Bluford Shops N International Car Company Bay Window Caboose Southern “Boxcar Red”

Description

Railroad Short Name: SOU

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

This Southern Railway paint scheme combining boxcar brown and yellow with block style lettering replaced the red and black transition era paint scheme. It was applied to a large majority of the caboose fleet during the 1960s and could be found in service for another decade.