Steam-era alternatives to the NE-6 Caboose model

[nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org]

Also-- Red Ball has announced injection molded styrene
kits with etched brass details for the CF, CG and CH
cabeese in HO and CF in N and O scales. 
M Rice

--- nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> 

> 

> The N&W mainly used the CF,CG and CH class cabeese

> behind your Y-6b.

> There were a few other odd classes but the majority

> of cabeese would

> have been these two classes.

> 

> CF's were originally built starting in 1914.  CG's

> were all-steel

> versions of the steel-underframed CF and CH's were

> modified versions of

> CG's.  In profile they all looked the same and

> virtually were.  The CF's

> had the distinctive vertical wood siding.  CG's and

> CH's had a

> horizontal division of the steel side with a riveted

> overlap.

> 

> N&W caboose classes are like the N&W hopper cars,

> shorter and taller

> (looking) than any other railroad's classes.  Makes

> 'em pretty difficult

> to kit bash except in a major way- virtual

> scratch-built.  

> 

> In HO brass there were CF's and CG"s(?) by PFM (?)

> for the 1970's(?)(

> pretty good), CF's , CG's and CH's (?) by Overland

> in the early 1990's

> (very nice)and Division Point CF's, CG's, CH's and

> C-1's and C-3's

> (Worth the money if you had it!)and I forget what

> else.

> 

> In kits in HO, the original CF was made by Quality

> Craft as a wood kit

> with pot metal castings.  This product was sold to

> Gloorcraft who cannot

> get the metal castings anymore in the US (EPA) and

> stopped production

> about 1996 or so.  Not a bad kit and the metal parts

> are good.  There

> are a bunch of them still waiting to be built on

> modeler's shelves.

> 

> The AMB laser cut CF kit is still available through

> the Commissary.

> Also a pretty good kit but still the basic wood kit.

> 

> Looks like the PMC kit in plastic is coming October

> 2006. 

> 

> What have I forgotten?

> 

> A further note on the NE-6 caboose.  The W&LE

> apparently designed their

> caboose from the New Haven predecessor of the NE-6

> (NE-5?).  The NKP

> then designed an improved version of that W&LE class

> after the lease of

> the W&LE by the NKP.  These were the N&W C-8 and C-9

> classes if I

> remember the class numbers right.

> 

> G Rolih

> Thanking the authors Jim Brewer and Robert G Bowers

> for their good N&W

> caboose book. 

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