Goofin' around.

[TrainNut]

I decided to goof around a little today and combined a caboose with a gondola for the track maintenance crew. I think it turned out kinda neat. It still needs more work but that's probably as far I'll take it. Like I said, I was just goofin' around.

[sdkid]

I think it looks cool. You never know what the repair shop will come up with.

[ak-milw]

I will have to say that I have never seen anything like it!!

[Trainman1965]

And it don't look to safe either. LOL but cool to.

[lyates]

I like it TrainNut. Fooling around is a lot of fun abd you can sure come up with something different.

[LiveSteamer]

Looks Great.

[Boss Boomer]

Actually...that's not really a bad notion ya got working there. The real RR's did similar things based upon their needs and the experience and inventiveness of their workers.

"Money talks" and "Necessity IS the Mother of Invention."

Many roads just didn't have the bank accouint of the PRR or SP, so they had to make do in lotsa ways. Here, you combine the efforts of a work crew needing a resting place while on heavy wrecker duty. Man's gotta sleep some time and if needs be, that caboose oughta have four or more bunks in it as well as an icebox, a toilet, a stove, and it goes without saying, but food and water. Thinking about some more, it'll have storage space for tools and equipment. You got the bases covered with your "foolin' around."

My first reaction was..."I ain't never seen nothing like it!" My second thought was, "Oh, yah,...I have!"

I say, "Good on ya, Old Son. That's a right cool idea ya got for your MoW crew!"

Two thumbs up!

[TrainNut]

Thank you for that. I actually had the idea when I was moving some cars around the layout (by hand) and accidentally stuck a caboose inside of the bottom part of a double stack car. I looked at it and thought it looked pretty cool. I was going to goof around with that but I only have a few of those double stackers and did not want to hack one of them up and so used a gondola instead. Other than that, I just used my destructive creativity and my dremel cutoff blade and went from there. I figure that if you come up with something that is one of a kind, you'll be wrong 'cause somebody will find a picture of one just like it in the real world.

Just for kicks, I thought of putting a patio table with a little umbrella out on the gondola part. I looked around in my "pieces" boxes and could not find one. Oh well!

[Boss Boomer]

"...a patio table with a little umbrella out on the gondola part."

Ooops, you were going good til then, TrainNut. John Allen, "The" John Allen, of Gorre and Daphetid fame, already beat ya to THAT little trick!

[lyates]

Hey Boss you are right but I want you to show me a trick anywhere that John Allen hadn't already done on his pike at one time or another.Hehehe bet you can't