HO ATH Wide-Vision Caboose, MEC #651
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HO ATH Wide-Vision Caboose, MEC #651

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Athearn - ATH-2441
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ATHEARN WIDE-VISION CABOOSE FEATURES:

  • Fine end handrails and ladders
  • Clear windows
  • Caboose trucks
  • Separately applied smoke jack and brake wheel
  • Body-mounted McHenry® operating scale knuckle couplers
  • Weighted for optimum performance
  • Machined metal wheels with RP25 contours
  • Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
  • Painted and printed for realistic decoration
  • Minimum radius: 15”

Product Specs

Axles
4
Coupler Style
McHenry Scale Knuckle
Era
1971-1990,1991-2009,2010-Present Day
Full Road Name
Maine Central
Minimum Radius
15
Reporting Mark
MEC
Scale
HO
Sub Brand
ATHEARN
Perhaps one of the most recognizable icons of American railroading, the caboose completed the train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were long required for switching and shunting, and to keep a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. In the extended-vision or wide-vision caboose, the sides of the cupola project beyond the side of the car body. Rock Island created some of these by rebuilding some standard cupola cabooses with windowed extensions applied to the sides of the cupola itself, but by far, the greatest number have the entire cupola compartment enlarged. This model was introduced by the International Car Company and saw service on most U.S. railroads. The expanded cupola allowed the crew to see past the top of the taller cars that began to appear after World War II, and also increased the roominess of the cupola area.