Hey Mark! Thank you very much for stopping in! I really appreciate your encouragement! I know that it’s been a while, and we definitely need to talk soon! I truly hope you had a merry Christmas!😁
I really miss the orange Seaboard Coast Line cabooses of my youth, along with the GP7 and GP9 locos! And the GP38-2s and U18Bs! All in black of course!
Thank you very much! One of the next cabooses I hope to finish within the next 2 to 3 months is a Missouri pacific bay window caboose! It was started around the same time that I began the rock island build, but unfortunately, it didn’t quite continue on the road to completion like this one did.
Great work, that's a nice-looking caboose! A friend of mine owns one of these cabooses (#17821). She uses it as a backdrop/prop at her photo gallery in Kimball, Minnesota.
Thank you for sharing your story with me David! I would never have thought that there are as many of these cabooses still around as there are! Even though this would have never been on my radar to build, it’s amazing how much I have learned during the build, as well as how much it has impacted my audience! ☺
Great construction progress photos, loved seeing this one come together! Great balance of sturdiness and fine detail, the interior is so incredible with the cabinets and so on. With the weathering, the car really does look the business! I recently did a kit version of one of these in HO - With a single watch battery inside for the markers.
That’s really awesome! Unless somebody is a true Rock Island fan, they probably wouldn’t even know that some of these cabooses even exist. I surely didn’t, but the exciting part about doing things that I don’t normally do is that I learn techniques and skills that I wouldn’t normally employ. I had to go to brasstrains.com in order to actually find some HO scale models that gave me enough detail to know what I wanted to do. ☺ I definitely like your idea of using a battery of some sort in order to light up the marker lights. That is one thing that I failed to put on mine, but it’s never too late to add them later.
Thank you very much! While I was initially disappointed in the customer who backed out, being able to still have this piece, has been truly beneficial! ☺
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement! As I said, in the video, I had a customer who ordered it, and then dropped off the face of the Earth. Even though it was initially frustrating, the man did me a favor in more ways than one, because I probably wouldn’t have grown into the modeler that I’ve become had it not been for having the courage to try new things.
I was watching an episode of Tracks Ahead many many years ago where I found out about 1” scale. Been fascinated by it ever since, I hope to have a yard big enough to build a 1” scale railroad someday.
That’s awesome that you were able to find information about 1 inch scale way before now. The interesting thing is that I was actually invited to come out to this railroad back in 2016, and I fell in love with the size because it was way bigger than the G scale that I was doing, but it wasn’t quite so big that, it would’ve been hard to manage. I think the 1.5 inch scale is really cool, but you practically need a crane to lift the locomotives. However, when my GP 60 M is completed, it won’t be very easy to lift either, but at least my cars are manageable for me to lift by hand. I am just very blessed and fortunate that I have this railroad within 30 minutes of where I live. There are other members that have to drive an hour and a half or more in order to get to the railroad.
@@warbondsI’ve been seriously considering diving into G scale as I already have six cars displayed on the valance over my living room window. I have a pretty sizable back yard for G scale (65’W X 80’D) but not sure if it would accommodate a minimum curve radius for 1” scale. And you’ve really inspired me to want to build a 1” scale car or two out of wood (I’m a pretty decent woodworker). I assume you buy the truck/coupler assemblies pre-manufactured?
@@DRUmBEaTTS I would say at 65 foot width would be enough to be able to make a complete curve, and certainly 80 feet deep is definitely long enough to give you a good run! In my personal opinion, I really like the adage of go big or go home! The 1 inch scale is just big enough to have a lot of fun with, but not so big that it takes a crane in order to lift the car back on the rails if you have a derailment. Even if you’re not sure what you want to do with the layout right now, I would just go ahead and figure out what you want to build. A lot of times I will see a car in a hobby shop and decide I want to scale that up. I take a scale ruler to measure the width, length, and height which converts from scale feet to actual inches. For instance, if a box car, with the scale ruler measures 50 feet, that will become 50 inches for a 1 inch scale car. Many of the cars average between nine and 10 inches wide, but I try to do all the measurements as accurately as possible. There are some things that I have done that can be pretty tricky when it comes to making small intricate parts, so I try to watch my fingers very carefully with the saws. ☺
O'm a caboose freak, I'll admit it. I have around forty, in all scales, up to and including 1/19th. I build most of them out of coffee stirrers....I'd like to live in one - converted, of course - but sadly they are in very short supply here in UK.
That’s awesome that you collect cabooses and that you also build out of coffee stores! Isn’t it an awesome feeling to be able to acquire some of the most unlikely materials that end up creating some interesting things? ☺ Thank you very much for your encouragement and interest in my channel. I appreciate you making the journey all the way across the pond! 😁
You should look up the Comanche & Indian Gap RR while in Texas. The Click family has some great Santa Fe stuff in 1/8th scale. Although as a Santa Fe guy, I bet you already know them. I found your channel two days ago while at my AFHT. I spent my rest and then Christmas Eve going through the channel and look forward to your future projects and content.
