This weeks post title is reminiscent of Mr. Carrol’s classic Alice In Wonderland. Instead of lowly cabbages we are naturally working with cabooses. Omscaler feels fortunate to be using GM&O cabooses. The reason being is that the cupola is centered. This is a little better than having the cupola on one end like many other roads. A centered cupola means the caboose does not need to be turned although almost all other railroads just simply ran the caboose “backwards”. A backward caboose has a little less viewing angle as far as watching the train is concerned. So we will will be using a handy caboose type which the GM&O used until they got centered “wide vision” cabooses. As far as the “King” we mentioned. We are building a “Mogul”. Similar title in my opinion. This is a locomotive with a 2-6-0 wheel arrangement. Two wheel front trucks were used for freight locomotives. Four wheel for passenger locomotives. However the railroads used these interchangeably whenever a pressing need arose. Fabricating away, omscaler
