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Prototype history:

Cabooses were used on every freight train until the 1980s, when safety laws requiring the presence of cabooses and full crews were relaxed.  In a bay window caboose, the crew monitoring the train sits in the middle of the car in a section of wall that projects from the side of the caboose.

The windows set into these extended walls resemble architectural bay windows, so the caboose type was named.  This type afforded a better view of the side of the train and eliminated the falling hazard of the cupola. 

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article “Caboose”(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caboose)

Model features:

• Fine end handrails and ladders
• Clear windows
• Caboose trucks
• Separately applied smoke jack and brake wheel
• Fully-assembled and ready to run
• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
• Painted and printed for realistic decoration
• Machined metal wheels
• Weighted for trouble free operation
• Machined metal wheels
• McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Window packaging for easy viewing
• Interior plastic blister carton safely holds model for convenient storage
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