Atlas (Trainman) has announced new C&O Cupola Cabooses

Alaska (ARR)

PROTOTYPE INFORMATION: 

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.

MASTER MODEL FEATURES: 

• 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.

Order Due Date: March 11, 2020

Anticipated Delivery Date: September 2020