Hello all. My first post here.

I'm planning on eventually building a layout based on the Western Pacific. In the interest of getting rolling stock done, I've started building a couple of cabooses. They are old Roundhouse kits of the exterior braced ones rebuilt from box cars. But the kits come with straight ladders, not the prototypical ones that included the curved connection to the roof at the top. They look like this:

Here are a couple of pics of the types of grain bins you would see on a farm, not necessarily at a Coop or any thing like that

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