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Uncataloged Premier O Scale Southern Bay Window Caboose Announced
November 4, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an exclusive Premier O Scale Southern Bay Window Caboose for M.T.H. Authorized Retailers The Train Loft of Winston-Salem, NC, and Legacy Station of Lilburn, GA. The caboose will be produced in very limited quantities in two different car numbers and is available for order on a first-come, first-served basis, with an anticipated arrival date of December 2022. Item No. 20-91829 Southern Bay Window Caboose Item No. 20-91830 Southern Bay Window Caboose ABOUT THE BAY WINDOW CABOOSE As freight cars grew taller, observing a train from the cupola of a caboose became increasingly difficult. In the wooden car era, another problem with cupola cabooses was sagging roofs. In an effort to solve these problems, the Akron, Canton & Youngstown railroad introduced the bay window caboose in 1923. (In fact, however, bay windows had been used on New York & Harlem Railroad passenger cars as far back as the 1850s, to enable conductors to better anticipate station arrivals.) In 1930 the Baltimore & Ohio became the first railroad to adopt the bay window style as its standard caboose; it never purchased another cupola model. During the same decade, the Milwaukee Road and the Northern Pacific built substantial bay window fleets as well. But it was immediately after World War II that the bay window design became widespread, as car heights increased significantly and cupolas became less and less useful. As with diesels and other modern freight cars, these postwar bay window cabooses were part of the shift away from customized, railroad-specific locos and cars toward standardized designs produced in large quantities on efficient assembly lines. Key builders of bay window cabooses included International Car Company and American Car & Foundry. EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE THRU Legacy Station OR The Train Loft |
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