The First Rolling Stock

Whilst looking at ebay and the shops and contrasting what I got for my money in various starter sets etc, it became clear that a starter set was going to come with 2, perhaps 3 wagons/coaches,  and therefore if there was much to be done on the future layout it would need a few more purchases.  I'd also started to get a feel for ebay prices, and second hand prices and there didn't seem to be the 'used and a bit battered' type of item that I'd found when looking for N gauge open wagons to use in my 28mm old west miniatures games as mine wagons.  Having reached the decision that I was almost certainly going down the LGB route then I'd been looking for track bargains as well.

So, a couple of purchases were made for the first rolling stock.
This Caboose was brand new but minus chimneys.



This was from Ebay, and eventually identified as part the Lake George and Boulder series - to me it was a grey box wagon - so with an American theme.

Two items and an American theme has started to appear.

To start to get an idea of size and scale, these were placed in the garden and we put out the second hand track I'd got to start to get a feel for that as well.  The Co Director of Patio Rails got some string to pull one of the wagons up and down the track (and do woo woo sounds in the process).  Early wagonways and tramways were horse drawn before the application of steam, so are re-doing history in microcosm?