Wow! I am very aware of that club, and even though Danny and I have never met in person, we have corresponded over social media! 😁 We have a mutual friend in common who has actually helped Danny with some of his stuff and is actually the one helping me with my GP60M project when I go to Texas sometime hopefully in the next couple months. Talk about a small world! 😁
Thank you very much for your encouragement and interest in my channel! I’m glad I could provide some great entertainment over the Christmas Season for you, and this certainly encourages me to come up with as many ideas, as I can to keep the channel going! ☺
My father hired out on rock island after getting back from Vietnam....towards the end he said even alot of red and yellow engines really didnt match....he went to CNW and worked there for 11 years and at that time every locomotive had different yellow ....he finished at BN in the last 4 years of his life ....i worked at CC then IC and railnet....the CC pretty had all paducahs weathering different
That’s awesome to get some testimony from somebody who actually worked on this equipment! I also worked for CNW towards the end of their existence before Union Pacific took them over. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how good we had it before the 1995 merger. While Union Pacific had a lot of money to put into the infrastructure, their management absolutely sucked! I decided to get out early before I invested too much time. Even though it was a hard decision, all these years later, I see what Union Pacific has done to so many guys. Well, you definitely go back quite a ways when you say that you work for cc! I definitely remember them and all the Paducah Geeps! 😁
@@warbonds my dad left CNW in 1991 for BN....he already figured it was a matter of time....yeah I miss the CCP alot, some of the best paychecks I ever had....had a astro cargo set up as a camper, would just stay at Markham instead of driving home 2 to 3 hours on a 64 mile trip during agriculture season....trainmaster would come out and knock on the window and yell out YOUR UP!...I'm a otr driver now, going go back to Florida Atlantic and Gulf for my last 6 years....
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Looks great Eric, excellent craftsmanship
Hey Mark! Thank you very much for stopping in! I really appreciate your encouragement! I know that it’s been a while, and we definitely need to talk soon! I truly hope you had a merry Christmas!😁
I like that caboose I was 2 years old when the rockisland went out of business
It’s definitely sad that they fell by the way side, but at least we have ways to keep the memory alive.
That is a masterpiece! What a beautiful caboose!
I really miss the orange Seaboard Coast Line cabooses of my youth, along with the GP7 and GP9 locos! And the GP38-2s and U18Bs! All in black of course!
Thank you very much! One of the next cabooses I hope to finish within the next 2 to 3 months is a Missouri pacific bay window caboose! It was started around the same time that I began the rock island build, but unfortunately, it didn’t quite continue on the road to completion like this one did.
Thanks, very interesting story. Great looking caboose. Hello from Orlando. 👋
Well, hello for Nebraska and thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement!! 😁
Great work, that's a nice-looking caboose! A friend of mine owns one of these cabooses (#17821). She uses it as a backdrop/prop at her photo gallery in Kimball, Minnesota.
Thank you for sharing your story with me David! I would never have thought that there are as many of these cabooses still around as there are! Even though this would have never been on my radar to build, it’s amazing how much I have learned during the build, as well as how much it has impacted my audience! ☺
Great construction progress photos, loved seeing this one come together! Great balance of sturdiness and fine detail, the interior is so incredible with the cabinets and so on. With the weathering, the car really does look the business!
I recently did a kit version of one of these in HO - With a single watch battery inside for the markers.
That’s really awesome! Unless somebody is a true Rock Island fan, they probably wouldn’t even know that some of these cabooses even exist. I surely didn’t, but the exciting part about doing things that I don’t normally do is that I learn techniques and skills that I wouldn’t normally employ.
I had to go to brasstrains.com in order to actually find some HO scale models that gave me enough detail to know what I wanted to do. ☺
I definitely like your idea of using a battery of some sort in order to light up the marker lights. That is one thing that I failed to put on mine, but it’s never too late to add them later.
Sir this is amazing workmanship. And great music too.
As always.... Great job my friend!!!
Thank you very much, Gary! I truly appreciate your encouragement and advice! 😁
It’s a beautiful car. Thank you for sharing the story and build pictures.
Thank you very much! While I was initially disappointed in the customer who backed out, being able to still have this piece, has been truly beneficial! ☺
@@warbonds I understand and agree it's better to keep the project than to give away the labor.
@@JeffDM Exactly!!
I really like your Rock Island outside braced caboose!!! Excellent job! I really enjoy your channel. Good job and keep the videos coming!
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement! As I said, in the video, I had a customer who ordered it, and then dropped off the face of the Earth. Even though it was initially frustrating, the man did me a favor in more ways than one, because I probably wouldn’t have grown into the modeler that I’ve become had it not been for having the courage to try new things.
I was watching an episode of Tracks Ahead many many years ago where I found out about 1” scale. Been fascinated by it ever since, I hope to have a yard big enough to build a 1” scale railroad someday.
That’s awesome that you were able to find information about 1 inch scale way before now. The interesting thing is that I was actually invited to come out to this railroad back in 2016, and I fell in love with the size because it was way bigger than the G scale that I was doing, but it wasn’t quite so big that, it would’ve been hard to manage. I think the 1.5 inch scale is really cool, but you practically need a crane to lift the locomotives. However, when my GP 60 M is completed, it won’t be very easy to lift either, but at least my cars are manageable for me to lift by hand. I am just very blessed and fortunate that I have this railroad within 30 minutes of where I live. There are other members that have to drive an hour and a half or more in order to get to the railroad.
