Tangent HO ICC Erie Bay Window Caboose Conrail “1981 Repaint” w/ Lights

Description

Railroad Short Name: CR

Conrail N7D “Blue Repaint 1981+ Era” w/ Interior Lights and Lit FRA Flasher gives 1981+ CR modelers an accurate caboose option.  These models match Conrail’s modifications to the roof and ends.  The roof has been simplified: the walkway has been removed, but the support brackets remain.  The antenna ground plane is also gone by this era, and the cabooses have replacement smoke jacks.  The ends were rebuilt to match the sister N7 ex PC/NYC class and include the installation of the FRA flashing end light.  (Yes, it’s ORANGE per CR practice!)  If you look at the one end, you will even notice the window is gone, replaced by a fuel fill pipe.  This corresponds to the removal of the coal stove and changeover to an oil bunker and CABAN oil heater.  The side marker lights are plated over.  Under the caboose, Conrail replaced the large generator with their standard DAYCO belt drive.  The battery box is also gone.  The trucks have been changed to 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing Caboose Trucks.  The paint scheme features the shorter CR logo with CONRAIL and car number on the side, along with era accurate COTS and U-1 inspection dots.  If you look carefully in the upper right corner, you can spot the former EL car number, carefully recorded in white stencil paint.  The FRA end flasher application, along with these detail and lettering features, combine to accurately execute a 1981+ era Conrail caboose.  For lighting, these Tangent CR 1981+ era cabooses are equipped with “golden” interior lights, mimicking the incandescent bulbs of the real cabooses along with flashing (orange) end FRA lights.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from meticulous field dimensions using real tape measures on two real ERIE ICC cabooses
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme, as appropriate
• Road and Era-specific details for each RTR scheme, including multiple body, roof, underframe detail and truck combinations
• A beautiful Stanray “overhanging” diagonal panel roof
• Accurate step and end tread patterns
• See-through end platform options
• See-through and treadplate step options
• Multiple end door options
• Multiple brake wheel options
• Underframe details to match as-built ICC and later railroad-modified configurations
• Multiple roof configurations for different roof walkway, brackets, antennas options
• Underframe and truck axle drive generator options
• Different end railing/marker light options, based on paint scheme and era
• Two different wire “coupler lift bar” detail options, per prototype application
• Accurate ICC interior, including seating, conductor desk, lockers, electrical cabinet, coal stove, coal bin, toilet closet and more. The interior is accurately painted based on the paint scheme and era
• Full underbody details – brake system with brake rods and piping, release rod, battery charging plug, battery box, generator and belt – all based on the prototype!
• Beautiful side wire curved grab irons and intricate ICC rivet applications
• LED illuminated interior lighting “warm” lights to replicate incandescent bulbs of the prototypes that can be controlled on or off
• LED illuminated corner lanterns/body side marker lights/end marker lights/FRA flashing end lights, all based on prototype era, paint scheme and appropriate research. We do this dirty work for you – you can trust us. And don’t worry, all of these lights can be controlled on or off – on each end – independently
• No complicated decoder. No complicated programming. No complicated electronics. DC/DCC compatible track-powered “no fuss” interior and marker light lighting – simple and easy to operate with included wand
• CNC-machined standard RP25 .110” tread 33” wheels (Yes, semi-scale .088” wheels are available separately!)
• All-New truck: General Steel Casting Corporation “Express” Truck
• Alternate later era truck options includes Tangent’s 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing and 70-Ton Gould Plain-Bearing Caboose Trucks
• Recommended age 14 years and older