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This month (December 2011) Bluford Shops is proud to announce the first road names on their brand new caboose tooling in N scale. This group represents just two of the five all new caboose body styles. The other three will be covered in the next few months. All Bluford Shops cabooses come ready-to-run with magnetically operating
knuckle style couplers, metal detail parts and, roller bearing caboose style leaf spring trucks except where noted. Axle generators and screen window frames will be included in the package.
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The second release of these cabooses consists of Transfer Cabooses. Transfer cabooses were used for cross-town hops between yards. All Bluford Shops cabooses come ready-to-run with magnetically operating knuckle style couplers, metal detail parts and appropriate trucks for the road name.First draft artwork shown, subject to improvement by Bluford's crack development team! |
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Part #: BS-21130 - Missouri Pacific - Road #: 13819 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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MoPac built 351 of these cabooses at their De Soto and Sedalia Shops. The two road numbers represented in this run, 13819 and 13847 both rolled out of the Sedalia paint shops with the black and yellow U-1 dot (seen to the left of the con-stencil) already applied. The U-1 dot program was a national effort to weed out a group of defective 33” wheels. A yellow dot meant the wheels had been inspected and none from the bad batch were found.. |
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Part #: BS-21131 - Missouri Pacific - Road #: 13847 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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MoPac built 351 of these cabooses at their De Soto and Sedalia Shops. The two road numbers represented in this run, 13819 and 13847 both rolled out of the Sedalia paint shops with the black and yellow U-1 dot (seen to the left of the con-stencil) already applied. The U-1 dot program was a national effort to weed out a group of defective 33” wheels. A yellow dot meant the wheels had been inspected and none from the bad batch were found.. |
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Part #: BS-21070 - Term. RR Assoc. St. Louis - Road #: 635 "Duncan" - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Transfer Cabooses. TRRA picked up two of these cabooses second hand from Union Pacific and continues to use them today. When placed into service, each was named (over the window.) 634 was named “Gil” and 635 was named “Duncan.” TRRA locomotives have been produced in HO and N by Bowser and Atlas respectively.. |
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Part #: BS-21071 - Term. RR Assoc. St. Louis - Road #: 635 "Duncan" - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21080 - Illinois Terminal - Road #: 805 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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Illinois Terminal Cabooses. Illinois Terminal may have had the very first cabooses of what would later be described as the“short-body bay window” design. Our model is presented on our “Version 1” (short-body bay window all-steel) caboose. This road name will be available in 2 road numbers. Several Illinois Terminal locomotive runs have been produced in both scales in recent years by multiple manufacturers. |
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Part #: BS-21081 - Illinois Terminal - Road #: 804 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21090 - Buffalo & Pittsburgh (Genesee & Wyoming) - Road #: 1004 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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Buffalo & Pittsburgh (Genesee & Wyoming) Shoving Platform/Transfer Caboose. Buffalo & Pittsburgh is one of the key properties in the Genesee & Wyoming family of railroads. About the same length as the DM&IR or Central Vermont, BPRR practices big time railroading with some big power and long trains. They picked up this caboose second hand from Union Pacific. Buffalo & Pittsburgh locomotives have been produced in HO and N by Atlas Model Railroad Company. |
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Part #:BS-21100 - Willamette & Pacific (Genesee & Wyoming) - Road #: 1 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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Willamette & Pacific (Genesee & Wyoming) #1 Caboose. Willamette & Pacific and fellow Genesee & Wyoming stable
mate Portland & Western are operated together (like SP and Cotton Belt) to serve a large portion of Oregon. WPRR picked up this caboose from Union Pacific. Portland & Western locomotives have previously been produced in both HO and N by our friends at Atlas Model Railroad Company. |
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Part #: BS-21110 - Baltimore & Ohio - SBD - Road #: 16631 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose |
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B&O-SBD #16631 Shoving Platform/Transfer Caboose. This caboose is a bit of a mystery. At some point during the CSX era, a former Seaboard System (ex-L&N or Clinchfield) caboose was in need of repainting. It rolled out of the paint shop in this unofficial “Heritage” B&O scheme. No one seems to be taking credit for it but on behalf of railfans and modelers everywhere, we’ll say, “Thanks” to the perpetrators... |
