I am still contemplating adding one of the Intermountain (Centralia Car Shops) ex-ATSF cabooses to my roster. There are 4 road #'s 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 1101 is on display and open to the public in Rogers , Arkansas. A portion of the caboose was repainted by the local NRHS chapter.
International cabooses are nice, but you still have to modify them, i.e., block out the window and door, so I just did it using the Athearn cabooses about 20 years ago; a lot cheaper and easy to do.
Why can´t Frisco.org approach Intermountain with former ATSF cabooses properly detailed for the Frisco? This is how special projects are born. Mabie the nice folks at the Amarillo Railroad Museum or Texas Western could consider working them into their future program? Joe Toth
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 ATSF cabooses in silver with a yellow "coonskin" taken at Chaffee. I am guessing it was for work train service?
Here is #1147 in local service, I bought the photo in Springfield, MO about 25 years ago. I do not know where the caboose location is in the picture.
