Tangent Scale Models HO 60717-01 Erie ICC Bay Window Caboose Reading Blue Mountain & Northern RBMN #92847

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from meticulous field dimensions using real tape measures on two real ERIE ICC cabooses
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
  
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
  
• Genuine Kadee scale couplers
  
• “Near-scale” draft gear box
  
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme, as appropriate
  
• Road and Era-specific details for each RTR scheme, including multiple body, roof, underframe detail and truck combinations
  
• A beautiful Stanray “overhanging” diagonal panel roof
  
• Accurate step and end tread patterns
  
• See-through end platform options
  
• See-through and treadplate step options
  
• Multiple end door options
  
• Multiple brake wheel options
  
• Underframe details to match as-built ICC and later railroad-modified configurations
  
• Multiple roof configurations for different roof walkway, brackets, antennas options
  
• Underframe and truck axle drive generator options
  
• Different end railing/marker light options, based on paint scheme and era
  
• Two different wire “coupler lift bar” detail options, per prototype application
  
• Accurate ICC interior, including seating, conductor desk, lockers, electrical cabinet, coal stove, coal bin, toilet closet and more. The interior is accurately painted based on the paint scheme and era
  
• Full underbody details – brake system with brake rods and piping, release rod, battery charging plug, battery box, generator and belt – all based on the prototype
  
• Beautiful side wire curved grab irons and intricate ICC rivet applications
  
• LED illuminated interior lighting “warm” lights to replicate incandescent bulbs of the prototypes that can be controlled on or off
  
• LED illuminated corner lanterns/body side marker lights/end marker lights/FRA flashing end lights, all based on prototype era, paint scheme and appropriate research. All of these lights can be controlled on or off – on each end – independently
  
• No complicated decoder. No complicated programming. No complicated electronics. DC/DCC compatible track-powered “no fuss” interior and marker light lighting – simple and easy to operate with included wand
  
• CNC-machined standard RP25 .110” tread 33” wheels (Yes, semi-scale .088” wheels are available separately!)
  
• All-New truck: General Steel Casting Corporation “Express” Truck
  
• Alternate later era truck options includes Tangent’s 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing and 70-Ton Gould Plain-Bearing Caboose Trucks
  
• Recommended age 14 years and older

Prototype Information:

By 1953, the Erie Railroad served 6 states, with over 2,300 miles of track. ERIE certainly lived up to one of its slogans: “Serving the Heart of Industrial America” with rails from New York to Chicago. The Erie Railroad had previously relied on its Dunmore, Pennsylvania shops to build its steel caboose fleet, with both riveted and welded versions of cupola cabooses between 1941 and 1946. By 1952, ERIE wanted a bay window style caboose. Even though the Dunmore Shops would build one prototype sample, ERIE pivoted the design and production to online customer International Car Corporation. Kenton, Ohio-based ICC used its design, engineering and construction knowledge to create these 50 modern, streamlined, all-steel bay window caboose cars. ERIE was the first Class One Railroad to receive this new style of “bay window” caboose from ICC.

The Erie Railroad’s 50 new cabooses were delivered in stunning safety red paint with black roofs and underframe. They were modern rolling offices complete with amenities like electricity, lights, radio communication, bunks, a conductor desk, seating and an electrical generator. Make no mistake about it – the new ERIE cabooses were destined for their mainline trains. These new cabooses featured ICC’s riveted construction, roof-top walkways and rode on repurposed General Steel Casting Corporation “Express” trucks. With the underframe showing off a low-mounted generator, battery box and 6 foot axle spacing on the trucks, these mainline cabooses have a distinctive look on the Erie, a.k.a. “The Heavy Duty Railroad.”

Our Tangent Erie Railroad International Car Corporation Bay Window Caboose System covers the details, bodies and nuances of the 1953 through 1980s caboose eras on these railroads:
ERIE 301-350 (1953-1960)
…to EL 301-350 (1960-1976)
…to CR 21100-21146 (1976-1988+)
…to D&H 35805-35807 (1976-1984)