Does any body have a blue print, diagram or drawing that shows all the dimensions of the Frisco's 1700 series wide or extended vision cabooses?
Any luck finding blue prints on these caboose SLSF 1700-1725 Ethan? It would be nice if someone would maybe 3D print in HO for us huh? I would be in for 2 maybe 3 of them. I think the best SLSF bicentennial paint job was on one of these.
I never did. Caboose SLSF 1714 is setting on display here in Lamar, MO. Maybe one day I could get measurements of it. There are a handful of parts available for caboose SLSF 1200 series that might be "close enough" to use in a caboose SLSF 1700 series build. https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures?type=product&q=frisco
Has Ryan Harris printed one? RCH is on here. He has offered other Frisco caboose items on his Shapeways store.
We might be able to use a cupola of Ryan's, with some minor modifications. We still need that 40' boxcar platform modified on the ends. Could also maybe use some ends of Ryan's too, then Atlas steps, just have to figure out how to put all that together. I do not know, just thinking aloud. By the time you buy an Atlas cab, and all the other parts, just to cut them up, it is kinda nuts. Crazy that just about every other SLSF caboose is available in brass in HO-scale for an accurate model. This is what, 26 cabooses not readily available, accurate in any scale. That Shapeways Z-scale has a few problems. I cannot imagine many Frisco modelers not wanting a couple for their collection. They were such a unique, limited class of cabooses, and just good looking Frisco modified, built cabooses. Maybe someday huh?
SLSF Freak (Mike) has made a 3D print, N-scale if I remember correctly. I will be darned if I can find his posts on same. He did a great job. He is a very talented, busy man, with more irons in the fire than I can count. I have tried to nudge an HO print, but no confirmation. I think the size of print is an issue. There are so many scale differences, to what ever scale, that it might not work. And, those issues, are issues on their own just to expand a print. Basically, I do not know enough, to know I do not know.
