The van on the tail end is the car visitors look at twice, and it is usually the one piece of a train a modeller buys for its own sake rather than to fill a consist. Getting the right body style behind the right railway settles the era of a whole train at a glance.
Rapido accounts for almost everything here in HO. Canadian Pacific is represented by the CP Angus Van in Engineering White, numbers 420982 and 420988, and Canadian National by the HS caboose in faded paint, #79329. The Northeastern-style caboose with porthole windows runs across a long list of American roads — Penn Central green #18404, #18419 and #18421, Rock Island maroon #17601, #17603 and #17604, and Lehigh Valley Black Diamond #95133. Bachmann covers N scale with the 70764 wide-vision caboose in CP Rail 36' lettering, #434109.
Canadian National and Canadian Pacific are the two largest road names in the collection, which suits layouts set anywhere on the Ontario or western Canadian prototype. Narrow gauge and British modellers are not left out: Durango Press offers the HOn3 West Side Lumber caboose kit, and Peco the PC-84 OO scale GWR 10-ton goods van kit from Parkside.
See more Rapido, the wider HO rolling stock range, or our Canadian railways collection. Ships from Oakville, Ontario. Contact us for special orders.
