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Post by jason29 on Apr 18, 2020 8:21:36 GMT -8
I just recently received my Chessie System ICC 1-18 baywindow caboose.
Superb detailing. Weighted very well, I'm currently working on a couple of old Athearn BB SW1200s and this caboose outweighs one lol. The market lights could be a smidgen brighter as you basically need complete darkness to see them,but I'm not that into night operations anyway. I did find one end floor platform had been dislodged, but nothing a couple drops of glue couldn't fix, obviously handling in the mail is the culprit.
I give this model a 10 out of 10.
Beautiful model.
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jun 8, 2020 12:22:45 GMT -8
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jun 21, 2020 8:20:39 GMT -8
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Post by el3625 on Jun 21, 2020 13:15:02 GMT -8
Where's the Erie Lackawanna cabooses? Still waiting!
Bruce
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Post by packer on Jun 25, 2020 12:49:25 GMT -8
Wonder if we’ll see a BN EV caboose this year?
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jul 17, 2020 5:50:55 GMT -8
Posting this here as I just stumbled upon this item on ebay. It's a 3D printed kit of an old style waycar by vendor "the-train-shop". Has anyone heard of this company before or purchased and finished one of these cabooses? I'll post a link as well as screenshots since auctions change and/or disappear over time. ebay link   |
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Post by jbilbrey on Sept 12, 2020 8:10:42 GMT -8
My CSX I-18 "shoving platform" came in the mail this last week. I initially was going pass on it until I realized I photographed the actual caboose one day 2005 while railfanning. Unfortunately, I only got one photo of it. At the time, I doubted that anyone was ever going release an I-18 caboose in plastic. And if they did, I doubted that the company would do a release with all the modern "upgrades" - the plated-over windows, patches in the paint, etc. It just goes to show how much the hobby has upgraded/progressed over the last decade or so. The prototype fidelity we used to only see in brass models are now available in plastic form. Sure, the $90 for a caboose seems a bit high, but a brass I-18 caboose would easily be $250 or more. |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Sept 23, 2020 3:34:09 GMT -8
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Post by sd40dash2 on Sept 24, 2020 11:59:20 GMT -8
Wonder if we’ll see a BN EV caboose this year? Not an EV but if the Walthers leak turns out to be true, that might be the most accurate plastic RTR BN van we've seen to date. |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Sept 25, 2020 13:23:53 GMT -8
Photo of just two of the many just-released Athearn Genesis ICC cabs. Thank you to Athearn for taking this on.  |
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Post by riogrande on Sept 25, 2020 13:29:11 GMT -8
I'm hoping Athearn announces the D&RGW ICC cabooses as well in the not too distant future. Not September it lokos like. Rumor has it they were asking questions about the 1975 built cabooses, which I would welcome. But I'm hoping they do the 1966/67 ICC cabooses with the taller cupolas as well.
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Nov 18, 2020 9:05:15 GMT -8
And the expected Walthers standard cupola International caboose has been announced. Labeled Wide-Vision caboose but the cupola doesn't protrude beyond the edge of the body. Two styles of cupola side windows. Road names: - Boston & Maine (two cupola side windows)
- Great Northern (centred cupola side window)
- Maine Central (centred cupola side window)
- Norfolk & Western (two cupola side windows)
- Norfolk Southern (two cupola side windows)
- Nirthern Pacific (centred cupola side window)
and an undec that apparently includes both styles of cupola side windows. www.walthers.com/search/advanced-reservation/y?q=WalthersMainline+international+caboose |
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Post by stevewagner on Nov 18, 2020 18:37:37 GMT -8
Re Colin 't Hart's post, for which I thank him, based on photos I found on the George Elwood's great rr-fallenflags.org site:
The only one of the cabeese Walthers announced that apparently had an extended vision cupola (as I think International Car Co. itself called it) is the single NP car, #1119. All others appear to have been built by International but are as Colin wrote.
The Boston & Maine buggies numbered 470 and 473 weren't nearly as long. International's bodies rode on frames from much older wood cabooses, so although they appeared at first glance to be the most modern road cabooses on the B&M they were quite quickly restricted to service within Massachusetts. I strongly suspect that the window arrangements of the models won't quite match those used by the other roads; it's tough to tell, because the renderings only show one side of the models. Too bad.