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Part #: BS-21091 - Illinois Terminal - Road #: 804 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-24070 - Chicago & North Western - Road #: 12503 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Chicago & North Western Transfer Cabooses. C&NW built 30 “shack on a flat” style transfer cabooses at their Clinton
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Part #: BS-24071 - Chicago & North Western - Road #: 12512 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style
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Part #: BS-24080 - Alton & Southern - Road #: 7 (yellow, red) - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Alton & Southern Transfer Cabooses. Alton& Southern, a busy terminal railroad in the East St. Louis area, had a number of “shack on a flat” style transfer cabooses built by parent Missouri Pacific. We are presenting two Alton& Southern paint schemes in this run. The first is the yellow and red #7, and the second is red #13937. Alton & Southern switchers have been produced
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Part #: BS-24081 - Alton & Southern - Road #: 13937 (red) - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style
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Part #: BS-24090 - Elgin Joliet & Eastern - Road #: 187 "EJ&E" - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Elgin Joliet & Eastern Transfer Cabooses. EJ&E traced a large arc around Chicago, permitting trunk lines to transfer blocks of cars while avoiding the congested city center. Recently EJ&E was bought by Canadian National. We are presenting two EJ&E paint schemes
in this run. The first is #187 and features the large EJ&E initials, and the second is #195 and features the old “Chicago Outer Belt” logo. Both paint schemes were used concurrently. Several EJ&E locomotive runs have been produced in both scales in recent years by several manufacturers. |
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Part #: BS-24091 - Elgin Joliet & Eastern - Road #: 195 "Chicago Outer Belt" - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style
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Part #: BS-24100 - Pittsburgh & Lake Erie - Road #: 556 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Transfer Cabooses. P&LE had a number of these transfer cabooses built by Despatch Shops to a New York Central design. P&LE was aptly called “The Little Giant” due to their heavy freight traffic. Just 266 miles long, P&LE required a fleet of 25,000 freight cars to keep their customers supplied. That’s 107 cars for every mile of mainline! This road name will be available in 2 road numbers. Several Pittsburgh & Lake Erie locomotive runs have been produced in both scales in recent years by multiple manufacturers. |
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Part #: BS-24110 - Wisconsin & Southern - Road #: X103 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Wisconsin & Southern #X103 Caboose. Wisconsin & Southern picked up this car second hand from Canadian National. It had been built by Grand Trunk Western in the 1970s. Several Wisconsin & Southern locomotive runs have been produced in both scales in recent years by multiple manufacturers. |
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Part #: BS-24120 - Central Michigan - Road #: 1 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Central Michigan #1 Caboose. Central Michigan Railroad’s caboose #1 is also a former Grand Trunk Western car which is
appropriate as CMGN operates on some former GTW routes. Central Michigan locomotives have previously been produced in both HO and N by our friends at Atlas Model Railroad Company. |
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Part #: BS-24130 - Delaware - Lackawanna - Road #: C703 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Delaware-Lackawanna #C703 Caboose. Delaware-Lackawanna picked up this caboose second hand from Conrail. This line is one of America’s most colorful railroads with a roster full of “heritage scheme” locomotives. Delaware-Lackawanna locomotives have previously been produced in HO by Bowser and Atlas and N by Atlas. |
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Part #: BS-24140 - Pennsylvania - Reading Seashore Lines - Road #: 252 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Transfer Cabooses. P-RSL obtained these cars from parent Penn Central. P- RSL served Southern New Jersey and was jointly owned by Pennsylvania Railroad (later Penn Central) and Reading Company. These cars joined the Conrail fleet in 1976. This road name will be available in 2 road numbers. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line locomotives have previously been produced in HO by Bowser and Atlas and N by Atlas. |
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Part #: BS-24150 - Burlington Northern - Road #: 11474 - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Burlington Northern Transfer Caboose. Burlington Northern inherited four transfer cabooses from Great Northern that
were built on the frames of scrapped VO-1000 switchers. At least one of these cars received BN’s green and yellow caboose paint scheme seen here. Note that the prototype cars rode on switcher trucks but for practical reasons, the Bluford Shops releases will be equipped with friction bearing leaf spring caboose trucks. |
