Happy 2021 to all.
Just finished a little road trip to collect some photographic inspiration for the old railroad layout. While at the Arizona Railroad Museum the caboose which started it all was spotted. The late Ron Tarjany MMR, modeled the TC&GB and his articles for Railroad Modeler were the inspiration for the Arizona Southern that began back in the mid 1980's. This caboose gave the inspiration to make our own wooden cars from kits available at the time. The roller bearing trucks of this car, not being available, we substituted the Athearn caboose trucks on our AZSO models.
Not having Ron's skill or patience, we opted for the Roundhouse / MDC kits of the day; in fact still using those kits today to round out the caboose needs of the AZSO and any subsidiaries. We did make all our older cars have a family look by adding similar details to each, yet keeping each wood car as an individual at the same time.
Thanks for reading this, comment if the mood strikes you.
John Huey
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