Decal help

Great job here -- need the same decal.

TIA

Jim

For Z scale CB&Q decals, you will either have to find an N scale decal that will be the same size, look for Microscale decals at your local hobby shop or online. Your best bet for smaller decals are the ones used for switch engines.

Your second option is to make them yourself using decal paper, or find someone that can make them for you.

Problem with that is in order to print white, you need a special printer that is no longer made and a special cartridge only used on that printer that is also no longer made. There are some people out their that had hoarded these things and you might get lucky and they will make you some decals.
You should be able to print these things on white decal paper. Since I have had not much luck or experience with decals, perhaps someone else will chime in here.

The caboose in your picture is a wide vision caboose, which was used by several railroads late in the caboose game. They were bought from a company by railroads, instead of being made in-house by their own shops. Robert Ray used to make a kit of this particular caboose.

The MTL caboose is an eastern railroad caboose and was not used at all by the CB&Q. If you want something that is close to the CB&Q, you need to look for the Märklin one that is in the set with the steam engine. Sometimes you can find them on online sites. You will then have to either changed the couplers, which is easy using the Zealatory kit, or connect it with a car that has Märklin coupler on one side and a MTL coupler on the other.

If you are only going to run them around in the coffee table, no harm in just throwing on a decal to the MTL caboose.

Found these:

www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=60-1183&Category_Code=CBQ&Product_Count=53

www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=CBQ

While it isn't the same type of wide vision caboose as the one in the photo, there is a wide vision caboose kit available from Animek.