Bluford Shops N International Car Company Bay Window Caboose Phase 2 Pittsburgh & Lake Erie

Description

Railroad Short Name: P&LE

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

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie took delivery of these Phase II bay window cabooses in 1960 in this bc red paint scheme despite the fact that parent New York Central System had adopted their Century Green colors and cigar band logo three years before. Had they been built in NYC’s Despatch Shops, they most certainly would have been green but P&LE ordered these cars from International Car and specified the old colors.