Many thanks to Bruce, Steve, and Dennis for explain the sheathing terminology. Bill L

This thread seems to have morphed into a “which single and double sheathed box cars cars made it thru the Transition era into the 60s”. I have done some searches on sheathed box cars and know they wer

Mainline Hobbies up route 15 in PA is the best…my fellow MRs swear by them. But that is quite a distance from DC Bill L

The DC Area is a huge area. I live in the western suburbs (25 miles from downtown DC) and only one train shop is in the county now – Trains and Collectibles. It is right off I66 and is very friendly a

Absolutely fantastic info. I will go looking for it tomorrow. Thank you, Bill

Don, That would be wonderful. Thanks, Bill

An excellent write-up and pics of the B&O Bobber Cabooses. However, I had found an Ambroid PRR Bobber Caboose kit that I want to scratchbuild in styrene. So I would love to have similar information on

Ken, It took me a while to follow up on your link but I did find the Bobber Caboose diagrams. Thanks, Bill L

Ray, I just did a search on a The Car Builders Dictionary you had below and eventually found the 4-Wheel caboose images. However the underframe images were side view images and not a true underneath i

I have been swamped by so much lovely information on Bobber Cabooses. I will need some time to sort thru it all. I thank you all so very much. Bill L

Bill, The article is really from pages 42-45. The drawing is on page 44. Do you want me to scan some or all of it and send it to you? Bill Lyders

I was fascinated by the recent stories about that caboose in Golden, CO. But I am starting to build a 4 wheel caboose and would like to see if there are any pictures or diagrams of said cabooses from

Jason, I found your reply to Larry very useful. I am working on my Cars AP and your advice is right in line with my AP Chairman direction to us. I love this RealSTMFC group and all the discussions and

I am trying to scratch build the ACL Watermelon Car starting with an Ambroid Kit from the 50s [One of my Cars for my NMRA AP Cars certificate]. This kit has all the wood pieces but no car details like