Bluford Shops N Bay Window Caboose Reading & Northern “Phase 1”

Description

Railroad Short Name: RBMN

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

Reading & Northern is a 300 mile regional railroad in eastern Pennsylvania that was born from the expansion and reorganization of the Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad in 1990. In fact, the full name of the company is Reading Blue Mountain & Northern (which explains their RBMN reporting marks) but the Blue Mountain is omitted from most of the equipment. These two RBMN cabooses are both Phase I cars but from very different origins. Car 92846 is a former Southern Railway car while car 92847 had been originally built for the Erie.