Bluford Shops N International Car Company Half Bay Window Caboose Toledo Peoria & Western

Description

Railroad Short Name: TP&W

N scale models of a family of steel bay window caboose designs developed by International Car Company in the early 1950s. Over the years the design of the bay windows evolved and Bluford Shops is presenting four phases of these designs plus the iconic half-bay window edition. Ladders and running boards will be included on appropriate paint schemes for each version.

Features:

• magnetically operating knuckle couplers
• Fox Valley Models metal wheels
• wire grab irons, window “glass”
• plenty of weight
• Ladders and running boards will be included on appropriate paint schemes for each version

Toledo Peoria & Western was unrelated to NYC but also adopted the half-bay window design for some of their cabooses. Two of these are represented in this run. Both wear TP&W’s red/orange used on their locomotives with white racing stripes. The 508’s road number uses the speed-block lettering style while the 509 has a larger gothic road number plus ACI tags.