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Part #: BS-24160 - Finger Lakes Railway - Road #: 201 (shoving platform) - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style |
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Finger Lakes Railway Cabooses. This curious pair serve different functions on the Finger Lakes Railway. The #201 is a Shoving Platform which gives a crew member a place to observe the right-of-way during long backup moves. The #202 is a radio control receiving unit that is coupled and MU’ed to a locomotive so a train can be switched from the ground. Both cars are occassionaly used on the same
train (the 202 next to the locomotive and the 201 at the other end of the train.) Finger Lakes Railway locomotives have previously been produced in both HO and N by our friends at Atlas Model Railroad Company. |
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Part #: BS-24161 - Finger Lakes Railway - Road #: 202 (R/C receiver car) - Transfer Caboose w/Short Roof - New Body Style
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Part #: BS-25070 - Gulf Mobile & Ohio - Road #: 2973 - Transfer Caboose - With Running Board - New Body Style |
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Gulf Mobile & Ohio Transfer Cabooses. GM&O built 16 “shack on a flat” style transfer cabooses at their loomington,
Illinois shops. Most were lettered as you see here. This road name will be available in 2 road numbers. |
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| Part #: BS-25071 - Gulf Mobile & Ohio - Road #: 2977 - Transfer Caboose - With Running Board - New Body Style |
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Part #: BS-25000 - Undecorated - Road #: n/a - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-25010 - New York Central - Road #: 18060 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
NYC’s Despatch Shops built this group of 150 cabooses begining in 1966. Running boards were still standard equipment at this time. They were painted Century Green with the cigar band logo. They were used all over the 11,000 mile New York Central System.
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Part #: BS-25011 - New York Central - Road #: 18087 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-25020 - Rock Island - Road #: 19120 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
Rock Island began building “shack-on-a-flat” style transfer cabooses as early as 1951. Variations in lettering placement were commonplace so we are presenting 2 variations with this run. After 1956, Rock Island cabooses could be found in either, as RI called it, “light red” which other roads might call caboose red, or “boxcar color” which was a rich brown approaching maroon. Both of these road numbers are in “boxcar color” with gray ladders.
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Part #: BS-25021 - Rock Island - Road #: 19123 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-25030 - Penn Central - Road #: 18096 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
Penn Central inherited New York Central’s transfer caboose fleet in the 1968 merger and continued to build cars with the same general design. In fact, Penn Central would build 350 more transfer cabooses with variations in design evolving over time, to join the ex-NYC cars in service system wide. With Penn Central’s disappearence into Conrail now 36 years behind us, this troubled giant is attracting an increasing band of fans and modelers.
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Part #: BS-25031 - Penn Central - Road #: 18124 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-25040 - Chicago Great Western - Road #: 177 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
CGW built this pair of transfer cabooses in their own shops in 1961. The CGW linked the major terminal cities of Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Ownership of the CGW (these cabooses included) passed to Chicago& North Western in 1968.
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Part #: BS-25041 - Chicago Great Western - Road #: 178 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-25050 - Missouri-Kansas-Texas "red" - Road #: 5 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
Katy’s caboose #5 rolled out of their shops in May of 1961. We are presenting it in red with the “KATY” shield version adopted by the John W. Barriger administration in 1965. Katy’s transfer cabooses could be found in Kansas City, Dallas-Ft. Worth, St. Louis and Katy’s main hub of Dennison, Texas.
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Part #: BS-25060 - Southern - Road #: XC22 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board |
Southern Railway began building “shack-on-a-flat” style transfer cabooses in 1955. In 1960, they began recieving this combination of paint and lettering.
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Part #: BS-25061 - Southern - Road #: XC15 - Transfer Caboose - w/ Running Board
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Part #: BS-23000 Undecorated - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23010 Norfolk & Western (NW) Road #: 518711 - Transfer Caboose |
N&W
built 63 transfer cabooses for themselves at their Roanoke Shops between 1966
and 1968. Cars repainted after 1971 received this paint scheme. Note the
placement of the road numbers varied from car to car and we are replicating this
detail.
