De Bruin wrote:Very cool Dave, between the NW's arrestors and that nifty shorty caboose you clearly have it visually working well.
Let me know if you still want that F5 shell and chassis.
Pete
Yes. I can use it!
The cabeese...have three or so of these in 3-rail, another couple in 2-rail.
Five buck (or free) Walthers or A-N wood NYC cabeese (oh, Lord!) and looking at a photo (actually visited one or two of the real thing) to get a "feel' for it, and started cutting. Used a bench grinder to take the wood out from the underside of one end of the roof I cut. Bolsters, trucks and couplers and it's 2-rail again. There were a couple of versions, one with the "bathroom window", small, on one end past the cupola. Found those Lionel cupolas (never, ever saw a decent one from Walthers or A-N, brass with oddball wood roof stuck in, even had one or two cardstock cupolas) that worked just right. Still have a couple of cupolas still wrapped up for if I want to do it again. I have several Lionel cabeese (!) I started with...on a cabeese storage track...no money then....hand-painted with a brush and Floquil, decaled, wax paper for window glazing if I didn't have the window insert...ladders, toolboxes. They worked, but these are better!
Rare! Vintage! Collectible! I need an evilbait account!
