Uncataloged O Scale Premier Extended Vision Caboose Announced

November 4, 2025 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an exclusive and uncataloged Premier O Scale Extended Vision Caboose in Donald J. Trump livery for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Patrick's Trains of Wheeling, West Virginia. The caboose will be available in two different car numbers, each in very limited quantities available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning in February 2026.

Item No. 20-91877 Donald J. Trump Extended Vision Caboose
Car No. DJ45
Early Order Price: $85.99 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-91878 Donald J. Trump Extended Vision Caboose
Car No. DJ47
Early Order Price: $85.99 (plus freight)
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ABOUT THE PREMIER O SCALE EXTENDED VISION CABOOSE

Before railroads, "caboose" referred to a small cookhouse on the deck of a sailing ship. Nobody knows for sure, but it was likely the 1850s before the first railroad caboose gave a train crew shelter from the weather. The Civil War era marked the emergence of boxcar-like cabin cars or conductor’s cars with side and perhaps end doors, windows, a heating and cooking stove, bunks, and roof lanterns to mark the end of the train.

Management often resisted providing such creature comforts to crews, and it would be well into the 1870s before cabooses were widespread on American trains. And although the cupola, known then as a "lookout" or "observatory," first appeared during the Civil War era, flat-roofed cabooses outnumbered cabin cars with cupolas well into the 1880s. By the early 20th century, however, the cupola caboose had attained its final shape, one it would keep until cabooses became extinct in the 1980s.

But while cupola cabooses remained pretty much the same, the freight cars in front of them were changing, becoming ever longer and taller as well. By the end of World War II, taller cars were making it harder and harder for the crewman riding the cupola to do his job: keep an eye on the train ahead. One solution, of course, was the bay window caboose. Another, more popular innovation was the extended vision, or wide vision caboose, which combined the extra width of a bay window with the height advantage of a cupola. Our model depicts the extended vision caboose introduced by International Car Company in 1953 and produced for two decades, which was rostered by railroads from coast to coast. Like diesels and other modern freight cars, this widely owned caboose was part of the postwar shift away from customized, railroad-specific locos and cars toward standardized designs produced in large quantities on efficient assembly lines.

Order directly from:

Patrick's Trains
142 29th Street
Wheeling, West Virginia 26003
(304) 232-0714
www.patstrains.com
patstrains@aol.com

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These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.

Check out each of these offerings HERE.

These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.