Hi everyone , I am pleased to announce our first N scale kit. It should be available for sale on our website mid June, but I thought I would share some photos of the 3D printed prototype before I send it off to the Resin Caster. This model was commissioned by a member at my local club. This will be an As Built version of the Caboose as it ran on the CBQ. The modeler will need to provide Trucks (bolster holes measure to Atlas Caboose trucks), Couplers (holes are pre-drilled for Micro-Trains 1015 couplers), paint, and Decals. I will include clear styrene sheet precut for the windows. We will have two Burlington Northern Versions and an Montana Rail Link version coming later. We do offer services to complete the model and make it ready-to-run for anyone not wanting to do the work themselves, and we can provide a quote for that. Here is a link to our Flickr album for the project: https://www.flickr.com/photos/149211622@N07/albums/72157683857568456 Our company offers model kit design services at competitive prices, if there are any projects you want to see made a reality, please feel free to contact us for a quote.
Hmm... while you are at it you might consider the Wabash version of this type of caboose... good for Wabash as well as Norfolk & Western... http://rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=525
Sorry to double post. For those of you who can't wait for the Resin version, I've made the model available on our Shapeways store as well. https://www.shapeways.com/product/5H...shop-inventory Otherwise, the resin version should be ready in two or three weeks.
Very, very close to the Wabash/Ann Arbor style! Makes me wonder how much adjusting would be needed to make one. I have a couple my friend built and I painted, from Micro Trains steel cabooses.
The two will both have no roof walk, and modified handrails to remove the top of the ladder. One version will have no windows except the couple and the ends of the car, the other will have one window removed on each side. See images Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If they did it would have been from the split-up of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, half going to L&N with the other half going to MoPac. Here is a link to a shot of one of the cabs as it was for C&EI... as can be seen in the image, the C&EI cabs were quite different from the NE12... http://rr-fallenflags.org/cei/cei-C009dsa.jpg
It may just be me, but that looks different enough that it would be a different design. Same with the Wabash/NW design that people have been telling me about. I know Great Northern had a similar caboose with the Cupola in the middle, but there are unconfirmed reports that GN purchased a small number of NE-12's from Burlington as well. Feel free to commission one of those other cabooses and I would be happy to make them for you.
