The ready-to-run models will feature:

• Magnetically operating knuckle couplers 

• Metal wheels

• Wire grab irons

• Window “glass”

• Plenty of weight

Kansas City Southern had long been a fan of the bay window caboose concept, having rebuilt a number of single sheathed boxcars into cabooses beginning in 1940. In 1963 KCS went to International Car for this group of Phase 1 cars. Not to be confused with the later stainless steel cabooses, these cars were painted in the Deramus Red scheme.  Note the prototype cars were delivered with rare Rockwell trucks – a style that is not mass produced in any scale. We are substituting roller bearing caboose trucks for this run.

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