Friday, March 1, 2013


The same year that I began my layout I started working on Erie RR equipment. It was hard to find prototypical HO Erie cabooses. I found my first Quality Craft caboose kit at a train show in Kingston NY. It is the finished caboose in the photo above. It is a wood kit with white metal castings. The company that made it is long out of business, so I got the idea from the Internet to use 2 part resin (Alumilite) to make casting of the metal parts and use styrene and other parts to make two scratch built copies. It was a stretch for me to model being new to the hobby. In the end they came out good. If I built them today, they would be better! Currently you can get kits of the same "Magor" Erie wood Caboose from JJL Models along with a "Dunmore" Caboose and soon a "Bay Window" model (these are nice resin kits!).  Aslo, yeoldhuffnpuff.com  sells an old "Silver Streak" wood kit of a older Erie "Box Car" Caboose. If you need decals, Prime Mover Decals makes Erie Caboose decals for HO.



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