The first all-steel cabooses built for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were produced in 1937 by the Magor Car Corporation in Clifton, N.J. Magor, along with St. Louis Car Company and ACF, ultimately built a total of 350 cabooses for the C&O using a similar design. The last were produced in 1949. Through subsequent rebuilding and modernization, many remained in service through the end of regular caboose usage in the 1980s. Cabooses of a similar design were also built for Pere Marquette, Missouri Pacific and Chicago & Eastern Illinois.

Features Include:

• Separately applied see-through running boards, window awnings, window glazing, smoke stack, brake wheels and roof grab irons
• Premium die-cast couplers and friction bearing caboose trucks
• Weighted, detailed plastic underframe
• Interior lighting with on/off control switch on chassis
• 2-Rail cars feature 33" scale wheels and body-mounted scale couplers
• Accurate and colorful decoration
• Minimum diameter curve: O-31 (3 rail)
• Minimum radius curve: 24" (2 rail)
• Some assembly required for undecorated models.

Two road numbers are available per road name.

Reservations Due By: June 6, 2017

Expected Release: December 2017

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