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n January 2013 my wife, Joni, shared wonderful news with
me. She told me that we would be expecting our third
child. We live in a three-bedroom house with a den, and
I had a small HO scale layout in there. I knew what this won-
derful new blessing on its way meant for the layout. It would
be coming down to turn the den into a toy room. I have to
smile as I now hold our first daughter and tell her I’m wrapped
around her little finger. She can even get Dad to tear down a
layout (of course, she smiles back).
We are waiting to build our
dream home on a few acres.
In the meantime this left
Upgrading a
large scale
caboose...
Extended-vision caboose - 2
me with a few options. One, I could be an armchair modeler. I
could read, learn, dream, and plan. Or I could put to use the G
scale equipment I ‘d been collecting in hopes of having a gar-
den railroad someday. I picked option two. I figured this would
be a good time to start a small garden railroad. This way I will
develop the skills needed for building a larger garden railroad.
After all, most of us didn’t start with large layouts, no matter
what our chosen scale. We started small, learned the skills of
the hobby, then built larger layouts.
Getting started
For my first project I decided to detail the interior of a
Burlington Northern caboose [lead photo] and [2]. I began
by turning to Google to find images of caboose interiors and
2. USA Trains extended-vision caboose.
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