When the light-bulb went off in my head of what I was going to build and model, I pretty much had the required rolling stock on hand. I guess in the back of my mind I was subconsciously thinking of Calico Ghost Town years earlier without realizing it. The Calico & Odessa uses small ore cars very similar to those made by LGB for the late Ward Kimball Grizzly Flats Railroad train set. I had purchased a few of these years ago to go behind the little red “Cricket” so they fit in perfectly.
I needed a small caboose to complete the train. That was accomplished through an Ozark Miniatures caboose from their mining collection of rolling stock. Again – a perfect fit. I ordered it and that was a winter project in preparation for the 2013 construction. With some minor modifications, it now looks closer to the caboose on the real C&O.
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