"Wide vision" was, I think, Athearn's term for extended vision cupola cabooses. As many participants on this forum know, Athearn's blue box models aren't long enough to replicate any full-sized cars except some also built on older frames for the Rock Island, and modelers you know more than I do have posted that the roof isn't right for the RI cars.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Nov 24, 2020 9:45:34 GMT -8
And the expected Walthers standard cupola International caboose has been announced. Labeled Wide-Vision caboose but the cupola doesn't protrude beyond the edge of the body. Two styles of cupola side windows. Road names: - Boston & Maine (two cupola side windows)
- Great Northern (centred cupola side window)
- Maine Central (centred cupola side window)
- Norfolk & Western (two cupola side windows)
- Norfolk Southern (two cupola side windows)
- Nirthern Pacific (centred cupola side window)
and an undec that apparently includes both styles of cupola side windows. www.walthers.com/search/advanced-reservation/y?q=WalthersMainline+international+cabooseThe GN car is accurate; don't know about any of the others. Well, except that the NP is not. (An update: none of the other cars are accurate. The NP is probably the closest. And the B&M the farthest off.) When mine show up someday, there's gonna be a lot of hole drilling--these should be quite nice. Ed |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Nov 26, 2020 14:18:33 GMT -8
No GN light blue scheme in this run? Or is that not accurate for this version?
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Post by edwardsutorik on Nov 26, 2020 16:11:10 GMT -8
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Jan 7, 2021 15:23:43 GMT -8
Walters flyer came today 1-7-21 and has a New Caboose on page 5.
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jan 7, 2021 15:31:37 GMT -8
^ Thanks. I really wish their marketing people understood that this new model has neither an "extended" nor a "wide vision" cupola. I can see that by the photos but the text is factually incorrect.
Despite this minor terminology issue, I am still glad the model is coming.
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Post by usmcnewdog on Jan 15, 2021 5:29:02 GMT -8
Cool thread, new to the forum and hunting B&O caboose! I wish spring depot would rerun theirs and get moving on the new ones! any update on them? their web site is lacking!
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 15, 2021 9:08:36 GMT -8
Walters flyer came today 1-7-21 and has a New Caboose on page 5. To be clear: That is the "GN" one we've been talking about. Ed |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 15, 2021 16:10:43 GMT -8
And a special prize to whoever finds a prototype for the Walthers caboose with the "different" cupola windows--the wide-spaced, instead of the centered ones like on the GN car.
And a summary of non-Athearn ICC cupola cabooses:
Walthers GN style--just discussed--GN
Walthers ? ? ? style--not yet discussed--?
Atlas wide cupola--Reading
Atlas not-wide cupola--no. made up by putting a narrow cupola on their wide cupola car. Double extra special prize (perhaps TWO weeks in Philadelphia) for proving me wrong on this!!
Old Athearn--Rock Island
AHM--I think just like the Athearn, but with different cupola windows, front and rear
Ed
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Jan 16, 2021 0:02:52 GMT -8
GN and N&W both had cupolas with "wide-spaced" side cupola windows. Whether or not the rest of the caboose is then correct will have to be researched!
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 16, 2021 8:26:15 GMT -8
I checked the Walthers N&W caboose with the prototype photos of that same number group, and the "rest of the caboose" does not match. The same holds for all the others Walthers is offering.
I am curious what, if anything, that version of the caboose does match. The GN one appears a perfect match, right down to the special GN end panel. How about the other version?
Ed
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Jan 16, 2021 9:53:15 GMT -8
I'd wager good money that none of the other versions are a match for anything, but just a case of Walthers trying to make the project profitable (like Atlas has done with their caboose all these years).
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 16, 2021 11:34:43 GMT -8
I'd wager good money that none of the other versions are a match for anything,... I tend to that opinion. Until someone demonstrates otherwise. Hence my post. Ed |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jan 16, 2021 13:30:44 GMT -8
Does anyone have the BN caboose book? I don't have easy access to mine right now but I could swear I saw something about the different cupola window arrangement in there.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 16, 2021 14:26:27 GMT -8
I've got it.
GN did have a caboose series VERY similar to the "wide-spaced" cupola window version. The only difference I can see is that those cars didn't have the overhanging roof. But, what's the point? They're already making a GN caboose--the other one. And its roof overhang is correct. Why have an almost-correct caboose when you can have a fully correct caboose?
NP, Q and SP&S didn't have cabooses that matched either of the two Walthers versions.
I didn't see any particular discussion of different cupola window arrangements. I thumbed through it several times. Mighta missed it though, so if you can offer guidance, I'll look again.
Ed
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Post by sd40dash2 on Jan 20, 2021 14:07:24 GMT -8
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 20, 2021 17:20:25 GMT -8
Thanks for posting this!
The step wells are awfully crude. Still, If you want a GN/BN caboose, it's pretty good. I've ordered the two GN (one to patch BN) and will likely get a green one if they do BN later. And I have in my little paws the collector's item detailing kit (there's nothing other than the bent wires).
Might be kitbash fodder.
Ed
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Post by ambluco on Jan 20, 2021 18:23:12 GMT -8
How about a 2021 thread?
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