Announced Date: |
Nov 2021 |
Released Date: |
Jan 2024 |
Individually Boxed: |
No - 4 to a case
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- Road Name: Southern
- Road Number: 255, 256
- System: 3-Rail
- Product Line: Trainman
- Scale: O Scale
Two road numbers are available per road name.
Features:
- Separately applied see-through running boards, window awnings, window glazing, smoke stack, brake wheels and roof grab irons
- Premium die-cast couplers and friction bearing caboose trucks
- Weighted, detailed plastic underframe
- Interior lighting with on/off control switch on chassis
- Accurate and colorful decoration
- Minimum diameter curve: O-31 (3 rail)
- Some assembly required for undecorated models.
Overview:
The first all-steel cabooses built for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were produced in 1937 by the Magor Car Corporation in Clifton, N.J. Magor, along with St. Louis Car Company and ACF, ultimately built a total of 350 cabooses for the C&O using a similar design. The last were produced in 1949. Through subsequent rebuilding and modernization, many remained in service through the end of regular caboose usage in the 1980s. Cabooses of a similar design were also built for Pere Marquette, Missouri Pacific and Chicago & Eastern Illinois.