I bought this beautiful center-cupola caboose on ebay. It did not have a box, and was just described as an undecorated red caboose.
I thought it was a BALTIMORE AND OHIO caboose, but all the pictures I have found of their center cupola cabooses have slanted sides on the cupola.
Can someone help me out?
It caught my eye because it looks a lot like this caboose at the North Carolina Museum Of Transportation. This caboose is different because the carbody sides extend up and become the cupola sides.
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It's got very B&O style ladders, but more so than slanted sides, all the B&O caboose pictures I can fidn have the two cuploa windows together in the center of the cupola, not 2 individual windows per side like that. The awnings over the windows are also very B&O.
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The B&O did have early classes of an I-1 or I-1a caboose with straight coupola sides and slightly inset from the roof. Built in 1913 to 1918 and 1922 and '23 respectively. A total of 438 cars in both classes.
As Randy points out the additional end ladder to roof handrails are somewhat distinctive to the B&O.
BnO_I-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
https://sscale.org/volume-1-no-7-bo-i-1-caboose-laser-kit/
Hope that helps, Ed
Ed: That's it! Thank you.
It turns out it is a B&O I-1 imported by Pro-Custom hobbies.
Randy: I had the same results looking at B&O caboose pictures. I guess photographs of the I-1 are a bit rare.
What a great find. The help is very much appreciated.
I probably spent as much time digging as you - it just screamed B&O to me but I couldn't find the picture to prove it. I supposed it's marked on the bottom by whomever they had make it? Might have found it that way quicker
rrinkerI supposed it's marked on the bottom by whomever they had make it? Might have found it that way quicker
The underframe looks like it was painted with a whole can of flat black spray paint. If there is a tag, it is fully covered.
I am more frustrated with the BrassTrains site. The pictures I posted are of a B&O I1 they sold previously, but when searching their brass archive for B&O I1, there are no matches. Glitch.
I found the pictures with Google.
Thank you again for the effort. It is going to look quite handsome in SGRR paint one day.
Prototype photos
http://www.springmillsdepot.com/i-1prototypephotos.htm
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