Re: Freelance HOn3 Drovers' Caboose (pics)

Hello Martyn et al -

Here's a freelance Drover's Caboose that I built from a LaBelle kit almost forty years ago.  It was inspired by – but not based on – the waycar that once provided passenger service from Pagosa Junction (Gato) to Pagosa Springs:


Aside from not yet being painted the model is almost complete - the cupola windows are positionable and the baggage doors slide open & closed, but at the time it was under construction neither working "flip-over" seats nor overhead baggage racks were available as HO-scale brass castings or stampings from Kemtron or Cal-Scale (are they today?).


Another problem is that the brakes only work manually — when the brake wheel is turned with a toothpick or some such:


The air line seems to be clogged . . .    

- Russo

p.s. For photos of the K-27 that would have pulled this car if the once-planned Durango, Trout Lake & Telluride between Rockwood and Lizard Head Pass via Cascade Creek and under Sliderock Ridge had been completed, see [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net].



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2022 08:34PM by Russo Loco.