Tyler,
Thanks for sharing this project. I wore myself out cutting wood yesterday, but did a little caboose work. I repainted a shortened Mantua 1860 combine, that is in service as a caboose, and I painted a caboose red, that is similar to the J. E. Patterson Coal and Lumber Co. caboose I have at the club. as I plan my years train budget, I'll have to include some caboose projects. I like your numbering system, mine 201-299 has way more slots than I need, as my locomotives are numbered 01-22, not many of those slots are empty, but at any given time 4-5 of those would be down for repairs or service. That and using combines to make mixed trains will reduce the overall number of cabooses needed to close to ten. I may need more combines.
as I get these caboose projects on the rails, I have about 8 or 9 old AHM and later IHC wood truss rod flats that desperately need their rebuild into log cars finished, especially If I do my RR rebuild, and can move from four car log trains to ten car log trains.
Bill Nelson