In some recently purchased items was this yellow caboose. It is Scale-Craft, and was painted (somewhat heavily) and had never been decaled. As I looked at it, I thought of various options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going way back in my model railroading, one of my first projects I remember that was a big disappointment was I painted a caboose yellow. Yellow is hard to paint, it went on real heavy, not happy with the results. This SC caboose looked rather like what the result might have been if I painted it years ago. Not terrible, but not a great paintjob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Searching images of yellow cabooses, I found the Nevada Northern has a caboose number 6, so that became the number. I thought about lettering it for the Newton Northern to match an engine I had, but that did not feel right. Finally, I decided to letter it for the Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was one of my early freelance lines and was my original OO line. It is a river near where my parents grew up in Kansas, and my freelanced line followed it up into the Flint Hills. I had never done an OO caboose for it, although I did do two engines<\/a> and a stock car<\/a> back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Fall-River-caboose.jpg?resize=640%2C445&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Fall River?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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