Thirty days in the hole...

[doctorwayne]

Thanks to all for your very kind remarks.  

Steve, I believe that caboose may be one of the least-photographed pieces of equipment on the entire railroad.  

Here's an out-of-focus view of it trapped behind a CNR tender (the loco must've been in the shop for repairs) and the running gear for a DM&IR Yellowstone (perhaps the victim of a boiler explosion?).


Here it is, just plucked off the rear of an eastbound coal train, and headed, with one of the train's two replacement locos, for the opposite end of the same train, in preparation for the continuation of the trip, this time northbound.  (I have a feeling the LPC (conductor) may have trouble moving those markers to the "new" rear of the car.    Looks like a job for the 0-5-0.  





Edit:  Here are some more views - they weren't in photobucket, but I found them in a forgotten file on my computer.  (It's easy to see why they were "forgotten". )    

This is an earlier view from the "moving the caboose on the coal train" sequence.  The light loco is moving towards the camera on the passing track, and will pick the caboose off the rear of its train, while the road locos move the train over onto the passing track.  There were several trains involved in this sequence, and it may be posted somewhere on the Forum.:


And seen here passing the power plant at Lowbanks/Port Maitland:


And finally, what appears to be a rare photo of the other side of this particular car    :


The car is a slightly modified Athearn AT&SF-style steel caboose.  I plated-over a couple of the windows, added a Canadian-style smokejack, and some Cal-Scale markers, and modified the platform handrails with a couple of swoopy curves.  The balance of the handrails and grabirons are the cast-on ones, with a little paint to make them stand out.  The trucks are from Kadee, with leaf springs added (the coil springs are still in place, too, as they help to keep the phosphor bronze leaf springs in place.  This car will eventually be upgraded with better details when I get back to work on my caboose fleet, which, right now, is mostly a pile of styrene and a drawer full of trucks and couplers.  

Wayne