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Bluford Shops - 24240 - Caboose, Transfer - Ohio Central System - 553

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N Scale - Bluford Shops - 24240 - Caboose, Transfer - Ohio Central System - 553
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Stock Number24240
Original Retail Price36.95
BrandBluford Shops
ManufacturerBluford
Body StyleBluford Caboose Transfer
Prototype VehicleCaboose, Transfer (Details)
Road or Company NameOhio Central System (Details)
Reporting MarksOHCR
Road or Reporting Number553
Paint Color(s)Maroon with Yellow Lettering
Coupler TypeGeneric Magnetic Knuckle
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
Release Date2015-11-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeCaboose
Model SubtypeTransfer
Model VarietyTransfer
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era II: Late Steam (1901 - 1938)
Scale1/160
Track GaugeN standard



Model Information: This model features: Fox Valley Metal wheels and Wire grabs and cut levers.

This short body bay window caboose design was developed by International Car and MoPac in the 1970s. Several other railroads used very similar cars. These were assigned to road service and were NOT transfer cabooses.
Prototype History:
A transfer caboose looks more like a flat car with a shed bolted to the middle of it than it does a standard caboose. It is used in transfer service between rail yards or short switching runs, and as such, lacks sleeping, cooking or restroom facilities. The ends of a transfer caboose are left open, with safety railings surrounding the area between the crew compartment and the end of the car.

A recent variation on the transfer caboose is the "pushing" or "shoving" platform. It can be any railcar where a brakeman can safely ride for some distance to help the engineer with visibility at the other end of the train. Flatcars and covered hoppers have been used for this purpose, but often the pushing platform is a caboose that has had its windows covered and welded shut and permanently locked doors. CSX uses former Louisville & Nashville short bay window cabooses and former Conrail waycars as pushing platforms.

From Wikipedia
Road Name History:
OHCR began in 1988 as a spin-off from Norfolk Southern of former Wheeling & Lake Erie (the pre-1949 W&LE) from Warwick to Zanesville, Ohio. The principle owner until recently was a medical professional who had bought a steam locomotive and wanted somewhere to run it. He would eventually build up a fleet of ten steamers of Grand Trunk Western, Lake Superior & Ishpeming, Canadian Pacific, Candadian National, Buffalo Creek & Gauley, Southern Wood Preserving Company, Nickel Plate, and Wheeling & Lake Erie ancestry. They successfully ran excursions through Ohio’s Amish communities for years, all the while building up the diesel powered freight business.

In 2008, the entire Ohio Central System was sold to the Genesess & Wyoming shortline group so the maroon, gray and yellow paint schemes are being slowly replaced by G&W’s orange black and yellow. The original owner held onto his steam fleet, the shops where they are serviced and trackage rights to run them but no longer offers regular excursions open to the public.
Brand/Importer Information:
Bluford Shops began in 2007 as a side project of two model railroad industry veterans, Craig Ross and Steve Rodgers. They saw a gap between road names available on N scale locomotives but not available on cabooses. They commissioned special runs of Atlas cabooses in Atlantic Coast Line, Central of Georgia, Monon, Boston & Maine and Southern plus runs on Grand Trunk Western and Central Vermont on the MDC wooden cabooses. While these were in process, they began to develop their first all new tooling project, 86' Auto Parts Boxcars in double door and quad door editions in N scale. By January of 2008, Bluford Shops became a full time venture. Along with additional N scale freight cars and their own tooling for new cabooses, they have brought their own caboose line to HO scale. They also have their popular Cornfields in both HO and N. The future looks bright as they continue to develop new products for your railroad.

The town of Bluford in southern Illinois featured a small yard on Illinois Central's Edgewood Cutoff (currently part of CN.) The yard included a roundhouse, concrete coaling tower (which still stands) and large ice house. Reefer trains running between the Gulf Coast and Chicago were re-iced in Bluford. Things are more quiet now in Bluford with the remaining tracks in the yard used to stage hoppers for mines to the south and store covered hoppers. Intersecting the IC line in Bluford is Southern Railway's (currently NS) line between Louisville and St. Louis. Traffic on this single track line remains relatively heavy.
Item created by: gdm on 2016-02-08 13:04:55. Last edited by gdm on 2021-03-03 17:04:51

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