I am still contemplating adding one of the Intermountain Centralia Car Shops former ATSF cabooses to my roster. There are 4 road numbers available. Do any or all of them replicate the prototype? In other words, are they spot-on, close enough, or neither? Please try and be specific in your responses and why. http://www.intermountain-railway.com/distrib/ccs/html/ccs1111.htm Thanks in advance.
Frisco (ATSF) caboose SLSF 1101 is on display and open to the public in Rogers, Arkansas. A portion of the caboose was repainted by the local National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) chapter.
International cabooses are nice, but you still have to modify them, block out the windows and door. So I just did it using the Athearn cabooses about 20 years ago. A lot cheaper and easy to do.
This is how special projects are born. Why cannot Frisco.org approach Intermountain with former ATSF cabooses properly detailed for the Frisco? Maybe the nice folks at the Amarillo Railroad Museum or Texas Western could consider working them into their future program? Joe Toth
Joe, The Centralia Car Shops ATSF Frisco cabooses that I asked about earlier in this thread are Intermountain products. Centralia Car Shops is owned by and a division of Intermountain.
Some where I have a picture of one of the former ATSF cabooses in silver with a yellow "coonskin" taken at Chaffee, MO. I am guessing it was for work train service?
