Model Railroading > We finally rated? Wabash Railroad

I saw this, but the only Wabash model version offered according to the photo is brown. AFIK, the steel cabooses were a bright red with most of the wooden versions a brown.

https://www.walthers.com/search/?q=wabash+caboose

Victor Baird



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/25 20:16 by wabash2800.

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I have had some contact with a former president and board member of the Wabash RR Historical Society, and he says he worked with Walthers on this a long time ago and was surprised that it finally came to fruition. Gary recently made Walthers aware that the image depicted is incorrect (the lettering and the color). I have some Wright Track Model resin cars and have all that I need but might reserve one to see how well they were done. I hope the windows are correct. as brass models had the windows too small.

Walthers is offering Ann Arbor, DT&I and N&W versions. The blue N&W car was not as common as the red cars. In fact, I never saw one blue car the entire time I railfanned N&W in Indiana.

Victor Baird



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/25 09:09 by wabash2800.

At $75.00 a car, they better be VERY accurate.

Though not a big deal to me, note there were different roof corrugations. I would assume that Walthers stuck with one version.

Victor Baird

Edit: Walthers is offering the two different roof syles.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/25 15:25 by wabash2800.

You can always get an undecorated one and detail it how you want it.
The undecorated cars come unassembled so you don't have to disassemble the model to work on it.
Makes it real easy to add DCC lights and sound too.

gandydancer4 Wrote:
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> At $75.00 a car, they better be VERY accurate.

Which is substantially less than "VERY accurate" cabooses are selling for.
At least we've moved beyond Irv's paint every railroad name on a Santa Fe-style caboose.

Of course, there is always this for more information on the cabooses.

www.walthers.com/resources/pdf/new-product-express/JUNE_2025_Walthers_New_Products_C_Links.pdf

gandydancer4 Wrote:
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> At $75.00 a car, they better be VERY accurate.

$75 is pretty reasonable.  The Rapido and Genesis and Tangent all exceed $100.

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> $75 is pretty reasonable.  The Rapido and Genesis
> and Tangent all exceed $100.

We could see these for under $60 retail. Not a bad deal, IMO.

I bought one of their undec Troop Camp cars and it was assembled--glued together. I'll try putting it in the freezer to disassemble before painting. It's easier than masking the windows.

Victor Baird

PHall Wrote:
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> You can always get an undecorated one and detail
> it how you want it.
> The undecorated cars come unassembled so you don't
> have to disassemble the model to work on it.
> Makes it real easy to add DCC lights and sound
> too.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/25 14:17 by wabash2800.

Thanks but they still have the Wabash car in the wrong paint scheme and no red N&W cars. The windows look like they are too small like the brass versions offered.

Victor Baird


SantaFe5704 Wrote:
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> Of course, there is always this for more
> information on the cabooses.
>
> www.walthers.com/resources/pdf/new-product-express
> /JUNE_2025_Walthers_New_Products_C_Links.pdf

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> I bought one of their undec Troop Camp cars and it
> was assembled--glued together. I'll try putting it
> in the freezer to disassemble before painting.
> It's easier than masking the windows.
>
> Victor Baird

I ended up buying a 3 pack and a single of the Troop camp cars labeled for Conrail but the vans on the flat cars were painted and plain.  Seems that would be a lot less work assembled and painted but no reporting marks.
 

I always thought these cabeese were really kool, very glad to see WAL doing them.   Unfortunately I am not really a Wabash guy.   I did get the Bway CZ cars in the Blue Bird scheme and pull it with a old P2K E8 modified to sit on a new Walpro helical gear drive.    A modeler could cheat a bit and get one undec and doll it up CB&Q or BN.   The Bmann car shown in the bottom right corner is a Q car.

Richard.

The undec troop cars were assembled like mine, correct?

Victor Baird


SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> wabash2800 Wrote:
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> > I bought one of their undec Troop Camp cars and
> it
> > was assembled--glued together. I'll try putting
> it
> > in the freezer to disassemble before painting.
> > It's easier than masking the windows.
> >
> > Victor Baird
>
> I ended up buying a 3 pack and a single of the
> Troop camp cars labeled for Conrail but the vans
> on the flat cars were painted and plain.  Seems
> that would be a lot less work assembled and
> painted but no reporting marks.
>  

Too bad no Ann Arbor ferry/fog orange either, their last paint scheme... === === = === JLH

I suspect other schemes will be coming, but you would think the Wabash and N&W red schemes would be first out. Maybe the Ann Arbor Historical Society can sponsor a run?

Victor Baird



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/25 19:37 by wabash2800.