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Part #: BS-23011 Norfolk & Western (NW) Road #: 518741 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23020 Monon (MON) Road #: 81551 - Transfer Caboose |
Monon built a trio of transfer cabooses in their Lafayette Shops in 1959. The Monon system map was X-shaped with Chicago and Michigan City legs in the north and Louisville and Indianapolis in the south. The four legs met in Monon, Indiana. Monon served as a bridge carrier for Southern and L&N between Chicago and Louisville.
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Part #: BS-23021 Monon (MON) Road #: 81552 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23030 Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) Road #: 199081 - Transfer Caboose |
ICG
inherited 16 steel transfer cabooses from Gulf Mobile & Ohio in the 1972
merger. For the next six years, cars due for repainting received orange paint
and the dotted-rail logo. Placement of the lettering varied from car to car and
two of these variations are presented in this run. At its peak, ICG was enormous
with 9,500 route miles - 60 more than Union Pacific during the same period.
Their multiple, parallel routes cut a swath from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico
and Chicago west to the Iowa-Nebraska border. After years of selling off many of these
parallel routes, ICG dropped the “Gulf” from their name in 1988 and abandoned
orange for a medium gray.
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Part #: BS-23031 Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) Road #: 199085 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23040 Erie Lackawanna (EL) Road #: T-24 - Transfer Caboose |
EL built 25 transfer cabooses in their Meadville Shops in 1969. EL’s road service cabooses received “C” prefixes on their road numbers so it seems appropriate that these cars received “T” prefixes instead. Erie Lackawanna was born in 1960 with the merger of Erie and Delaware Lackawanna & Western. They became part of Conrail on April 1, 1976.
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Part #: BS-23041 Erie Lackawanna (EL) Road #: T-30 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23050 Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) Road #: 515 - Transfer Caboose |
C&EI built six transfer cabooses beginning in 1966 using the frames from old
gondolas as a base. C&EI ran south out of Chicago, then split into a trio of
mainlines, The eastern-most ran to Evansville, Indiana and a major connection
with the L&N and points south. This route hosted a number of important
Chicago-to-Florida passenger trains. The western-most route headed southwest to
St. Louis. Much of that route was shared with NYC’s Big Four line. The third
mainline ran down the middle of Illinois to points on the southern tip of the state.
This route generated C&EI’s considerable coal traffic. When the C&EI was
later split between Missouri Pacific and Louisville & Nashville (in a deal
not unlike the splitting of Conrail between NS and CSX decades later) four of
these cars (517-520) went to L&N and two (515-516) went to Missouri Pacific.
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Part #: BS-23051 Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) Road #: 520 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23060 Green Bay & Western (GBW) Road #: 102 - Transfer Caboose |
Beginning in the Summer of 1967, Green Bay & Western began rebuilding several wood body cabooses that were well past their prime into new steel bodied transfer cabooses. The GB&W bisected Wisconsin with their mainline from the ports of Kewaunee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River at Winona (on the west bank in Minnesota.) GB&W was merged into a Wisconsin Central subsidiary in 1993 and is now part of Canadian National.
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Part #: BS-23061 Green Bay & Western (GBW) Road #: 104 - Transfer Caboose
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Part #: BS-23070 Chessie-B&O (B&O) Road #: 903051 - Transfer Caboose |
In 1975,
B&O 903051 rolled out of B&O’s Du Bois Shops and into history as the
final caboose built at that august facility. It was built with components from a
retired boxcar. Eventually, B&O assigned it Class C-28 and it would remain
the only member of that class to the end of caboose operations. Since it was one
of a kind, we are producing just one road number.
