The models are fairly hefty which is consistent with resin castings.
The trucks are marked Atlas made in China. The couplers are Kadee but I haven’t removed one to see which model.
If they’re not these then any ideas? The models are very similar to the photos and information on this site.
I prefer the two Trueline cabooses I bought NIB earlier but these are pretty good. I was going to wait and see what Atlas does with the Trueline tooling but I thought these were actual Truelines so bought them. I didn’t really look very carefully at them because they looked so like the Truelines but then reasonably accurate models would look similar now wouldn’t they.
Edit: I just discovered these are hand built wood and metal kits made by Juneco.
Well that prompts me to take a much closer look. Mine seem hand painted but maybe they were just “detailed” by a perhaps less than perfectly skilled first buyer.
One had a very flimsy and bent front “strut” leading from the cupola roof to the main roofwalk. This strut is made of very thin styrene it appears. Hopelessly weak and odd considering the rest of the model is so robust.
They certainly look good and have that robust cast body and under frame which appear to be glued together. No way I can see to get inside to re-affix a lead weight in one of them.
Mine are all identical, no screen doors (I have three sets of brass ones I bought earlier for much cheaper kits, and I can add these to the more recent acquisitions if I wish). They have the 6 window cupolas but block lettering and vertical plank sides. Two windows per side of the main bodies.
Atlas trucks puzzled me at first but apparently Atlas made such trucks as parts for quite a while. These certainly run well with metal wheels and heavy bodies.
All the couplers were very low. Three red Kadee washers low per truck and even then not quite correct. One more green (grey?) Kadee washer will do it next time the trucks come off. Slotted common head truck screws as well which sort of dates the trucks.
I believe that Kaslo and Sylvan Scale Models also made resin kits of CP wood cabooses. Could be one of those built up. Again hard to say definitively without seeing anything.
I think that “ReadyTrain” only sells completed custom models rather than kits.
Nicely built now I know these are wood and metal kits. I looked more carefully inside and I can see the unpainted wood inside surfaces.
That explains the hand painted look because they are.
I got a box from my LHS to carry home an express boxcar and the assembly instructions for these kits were in the bottom of that box, serendipity once again!
I’m just tickled pink I acquired these three carefully built models.
A lot of skilled work went into each of these, plus very nice looking Atlas trucks and Kadee couplers.
I just like to look at them. They track really well.