Wheeltapper 2015

Entry in Freight and Engineers Stock

Mick Moignard's Rio Grande Southern Caboose 0401

Description: RGS 0401 served the RGS until the end in 1951. The only RGS caboose not to survive, it was blown up by vandals while on display in Boulder, Co, in the late 1950s.
The model is a rebuilt PSC/Dac Ha model from the mid 1980s. It sports ca completely redetailed underframe, new end details and railings and other changes to bring it to 1951 appearance, including new freight car coil-spring trucks. Finished with airbrush painting. Thinfilm decals including the prototypical wonky numbering on the stove side, it was carefully weathered to match the photos. The model in completed with a DCC sound installation to provide the clickety-clack and other sounds as it rolls along as the end of the train, as well as lighting the marker lamps with correct red to rear and yellow to side and front.