Pacemaker HO 41 foot plywood caboose. Only five were made out of old wood freight cars.
I have since painted the wheels black.
The prototype.
The caboose cupola and stack are lower because of height restrictions when the NYC ran the 90 car Pacemaker frieghts.
Rich
Got a request to post these here.
Intermountain Santa Fe cabeese with Tomar marker lights (HO scale):
I’m currently on the hunt for a figure with a telephone to fit in one of the cupolas. Would be neat to simulate the early radio system.
Do your markers turn on with the track power, or can they be independently controlled?
That’s very cool, btw.
You could probably modify an engineer or fireman figure to look like someone sitting with a phone. Cut the arm off (with appropriate HO-scale anesthetic of course 
and re-attach it in a different position and then stick a piece of wire bent like a phone receiver painted black, in its hand.
John
The markers are battery powered (AA) with a miniature on/off switch.
If they were track powered I’d use a simple one or two function decoder to control the markers. But to make these track powered I would have to add some form of power pickup (wipers), and I’m not a big fan of friction on the last car of a train.
Cutting and modifying an engineer figure is probably what I’m going to do for the cupola rider.
the Repo Chick movie trailor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9hzoong64
here is a behind the scenes look at the movie and how it was made…
I have several versions of cabeese on my road. Here is one of two Athearn BB Bay Window Cabeese in NYC Jade Green I use frequently. This one and its brother are lighted. I have to find a way to put markers on it (them).
Here is the same caboose at night:
I used brass wire wound around the axles for pickups on this one. Its brother has modified Kadee coupler springs for pickups. Details on my website.
Very interesting… Not sure about the movie itself, but the idea and the way it’s made is very intriguing. Gives one ideas…
John
The Yuba River Sub uses standard 1930’s-'40’s Rio Grande wooden cabeese. Mine come from both Walthers and Roundhouse.
I’d like to get some later 1940’s steel ones, but finding them in anything other than brass is pretty darned impossible.
Tom
Late post, but I found a pic you might enjoy. CMPA’s “mdern” caboose…
