I'm thinking about kitbashing a side door caboose to remove the side door.  Any idea what kind of sheeting I could use to match up with the sides of this car?  Thought about using material from an On30 boxcar, but the earlier Bachmann cars all have thinner boards with less pronounced wood grain.  I wouldn't mind taking the grain off the car, but the width is still a problem. 

Before breaking out the scale ruler and tinkering around with Evergreen strips, I thought I'd check and see if anybody has already done this and hopefully found an easier solution.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7786 (click the pic for a larger image)

A t-boiler shay handbuilt by old Ephram himself, and 30 inch gauge to boot!

Warning, if you start looking at shorpy.com, you won't be able to stop for hours.