Just finished making this caboose road ready for my layout. As with any work I get that someone else long departed has done, I leave it untouched save to upgrade whatever is necessary to make it trackable. It originally was equipped with hook/loop couplers. It is made up of castings and stamped tin and brass. I've added wheelsets and the brass ladders that were missing. The two castings that make up the end beams have "Mantua" cast into them. Can anyone help me set a year for this old bird? Thanks in advance for any help.
Edited by - shaygetz on August 24 2007 01:00:13 AM
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Thanks, Ray. Hard to imagine it being 60 years old. It certainly explains the lopsided soldering job when you factor in those huge copper irons they had back then, heated over a gas jet. Yikes...
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