Description
Pre-order — conditional announcement; delivery date to be announced by Rapido once the project is confirmed for production. A 25% deposit is charged when you order; the balance is due when the item arrives and is ready to ship.
The Rapido 1101001 is an HO scale Squamish-built steel caboose #1851 in PGE's original green-and-yellow scheme of 1968 on the first Squamish-built car.
Pacific Great Eastern's Squamish Shops built the first of these all-steel cabooses in 1968 to replace the road's ageing wooden vans; ten more followed in 1973 in the new British Columbia Railway two-tone green, and a final ten in 1975, for 35 in all. They were the backbone of the BC Rail caboose fleet for three decades, still working north of Prince George — the Takla Loggers, the Fort St. John turn, the Dawson Creek Sub — right up to the CN takeover, and one survives today as a CN Engineering Service crew transporter. First time in plastic.
- Super-detailed underbody with all separate air and brake piping
- Operating marker lights, track light and step lights; fully detailed multi-colour interior with cupola handrails
- See-through etched-metal end platforms and steps; full end detail including uncoupling levers
- Modified conductor's side window on the appropriate later cars; separate factory-installed grab irons
- Super-detailed Barber-Bettendorf caboose trucks with all-wheel pickup; metal semi-scale knuckle couplers at correct height
- Suggested minimum radius 18"