Greetings John,
Ahhhh, the Glorious C&S!!!!.
Two possibilities.
1. A reasonable C&S way car could be kit bashed from the Walthers wood caboose
that came out a couple of years ago. The body length needs to ne shortened but
the windows fall in almost the correct position.
I am using microscale C&S decals.
I have two on my list of incomplete modelling tasks at the moment.
2. If you are modelling the Joint Line, well you could always use an AT&SF way
car.
No, this is not heresay.
Lloyd Stagner told me that in the steam era, the way cars were assigned to
trains "chain gang style": the next train out took the next crummie (either C&S
or AT&SF) on the ready track.
Photographic evidence confirms this.
It will be great to hear if others have some good ideas.
Regards, Mark
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From: "railbass@comcast.net" <railbass@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 9:57:11 AM
Subject: [CBQ] C&S Caboose
Has anyone marketed an HO kit in wood or plastic for the C&S 10600-series wood
caboose? It was a very generic appearing caboose and lasted through the end of
steam in the late 1950s and even on the Leadville-Climax line until the 1960s.
I went to school in Fort Collins and remember seeing them in the yards through
the mid-1960s. This would make a very attractive model to use with C&S diesels
in the "blackbird" scheme. If a model has not been produced, it would seem
simple to kitbash a model from an existing wood or plastic model. I have a
number of C&S HO brass steam locomotives and several diesels for this era, and
it seems a shame not to have a good model at the other end of the consist.
- John Manion
Denver, CO
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