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Part #: BS-24000 Undecorated - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24010 Conrail (CR) Road #: 18046 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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Conrail Transfer Cabooses. Conrail inherited most of their transfer cabooses from Penn Central who (along with predecessor New York Central) had built them by the hundreds in their own shops, largely from old boxcar components. Conrail had the largest fleet of transfer cabooses in the nation. The two road numbers in this release received this paint sometime in 1978 (two years after the creation of Conrail itself) and received the two-box format consolidated stencils and, since they had 33” wheels, the black and yellow “U-1 inspection dot.” |
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Part #: BS-24011 Conrail (CR) Road #: 18228 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24020 Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) Road #: 4 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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Indiana Harbor Belt Transfer Cabooses. IHB is one of Chicago’s major terminal carriers, shifting blocks of cars from connections on one side of the city to the other. For most of its history, it was controlled by New York Central with a 60% stake (C&NW and MILW split the rest.) Today ownership is split between Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX. While parent NYC (later PC) was building transfer cabooses for themselves in the late 60s and early 70s, they built 20 for the IHB. They were built with Century green paint. This black and orange scheme was adopted in 1983. |
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Part #: BS-24021 Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) Road #: 8 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24030 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) Road #: 75061 “Safety Wears Well” - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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The GTW built for themselves 24 transfer cabooses from old boxcar components. That’s quite a fleet for a road that size! There is a great deal of variety in lettering placement and slogans on this fleet and we are reflecting that in this release with two different slogans. Also caboose Road #: 75061 carries an ACI tag while the other number does not.
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Part #: BS-24031 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) Road #: 75065 “Take Time To Be Safe” - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24040 Amtrak (AMTK) Road #: 14034 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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Amtrak became a major owner of right-of-way during the organizing of Conrail. Passenger traffic was king on Penn Central’s “Northeast Corridor” between Washington D.C. and Boston so turning over ownership of the line to Amtrak seemed to be the best solution. With that, Amtrak assembled a sizeable fleet of maintenance-of-way equipment, including cabooses. Transfer cabooses of NYC/PC ancestry are part of that fleet. We are doing two road numbers for this run and as you can see, they look quite different from each other. This is because no two of the prototypes are lettered alike!
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Part #: BS-24041 Amtrak (AMTK) Road #: 14032 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24050 Kansas City Southern (KCS) Road #: 677 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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KCS had a number of transfer cabooses, built by the line in their own shops. The earliest group is represented with these two road numbers which sport friction bearing trucks, ACI tags, and red conspicuity stripes along the frame. (Later cars had roller bearings, yellow frame stripes and locomotive style all-weather windows.) The Kansas City Southern system of this period linked KC with the Gulf and Dallas with New Orleans. In later years, KCS would acquire, Mid-South, Gateway Western, Gateway Eastern, Texas-Mexican and Mexico’s TFM.
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Part #: BS-24051 Kansas City Southern (KCS) Road #: 682 - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-24060 Great Northern (GN) Road #: X177 “Your Safety Is Up To You” - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof |
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Great Northern built four all-steel transfer cabooses in their St. Cloud Shops in 1967 (just before the shift to Sky Blue paint.) The four cars were built on the frames of old VO-1000 switchers and as a result were the heaviest cabooses on the GN roster! Each received a safety slogan with Road #: X177 “Your Safety Is Up To You” and Road #: X178 “What’s Your Safety Score Today?” represented in this run. While not visible in the above views, the “Safety First” version of the round Rocky The Goat logo does appear on the end splash guards (adjacent to the brake wheel stands.) While the prototype cars wore Type-A switcher trucks, for practical reasons, these models will come with friction bearing leaf spring caboose trucks.
