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  • #196
    Interesting approach. Were your cars recently judged or were they judges a while ago. In my newness at this scratch building and scoring activity I thought that the judges gave a good amount of conformity and detail points from the associated matrices for a car whose documentation packages included detailed drawings/plans, pictures, research, etc. information.

    Did you detail the inside of your drover caboose and if so did you make or purchase the items you placed inside both the drover's compartment and the conductor's compartment?

    Joe in Orlando

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    • #197
      Joe,

      A drovers caboose is not much more than a lengthened caboose. You could take plans for a regular caboose for height and width dimensions and then make it longer by doing something along the lines of what Martin describes, using the dimensions of a window.

      Here’s a description of how one modeler modified a LaBelle kit to build a drovers caboose:

      https://cwrailman.com/Drover%20Caboo...20Caboose1.htm

      Regarding conformity, your model can conform to an actual prototype or if freelance it can conform to standard practice.

      Mike
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      • #198
        quote:

        Originally posted by Joe-SVL

        Interesting approach. Were your cars recently judged or were they judges a while ago. In my newness at this scratch building and scoring activity I thought that the judges gave a good amount of conformity and detail points from the associated matrices for a car whose documentation packages included detailed drawings/plans, pictures, research, etc. information.

        Did you detail the inside of your drover caboose and if so did you make or purchase the items you placed inside both the drover's compartment and the conductor's compartment?

        Joe in Orlando

        Joe, check your PM inbox. I sent you one about 2 days ago.

        Jim
        Take the red pill

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        • #199
          AMB makes a model for a Missouri Pacific drovers caboose, actually two different designs. You can check it out here:

          http://www.laserkit.com/laserkit.htm

          An article describing the kits states that they were manufactured from drawings and photos in the publication of a Missouri Pacific historical group: http://www.mopac.org/modeling/60-caboose

          Mike
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          • #200
            quote:

            Originally posted by Joe-SVL

            Interesting approach. Were your cars recently judged or were they judges a while ago. In my newness at this scratch building and scoring activity I thought that the judges gave a good amount of conformity and detail points from the associated matrices for a car whose documentation packages included detailed drawings/plans, pictures, research, etc. information.


            Oh, I regularly do not the best in the area of Conformity, but I make it all up with high scores in the other 4 categories to get Merit awards. And, I generally make 15+ points in Conformity since I can present a pretty solid argument of building to prototypical practice and justify the designs and operations of most cars I build.

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            Did you detail the inside of your drover caboose and if so did you make or purchase the items you placed inside both the drover's compartment and the conductor's compartment?

            I think I actually did do that for one of the cars - I recall actually building 3. Might have been the 3rd one that I put an interior into although I really dislike doing that since to appreciate that you need to make the roof removable and then getting and keeping a good fit there is very difficult to maintain.
            In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding.

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            • #201
              Mike,

              Thanks for the link describing how a modeler modified a LaBelle kit to create a Drovers caboose. I had skimmed that article earlier but will now go back and study it in detail. In my skimming one idea popped out at me, namely that the modeler installed a tar paper roof. Was that a common roof covering in the 1940s - 1960-s?

              Joe in Orlando

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              • #202
                Joe,

                Honestly, I don’t know. This would have been a pretty old-fashioned car by the 40’s or 50’s so it would have reflected earlier practice, which would include what you have in mind.

                You might want to do something like what was done for the MP car that I linked to above. In fact, I think it would be a good example to follow in proportions and details.

                Mike

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                • #203
                  Mike,

                  Several days before you posted your reply to my inquiry I found on-line a wonderful square-on photo of the MP 1112 car. I've extracted 20 measurements from that photo and now have a very good HO-scale CAD drawing of the side of the car.

                  thanks

                  Joe in Orlando

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                  • #204
                    quote:

                    Originally posted by Joe-SVL


                    Several days before you posted your reply to my inquiry I found on-line a wonderful square-on photo of the MP 1112 car. I've extracted 20 measurements from that photo and now have a very good HO-scale CAD drawing of the side of the car.

                    Excellent. These cars were rare but make interesting models.

                    Mike
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                    • #205
                      Is a Modified Drovers Caboose a passenger car?

                      Several months ago I came upon a wonderful almost square-on photograph of an MP 1112 Drovers Caboose and am using that car as the prototype for my 2-nd certificate car. A member of this forum also kindly pointed me to an AMB kit of the exactly same car. I am about to begin framing the interior of my car; but I've been intrigued by the presence of a slatted door on the side of the car. Last evening I sent an e-mail to the archivist of the MP Historical Society and get a very detailed reply this morning. Essentially the 1112 and others were modified by the MP from being Drovers Cabooses to being LCL carriers. All of the Drovers accommodations were removed in this modification. Thus I am concerned wrt whether this modified Drovers Caboose would quality as a passenger car.

                      MY question is should I install a regular door in place of the slatted door and claim that the MP 1112 is no longer a "Modified" Drovers Caboose and now just a regular Drovers Caboose and thus a passenger car again?

                      thanks

                      Joe in Orlando

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                      • #206
                        Joe,

                        You are making this a lot tougher than it needs to be. :erm:

                        Model it as the Drover Caboose, and in your documentation, tell what period you are displaying...problem is a non-problem.

                        Relax.

                        Jim
                        Take the red pill

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                        • #207
                          In that case I’d do a model of the unmodified passenger-carrying version. Here’s what the NMRA rules say:

                          ‘“Passenger cars" include anything that would normally be found in a regular scheduled passenger train including baggage cars, express reefers, business cars, or other passenger carrying cars like drover's cabooses.’

                          The LCL car is no longer a passenger car.

                          You could build models of both types of MP cars or build a freelance drovers caboose by lengthening the MP car to fit a line of windows and freight doors. There are photos of this type of drovers caboose on the web. The few points you lose on not following a prototype exactly would be made up for by the complexity of the model.
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                          • #208
                            Guys,

                            The Drover's Caboose, assigned to freight trains, were the quarters for the cowboys who were responsible for the livestock, and the quarters for them on the train. They tended to the horses, cattle, or other livestock, as railroads, under rule, were required to stop and unload the livestock into pens after so many hours for rest. Then reload when the rest and feeding period were over. The drovers stayed in that caboose, went to work, and returned to it when the train was to move. That is why is was called a "Drover's". Look at the railroads that had them. They were mostly mid-western and central in the country. Cowboy country.

                            Now I'm sure that the Drover's at some point, may have been used for passengers, but probably with some disdain. Cowboys probably weren't too worried about getting the excrement off their boots when getting into the caboose, so I'm sure that to some degree a particular smell was associated with them after much use. Even with cleaning, there still would remain a certain odoriferous scent, which to any farm hand is nothing, but to passengers would become, well, lets just say, unpleasant.

                            Levi

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                            • #209
                              Windows

                              I'm curious to hear from those who have scratch built a passenger / drovers caboose car wrt whether they left the window "glass" clear or whether they frosted them sorta like we do for buildings / factories.

                              Joe in Orlando

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                              • #210
                                Joe, both my regular caboose and my passenger/combine had some interior details, so I left my windows clear. If they were empty spaces, I'd probably frost them.
                                Bruce

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