This caboose is located at the Houghton County Historical Society. I was not able to find out what prototype used this four wheel bobber. Many upper peninsula railroads used this style of caboose. It is not a Mineral Range cab as they appear to have only one end window the top of which is even with the door header. The end platforms on the MR car do not span the entire width of the car leaving room for end stairs. I am currently building a pilot model of this caboose to get a feel for how it needs to be assembled. My plan is to use this experience and build three bobbers more closely following the Mineral Range prototype. I will use the dimensions of this prototype as the basis for the MR model. This will be a build I will be documenting later this fall.
I have been posting additional information on the Schusters building build. The build is catching up with the current status of the model.
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