@@warbondsI’ve been seriously considering diving into G scale as I already have six cars displayed on the valance over my living room window. I have a pretty sizable back yard for G scale (65’W X 80’D) but not sure if it would accommodate a minimum curve radius for 1” scale. And you’ve really inspired me to want to build a 1” scale car or two out of wood (I’m a pretty decent woodworker). I assume you buy the truck/coupler assemblies pre-manufactured?
@@DRUmBEaTTS I would say at 65 foot width would be enough to be able to make a complete curve, and certainly 80 feet deep is definitely long enough to give you a good run! In my personal opinion, I really like the adage of go big or go home! The 1 inch scale is just big enough to have a lot of fun with, but not so big that it takes a crane in order to lift the car back on the rails if you have a derailment.
Even if you’re not sure what you want to do with the layout right now, I would just go ahead and figure out what you want to build. A lot of times I will see a car in a hobby shop and decide I want to scale that up. I take a scale ruler to measure the width, length, and height which converts from scale feet to actual inches. For instance, if a box car, with the scale ruler measures 50 feet, that will become 50 inches for a 1 inch scale car. Many of the cars average between nine and 10 inches wide, but I try to do all the measurements as accurately as possible. There are some things that I have done that can be pretty tricky when it comes to making small intricate parts, so I try to watch my fingers very carefully with the saws. ☺
Great Video, Great looking Caboose !
Surly a beautiful caboose 👍🏻👏🏻
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement! ☺
Sweet build!
Thank you very much for the kind words and encouragement! ☺
Great build! I think it looks amazing.
Thank you very much. I really truly appreciate your kind words and encouragement! ☺
excellent work keep it up!!!!!
Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement! ☺
Great video! Great work 🚂
Thank you very much for your kind words! ☺
Another great video! Very interesting
Well, as you get older, we will see how long it takes before I corrupt you into building 1” scale, lol! 🤣
Very nice build! So neat to see the steps you took and the details of those steps.
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement! ☺
Very nice caboose, I have one in brass HO scale made by hallmark. In canada we call them van in case you wanted to know another word for caboose haha
I have heard that term before, but it threw me off the first time I ever heard it. However, with your explanation, it certainly makes more sense. ☺
O'm a caboose freak, I'll admit it. I have around forty, in all scales, up to and including 1/19th. I build most of them out of coffee stirrers....I'd like to live in one - converted, of course - but sadly they are in very short supply here in UK.
That’s awesome that you collect cabooses and that you also build out of coffee stores! Isn’t it an awesome feeling to be able to acquire some of the most unlikely materials that end up creating some interesting things? ☺
Thank you very much for your encouragement and interest in my channel. I appreciate you making the journey all the way across the pond! 😁
You should look up the Comanche & Indian Gap RR while in Texas. The Click family has some great Santa Fe stuff in 1/8th scale. Although as a Santa Fe guy, I bet you already know them.
I found your channel two days ago while at my AFHT. I spent my rest and then Christmas Eve going through the channel and look forward to your future projects and content.
Wow! I am very aware of that club, and even though Danny and I have never met in person, we have corresponded over social media! 😁 We have a mutual friend in common who has actually helped Danny with some of his stuff and is actually the one helping me with my GP60M project when I go to Texas sometime hopefully in the next couple months. Talk about a small world! 😁
Thank you very much for your encouragement and interest in my channel! I’m glad I could provide some great entertainment over the Christmas Season for you, and this certainly encourages me to come up with as many ideas, as I can to keep the channel going! ☺
Very good. It was hard to tell the difference between the real ones and your model.
My father hired out on rock island after getting back from Vietnam....towards the end he said even alot of red and yellow engines really didnt match....he went to CNW and worked there for 11 years and at that time every locomotive had different yellow ....he finished at BN in the last 4 years of his life ....i worked at CC then IC and railnet....the CC pretty had all paducahs weathering different
That’s awesome to get some testimony from somebody who actually worked on this equipment! I also worked for CNW towards the end of their existence before Union Pacific took them over. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how good we had it before the 1995 merger. While Union Pacific had a lot of money to put into the infrastructure, their management absolutely sucked! I decided to get out early before I invested too much time. Even though it was a hard decision, all these years later, I see what Union Pacific has done to so many guys.
Well, you definitely go back quite a ways when you say that you work for cc! I definitely remember them and all the Paducah Geeps! 😁
@@warbonds my dad left CNW in 1991 for BN....he already figured it was a matter of time....yeah I miss the CCP alot, some of the best paychecks I ever had....had a astro cargo set up as a camper, would just stay at Markham instead of driving home 2 to 3 hours on a 64 mile trip during agriculture season....trainmaster would come out and knock on the window and yell out YOUR UP!...I'm a otr driver now, going go back to Florida Atlantic and Gulf for my last 6 years....
Looks great!
Awesome 👍😎
Thank you so very much! ☺
Nice work….