This little logging caboose fits that bill. Found on ebay. half built. Never heard of the maker, but I am not much into logging. Ended up spending all day saturday redoing it. fun and a little challanging fixing up an old kit. That cost 2.25 when new by the way. 
Now it is sitting on the branch waiting for me to tie it onto a train and run it around a few times to see how it tracks. Or possibly doesnt. No idea what will happen to it after that. Stuffed and mounted in a park scene perhaps.
Shane
I don’t think I have any oddball projects happening but that logging caboose is awesome!
Alvie
Shane, that’s a neat little caboose. You did a nice job with it.
This hobby is full of these oddball opportunities to do something creative and rewarding.
Puttering around fixing things, painting things, choosing and applying decals. Inventing your own version of miniature reality.
I relate. The minute you start accounting in this hobby you are missing the point entirely. It’s creating your own real world. In miniature.
I suspect my wife thinks of me as her “oddball project”.
My wife of 33 years absolutely considers me a project, and according to her she has made some progress.
Shane… great caboose project.
-Kevin
A lovely model, Shane.
David
Cool![Y][Y]
I did a project a few years ago. An SD40-2T, with a wide cab.
This picture is during the build, it’s the black one, with the etched metal parts being added:
The finished product, in service:
I did the build on the Diesel Detailer forum, and the only prototype that was close any one could find, was a full size mock up locomotive, buildt for crash testing. I don’t remember if it was the DOT or the DOD that did it.
I also built a “hepage” a rebuilt F7b into a combo HEP and baggage.
That’s all for now.
Mike.
Great workm on the caboose.
Yes, I too am a project that my wife continues to work on.
Nice Shane!
I see nothing more fitting than that Little Red Caboose you built[Y]
I love Oddball projects and there is not a more perfect time than this to post … (He himself) “Oddball” on your thread.
[(-D][(-D][(-D] I just love that one!
It’s funny you should ask about oddball projects. I got a little crazy on eBay the other night thinking these cars would be really neat with an old western 4-4-0 pulling them and a nice Orange Wooden Caboose.
I wish I had the one you built! Please post a link if you have it, because I want one too[Y]
They are completely silly and I think that’s why I liked them so much. The first one looks like a rather large out house[(-D] I haven’t got them yet and I cannot wait to finish them. I actually placed a bid of $100 on the last one because I did not want to lose the third one of the complete set. I’m glad it did not go that far as I got the last one for 22 bucks.
This is going to be a very short train as nothing else in the world will fit in with these cars[(-D]
[;)]TF
I remember Cliff Line and their ads. For what it is worth, Clover House still offers some Cliff Line parts
https://cloverhouse.com/Cart/index.php?cPath=61_62
Dave Nelson
Cliff line made an awsume turntable too.
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Nice Shane!
I see nothing more fitting than that Little Red Caboose you built
I love Oddball projects and there is not a more perfect time than this to post … (He himself) “Oddball” on your thread.
I just love that one!
It’s funny you should ask about oddball projects. I got a little crazy on eBay the other night thinking these cars would be really neat with an old western 4-4-0 pulling them and a nice Orange Wooden Caboose.
I wish I had the one you built! Please post a link if you have it, because I want one too
They are completely silly and I think that’s why I liked them so much. The first one looks like a rather large out house I haven’t got them yet and I cannot wait to finish them. I actually placed a bid of $100 on the last one because I did not want to lose the third one of the complete set. I’m glad it did not go that far as I got the last one for 22 bucks.
This is going to be a very short train as nothing else in the world will fit in with these cars
Oddball? That was pretty much business as usual on many logging and narrow gauge operations. A lot of improvisation happened there… and it continues on in the modeling world. Following Mike Lehman’s example, I have adapted a lot of HO stuff for HOn3, and N stuff to HOn30. Here is my oddball caboose project on my narrow gauge line:
20200801_173749b on Flickr
Logging was a particularly fertile sector for oddball stuff. Here is classic thread:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/263716/2975501.aspx
I still laugh at Ed’s (7j43k) response to that posting…
Simon
Does it count for oddball if there are no trains involved?
Dave should chime in here with his critter builds!
Mike.
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Nice Shane!
I see nothing more fitting than that Little Red Caboose you built
I love Oddball projects and there is not a more perfect time than this to post … (He himself) “Oddball” on your thread.
I just love that one!
It’s funny you should ask about oddball projects. I got a little crazy on eBay the other night thinking these cars would be really neat with an old western 4-4-0 pulling them and a nice Orange Wooden Caboose.
I wish I had the one you built! Please post a link if you have it, because I want one too
They are completely silly and I think that’s why I liked them so much. The first one looks like a rather large out house I haven’t got them yet and I cannot wait to finish them. I actually placed a bid of $100 on the last one because I did not want to lose the third one of the complete set. I’m glad it did not go that far as I got the last one for 22 bucks.
This is going to be a very short train as nothing else in the world will fit in with these cars
I bought a Bachmann bobber caboose very similar to that which I am repurposing as a cabin. The storyline is that the caboose derailed and slid down a hillside where a hermit salvaged it and turned it into a cabin in the woods. I grew up in Omaha and my inspiration for this tale were the stories I heard about the Hermit of Fontenelle Forest. I google to try to find more information about this and this was all I could find:
Thanks for the link to the bobber Caboose Shane. That one was a little spendy as I’ve been tightening my belt spending too much money on eBay lately. I have a similar one put in my cart for when I get PayPal paid off again[(-D][:-^]
I had no idea that three-piece Great Northern passenger set was made 30 years ago John. I guess I’m lucky I found those. That’s too bad you somehow lost one of yours[:'(] You may already be aware but eBay has a watch-list and will email you if one ever comes up again[:)]
TF