Browsing one of the LHS’s around here, on the discount table is this caboose. I liked the looks of it so I bought it. It needs some TLC, I think its an old wood Ambroid kit. It has sprung trucks, real nice there, what I didnt pay any attention to are the couplers, both ends have the proto-knuckle coupler from years ago, they work like the prototype, lift the pin it opens. Works great on the caboose. I have a few of those laying in my parts bin. I may leavem on for the time being while I spruce it up.
I think you’ve gotten yourself an old Silver Streak Tru-Scale wood caboose, by golly. I’ve got two, dating from the late 'fifties, and they look as good as anything on the market today. Silver Streak made innumerable styles of these babies, most of them accurate representations of cabeese on quite a few railroads (GN, SP, NP, Burlington, etc) plus several styles of combine and drover’s cabeese. They were great models to put together, and had a heck of a lot of detail for their time. I’ve still got a drover’s and an SP that I use a lot–they’re good models.
