Description
The AtlasO Master (R) 2-rail O Scale Northeastern-Style Caboose is based on the widely used cars built from the 1920s into the 1940s. In 1924, the Reading Company produced an all-steel caboose, deriving its general design from the 1920 USRA wooden models. This iconic design, commonly called the "NorthEastern Caboose" (or NE Caboose) by railfans, found wide acceptance by many railroads across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, with original owners including the Western Maryland (1936), Lehigh & New England (1937), Lehigh Valley (1939), Pittsburgh & West Virginia (1940), Central Railroad of New Jersey (1942), and Lehigh & Hudson River (1942). These cabooses had long lifetimes, serving through the 1980s across numerous railroads and traveling to many places outside of the Northeast, and are one of the more common exhibits preserved in many railroad museums and operated by tourist railroads today. Features include a detailed injection-molded body, interiors with overhead lighting, separately applied handrails, metal wheels and body-mounted metal knuckle couplers. This car requires 24" radius or larger curves. The Northeastern-Style Caboose is perfect for your late steam and classic-diesel-era train consists. Check out the entire line of AtlasO freight cars.
