Does any body have a blue print or diagram that shows all the dimensions of the Frisco's 1700 series wide version cabooses?
Any luck finding blue prints on these 1700-1725 cabooses Ethan? It would be nice if someone would maybe 3D print in HO for us huh? I would be in for 2 maybe 3 of them. I think the best SL-SF bicentennial paint job was on one of these.
I never did. Caboose 1714 is setting on display here in Lamar, maybe one day I could get measurements on it. There are a handful of parts available for 1200 series cabooses that might be "close enough" to use in a 1700 build. https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures?type=product&q=frisco
Has Ryan Harris printed one? (RCH on here) He has offered other Frisco caboose items on his shapeways store.
We might be able to use a cupola of Ryan's, with some minor modifications. We still need that 40' boxcar platform modified on the ends, could also maybe use some ends of Ryan's too, then Atlas steps, just gotta figure out how to put all that together. I dont know just thinking aloud. By the time you buy an Atlas cab, and all the other parts, just to cut them up, it's kinda nuts. Crazy that just about every other SL-SF cab is available in brass (HO) for an accurate model. This is what, 26 cabs not readily available, accurate in any scale (that shapeways Z scale has a few problems). I can't imagine many Frisco modelers not wanting a couple for their collection. They were such a unique, limited class of crumboxes, and just good looking Frisco modified/built cabooses. Maybe someday huh?
SLSF Freak (Mike) has made a 3D print, N scale if I remember right, I'll be darned if I can find his posts on same, he did a great job. He is a very talented, busy man, with more irons in the fire than I can count. I have tried to nudge an HO print, but no confirmation. I think the size of print is an issue and so many scale differences, and those issues, are issues on their own, to just expand a print, to what ever scale, might not work. Basically.. I don't know enough, to know I don't know.