Bluford Shops N Bay Window Caboose CSX “Phase 4”

Description

Railroad Short Name: CSX

N scale models of a family of steel bay window caboose designs developed by International Car Company in the early 1950s. Over the years the design of the bay windows evolved and Bluford Shops is presenting four phases of these designs plus the iconic half-bay window edition. Ladders and running boards will be included on appropriate paint schemes for each version.

Features:

• magnetically operating knuckle couplers
• Fox Valley Models metal wheels
• wire grab irons, window “glass”
• plenty of weight
• Ladders and running boards will be included on appropriate paint schemes for each version

The CSX merger happened in stages with the holding companies for the Chessie System roads and the Family Lines roads combining in 1980 followed by the Family Lines roads combining into Seaboard System in 1983. It was 1986 before locomotives and rolling stock began to appear in CSX colors (at first with their predecessor’s reporting marks.) Old school caboose operations were already waning but a need persisted for a modest fleet that would receive CSX colors. CSX inherited Phase IV bay window cabooses from C&O, B&O and L&N.