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Uncataloged RailKing O Gauge Western Maryland Extended Vision Caboose Announced
June 6, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an exclusive RailKing O Gauge Western Maryland Extended Vision Caboose for Patrick's Trains in Wheeling, West Virginia. This very limited cabooses will be available in two different car numbers each and is only available for order on a first-come, first-served basis. The anticipated delivery is August 2022. Item No. 30-77373 Western Maryland Extended Vision Caboose Item No. 30-77374 Western Maryland Extended Vision Caboose ABOUT THE EXTENDED VISION CABOOSE Before railroads, "caboose" referred to a small cookhouse on the deck of a sailing ship. Nobody knows for sure, but it was likely the 1850s before the first railroad caboose gave a train crew shelter from the weather. The Civil War-era marked the emergence of boxcar like cabin cars or conductor’s cars with side and perhaps end doors, windows, a heating and cooking stove, bunks, and roof lanterns to mark the end of the train. Management often resisted providing such creature comforts to crews, and it would be well into the 1870s before cabooses were widespread on American trains. And although the cupola, known then as a "lookout" or "observatory," first appeared during the Civil War era, flat-roofed cabooses outnumbered cabin cars with cupolas well into the 1880s. By the early 20th century, however, the cupola caboose had attained its final shape, one it would keep until cabooses became extinct in the 1980s. But while cupola cabooses remained pretty much the same, the freight cars in front of them were changing, becoming ever longer and taller as well. By the end of World War II, taller cars were making it harder and harder for the crewman riding the cupola to do his job: keep an eye on the train ahead. One solution, of course, was the bay window caboose. Another, more popular innovation was the extended vision, or wide vision caboose, which combined the extra width of a bay window with the height advantage of a cupola. Our model depicts the extended vision caboose introduced by the International Car Company in 1953 and produced for two decades, which was rostered by railroads from coast to coast. Like diesels and other modern freight cars, this widely owned caboose was part of the postwar shift away from customized, railroad-specific locos and cars toward standardized designs produced in large quantities on efficient assembly lines. Order directly from: Patrick's Trains |
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M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the Premier O Scale 2-10-4 steam locomotive in two select liveries beginning this Fall. Each of these prototypical schemes will be outfitted with Proto-Sound 3.0 with the Pennsylvania version sporting, for the first time, a quillable steaming whistle. Each livery is available in two cab numbers in very limited quantities. The locomotives should begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in October 2022. Check out each of these offerings HERE. These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. | ||||||
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