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 Posted - July 19 2014 : 07:57:48 AM
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love this caboose for all its faults,lots of detail and attitude of guy in it,thought it was roundhouse but its made from wood,thought of silver streak as a start,ken
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could it be ambroid
http://www.hoseeker.net/ambroid/ambroidgncaboosepg1.jpg
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Posted - July 19 2014 : 09:12:41 AM
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Love that caboose too ken. All the 'faults' just make it look more real to me. Nice aged patina to it that is almost impossible to recreate.
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Posted - July 19 2014 : 11:56:26 AM
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That's a pretty dang cool looking caboose, catfordken. Where did you find that thing?
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Posted - July 19 2014 : 12:54:48 PM
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| facebook my good man ken
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Posted - July 22 2014 : 7:08:01 PM
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The trucks are in fact Silver Streak leaf-sprung trucks, but there isn't a single other part I recognize in it. Whoever put that together had some serious fun
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Posted - July 23 2014 : 6:58:10 PM
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Catfordken, I believe I found who made the caboose you have there. I was browsing through the 1986 Model Railroader magazine and I found this in one this.
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Posted - July 23 2014 : 10:53:04 PM
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Good sleuthing, Stephen. I always wondered who made this little beauty. I picked it up for a fiver at a train show last year. 
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Posted - July 23 2014 : 11:25:33 PM
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Thank you, Nickelplate.Also, I think you got a great deal on that caboose. I mean come on, you basically stole that for that low.That caboose would be an easy 10 or 20 dollars depending on the condition of course. 
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Posted - July 24 2014 : 06:34:16 AM
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we are all right so to speak,ken
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