Saturday, October 11, 2008

HO scale Campbell's Soup caboose, 1982


The Pennsylvania Lake Region blue caboose is a Life-Like issue that happened to match the Campbell's Soup one. Because the Campbell's one had a missing handrail, I swapped the two frames. If you'll look closely, you'll see the railings are mismatched on the Pennsy car, replaced with one from the junk box---a perfect fit but not a perfect match. I do not know who originally manufactured the promotional set.

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It is a fascinating sub-hobby to figure out who had what mold and when. Everything was a drop in fit, even though the handrails were of a different design and manufacturer. More intriguing still is that the Pennsy car I have is not on Tony's page...hmmmmm.

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