Rapido Trains 144111 HO Scale Northeastern Style Caboose (Porthole Windows) Penn Central PC 18419 Tweezers 30' Frog and guardrail flangeways

30' Frog and guardrail flangeways set to NMRA standards New points eliminate rivets

The prototype was produced by Maki Seto

Gates automatically lower as train passes by

Opening doors and ice hatches

Rapido Trains 144111 HO Scale Northeastern Style Caboose (Porthole Windows) Penn Central PC 18419 Tweezers 30' Frog and guardrail flangewaysRapido Trains 144111 HO Scale Northeastern Style Caboose (Porthole Windows) Penn Central PC 18419 The popular Northeastern Caboose was originally designed by the Reading Company in the early 1920s. This all steel caboose was based on a proposed design by the USRA, which actually specified wood sheathing. The Reading built 285 cars, spread through several classes. The earliest cars had solid underframes while later cars were equipped with Duryea