Bluford Shops N Bay Window Caboose Western Pacific “Phase 4”

Description

Railroad Short Name: WP

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

Western Pacific took delivery of this group of International Car Phase IV cabooses in 1973. These were the first new cabooses delivered in caboose red, replacing the much browner mineral red used on earlier orders. It’s worth noting that some subsequent caboose repaints into this scheme had black roofs but we are presenting the original International Car factory red roofs for this run.