I was very pleased to see both the ar-
ticles on the DL&W cabooses in the July and August issues (plus the Lack- awanna F-units in June).
I’ve built a number of these cabooses over the years. One of the attached photos shows my first
scratchbuilt
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DL&W cabooses The DSS&A and Wisconsin Central were merged into the Soo Line on Jan- uary 1, 1961, not 1957 as written in the July issue’s article on the DL&W ca- booses. Also the ex-PS&N caboose (June issue) that became DSS&A 590 was destroyed in a runaway wreck on L’Anse hill in L’Anse, Michigan on De- cember 14, 1951.
ROBERT OOM Kalamazoo, MI
PHOTO: JIM DALBERG
DL&W wood caboose, done in 1961. This particular photo was published in RMC in 1965 or thereabouts (BOOMER TRAIL). The model was built from a photo taken up in Bangor, and unfortu- nately I took no measurements to use as a guide. As a result it is a tad over- size, not quite “OO-ish,” sort of like the old Roundhouse NE caboose. I did the same trick with one of the big L&HR wood cabooses about the same time, except this one is a little small. I built several more in the 1970’s and
1980’s and then a couple of Dr. John Greene’s BCW kits several years ago. (These are now available from Tom Callan at Shortline Products.) We had the Port Morris Drill drag the cabooses down to Netcong for a photo op. The “big” one is near the end of the string, and the yellow one, at the end near the Rt. 206 bridge, is a brass model. I have a couple of the steel cabs. One
scratchbuilt of styrene about 35 years ago and the other one from an excel- lent Joe Lofland’s (JJL Models) resin kit. They are out on trains BH-8 and HB-9; so not available.
The railroad represents (parts of) the DL&W between Hoboken and
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