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Part #: BS-24061 Great Northern (GN) Road #: 178 “What’s Your Safety Score Today?” - Transfer Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-21000 Undecorated - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21010 Missouri Pacific (MP) - Road #: 13835 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21011 Missouri Pacific - Road #: 13927 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
Missouri Pacific (MP) [MoPac] developed this caboose design in concert with International Car Company in the summer of 1977. 351 cars were built through early ‘82 in MoPac’s De Soto and Sedalia Shops. Contrary to popular belief, these were not transfer cabooses but were, in fact, built for regular service. Following the merger with Union Pacific and Western Pacific, these cabooses migrated across the greater UP system. MP’s short bay window cabooses could be found with silver, white or red roofs. The two road numbers in this release have silver roofs. |
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Part #: BS-21020 - Union Pacific yellow - Road #: 13737 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Union Pacific (UP) borrowed MoPac short bay window cabooses to evaluate the design for their own fleet. However, in 1982 they inherited the original fleet with the merger of Missouri Pacific. At least one of these cars was repainted in UP yellow for regular service. In recent years, this car was parked on a spur to become a yard office. It remains today in the paint scheme shown here. |
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Part #: BS-21030 Louisville & Nashville [Family Lines] - Road #: 6642 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21031 Louisville & Nashville [Family Lines] - Road #: 6611 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
In 1981, L&N received this group of 50 cabooses from the Fruit Growers Express facility in Alexandria, Virginia. Like the MoPac cars before them, these were intended for regular road service. These were delivered in the then standard “Family Lines” paint scheme with L&N road numbers. |
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Part #: BS-21040 Clinchfield [Family Lines] - Road #: 1107 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21041 Clinchfield [Family Lines] - Road #: 1110 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
Clinchfield (CRR) received six of these cars at the time of the L&N order, this time with “CRR” reporting marks. The Family Lines was not a railroad but rather a marketing image shared by Seaboard Coast Line, L&N, Clinchfield, Georgia, and the two West Point Route roads. The Clinchfield was established by ACL and L&N to operate the leased Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio but was not separately incorporated. Despite that, CRR had their own roster of equipment, employees, and paint schemes. The Clinchfield management ranks were often used as a farm team for ACL (later SCL) and L&N. |
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Part #: BS-21050 Indiana Rail Road [INRD] (ex-Family Lines) - Road #: 16648 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Indiana Rail Road (INRD) began in 1986 as a spin-off of Illinois Central Gulf. INRD purchased a single ex-L&N caboose from CSX to add to its fleet of former ICG wide vision cabooses. INRD expanded greatly since their 1986 creation and now sports a Chicago to Louisville mainline plus branches and a snappy fleet of modern red and white diesel power. |
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Part #: BS-21060 MP - UP MOW Green - Road #: 7501 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21061 MP - UP MOW Green - Road #: 7502 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
As the use of cabooses on mainline freights fell from favor, Union Pacific transferred a squadron of these former MoPac cars to their Maintenance-of-Way fleet. This included renumbering them to the MP 7500 series and in the case of 13 of the cars, a coat of MOW green paint. The steps and trucks remained MoPac red. |
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Part #: BS-22000 Undecorated - Short Body Bay Window Caboose with Short Roof
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Part #: BS-22010 Southern Pacific - Road #: 1 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose with Short Roof
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Southern Pacific also evaluated the MoPac design, then in 1980 they came up with their own variation with a shorter roof. Just one car was built, becoming Southern Pacific’s famous caboose - Road #: 1 or “the One-Spot.” It entered system-wide service at a time when SP was experimenting with an orange, red and gray paint scheme. It would wear this scheme for its entire service life.
In the years after regular operation with cabooses had ended, the One-Spot found a home at the end of Southern Pacific’s fire suppression train.
This car will be equipped with coil spring roller bearing trucks. |
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Item Description
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Stock Checks:
Inventory is a fluid commodity. It changes by the
hour (sometimes by the minute). To retain our pricing structure
we maintain stock levels designed to turnover 6 times each
year. We cannot guarantee stock status till we have an order
in hand. All product is subject to prior sale. If we confirm
that we have it, and, while we are waiting for the order
it sells, you would be upset that we did not hold it.
We used to hold items but learned a VERY EXPENSIVE lesson.
When we held items for customers’ orders, the order
never materialized 80%+ of the time. We lost out on
the orders placed while the item was on hold. Also
we wasted staff time that could have been used to pull actual
orders.
Since we are well known for finding older stock the fact
that it may not be on our shelves at this minute does not
mean we can’t get it. So, as we spell out on our terms
pages, we don’t do it anymore. You may, however, call in and we will tell you if the items
are available and if possible attempt to locate what we
don’t have while you are on the phone. |
| Last Update by: GJC |
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September 20, 2002 - 
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