Bluford Shops N Half-Bay Window Caboose Peoria & Eastern

Description

Railroad Short Name: P&E

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

Peoria & Eastern was a regional subsidiary of the New York Central System. For much of its existence, it was controlled by fellow NYC subsidiary Big Four but well after the Big Four name was retired, the Peoria & Eastern retained a semblance of independence with their own reporting marks and often their full name on freight cars along side that of their parent. This pair of P&E half-bay window cabooses received NYC’s “Road To The Future” motto.