It has been a while since I've posted anything until lately. Due to my job I'll be going back to Korea for a year so these last couple weeks I've been getting everything squared away (or at least trying to). And yes, part of which is deciding what to bring as far as train projects. One night while I was researching more on the Korean National Railroad Museum (since I didn't go last tour) I found a website owned by a Korean War vet who was in the Railway Operating Battalion over there. While browsing through the photos I saw two things of interest; one of their clean looking Pacifics and a neat four-wheeled bay window caboose.
Now normally I'm not into international railroading nor am I into four wheel cabeese, but the heavens have parted to shed a new light to a modeling perspective. Now the Pacific, as American looking as it is, will lose the angled plate on the pilot and look like the "real" WRRy Pacific #1919. I do like it's clean lines on the boiler, the straight boiler and secretly the streamlined tender. The caboose is something unique for sure, as you can see the ring for a machine gun up top which would not appear on my model. The caboose that is attached to the old C&S Heisler as a pickup will probably be the candidate for rebuilding since it already has a spot on the roster as C8 and I shouldn't need anything bigger than that down in the quarry (that's where that caboose will operate out of, to not only guard the rear of the train when it backs down the grade but also to transport quarry personnel).
Tyler