Description
Railroad Short Name: L&N
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
Family Lines was not a railroad company. There was no Family Lines merger. Instead it was a joint marketing brand used by 6 railroads with various levels of interlocking ownership. Seaboard Coast Line owned a controlling interest in Louisville & Nashville. SCL predecessor Atlantic Coast Line and L&N jointly leased the Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio and established the Clinchfield Railroad to operate it. Likewise, ACL and L&N had formed the Georgia Railroad to operate the leased Georgia Railroad & Banking Company. Georgia had a controlling interest in the Atlanta & West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama. In 1974, the 6 companies adopted the Family Lines image which began to appear on freight cars that year (locomotives followed 3 years later.) Equipment painted for Family Lines wore the reporting marks of the owning railroad. In this case, these cabooses belonged to Louisville & Nashville. Note the red and yellow stripes wrap around one end of the caboose and are different lengths on each side.
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