Uncataloged O Gauge RailKing Steel Caboose Announced

December 6, 2019 - M.T.H. Electric Trains is producing an exclusive RailKing O Gauge Steel Caboose in Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines livery for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Holly Beach Train Depot in Wildwood, New Jersey. The caboose will be a very limited production run and is slated to arrive in April 2020.

It can be ordered for $59.95 (plus freight) exclusively through M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Holly Beach Train Depot.

Item No. 30-77356 Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Steel Caboose

Holly Beach Train Depot
4712 Pacific Avenue
Wildwood, NJ 08260
609-522-2379
www.hollybeachtraindepot.com
hollybeach.trains@verizon.net

ABOUT THE STEEL CABOOSE

Like most pieces of railroad equipment, this caboose was shaped in part by regulatory requirements — in this case, a proposed Pennsylvania law requiring cabooses on through freights to be 8-wheeled and at least 24’ long. Based on a wood-sheathed 1920 USRA design, this steel caboose was a 1924 Reading Company design that became so widespread in the mid-Atlantic region that railfans dubbed it the Northeastern Caboose.

Besides the Reading, original owners included Western Maryland, Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey and several other lines. Through mergers and acquisitions, these "crummies" eventually found themselves in new paint schemes ranging from Chessie System yellow to Conrail blue. Later in life, many went to second and third owners as far afield as Maine, Ohio, Iowa, and Louisiana.

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