N-SCALE TRANSFER CABOOSE SHORT ROOF "ALTON & SOUTHERN" BLUFORD 24080 ROAD #7

Description: N-SCALE TRANSFER CABOOSE SHORT ROOF "ALTON & SOUTHERN" BLUFORD 24080 ROAD # 7. BRAND NEW UNUSED IN ORIGINAL BOX. SEE PICTURES ABOVE OF THIS ITEM AND PROTOTYPE PHOTO AND DATA BELOW. Bluford Shops N Scale BLU24080 Ready to Run Steel Transfer Caboose, Short Body, Alton & Southern #7 (yellow, red)Stock Number24080BrandBluford ShopsManufacturerBlufordImage Provider's WebsiteLinkBody StyleBluford Caboose TransferPrototype VehicleCaboose, Transfer (Details)Road or Company NameAlton & Southern (Details)Road or Reporting Number7Paint Color(s)Yellow with Aluminum RoofPrint Color(s)WhiteCoupler TypeGeneric Magnetic KnuckleCoupler MountBody-MountWheel TypeChemically Blackened MetalWheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)Model TypeCabooseModel SubtypeTransferModel VarietyTransferPrototype RegionNorth AmericaPrototype EraNA Era II: Late Steam (1901 - 1938)Scale1/160Track GaugeN standard This short body bay window caboose design was developed by International Car and MoPac in the 1970s. Several other railroads used very similar cars. These were assigned to road service and were NOT transfer cabooses. Prototype History: A transfer caboose looks more like a flat car with a shed bolted to the middle of it than it does a standard caboose. It is used in transfer service between rail yards or short switching runs, and as such, lacks sleeping, cooking or restroom facilities. The ends of a transfer caboose are left open, with safety railings surrounding the area between the crew compartment and the end of the car. A recent variation on the transfer caboose is the "pushing" or "shoving" platform. It can be any railcar where a brakeman can safely ride for some distance to help the engineer with visibility at the other end of the train. Flatcars and covered hoppers have been used for this purpose, but often the pushing platform is a caboose that has had its windows covered and welded shut and permanently locked doors. CSX uses former Louisville & Nashville short bay window cabooses and former Conrail waycars as pushing platforms. Road Name History: The 32 mile Alton & Southern is the second large belt and terminal line in the St. Louis area, concentrating on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. This line was assembled in 1913 by a predecessor of Alcoa. Power in the steam era was provided by Mikados, 0-8-0’s and a rare 0-10-0 heavy switcher. Dieselization began in 1947 when the first Alco RS-2’s arrived. The fleet would remain all-Alco until 1969. Because ALS was free of EMD diesels, they did not benefit from the EMD design department in developing paint schemes. That is why their green and yellow paint schemes appear a bit odd compared to their neighbors. These paint schemes were also used on other shortlines owned by Alcoa during the Alco years. In 1966, Alcoa closed their large facility in the area and put the railroad up for sale. Missouri Pacific and Chicago & North Western each bought a 50% stake. Since the sale by Alcoa, the locomotives have been painted in a combination of MoPac "Jenks Blue" and C&NW harvest yellow. The logo has the shape of C&NW's "circle and bar" logo but the circle is an MP style "buzzsaw." Just 5 years later, C&NW faced a cash crunch sold their half to Cotton Belt although that has not been reason enough to change the logo or the paint scheme. Now the ALS is owned entirely by Union Pacific but given its position as a terminal railroad, it is operated independently of the UP system. Alton & Southern now has 16 EMD locomotives (14 of which are switchers), and typically calls 10 crews per shift, 3 shifts per day. Their Gateway Yard sorts around 5,600 cars per day. The Alton and Southern Railway (reporting mark ALS) is a switching railroad in the Greater St. Louis area in Illinois. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad. OverviewThe Alton and Southern Railroad was formed in 1910, and in 1913 it absorbed the Denverside Connecting Railway (founded in 1910), and the Alton and Southern Railway (founded in 1911). The company was operated as a subsidiary of the Aluminum Ore Company, which was itself a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), to serve the Bayer process bauxite-to-alumina refinery at Alorton, Illinois. Alcoa sold the line to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW) in 1968,[1] and it was reorganized as the Alton and Southern Railway. In 1972, CNW's share was sold to the St. Louis Southwestern Railway. In 1982, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) took ownership of the Missouri Pacific share and then became full owner in 1996 with the acquisition of SSW parent Southern Pacific Transportation Company. The Alton and Southern is still a legally separate entity but is wholly owned by UP.

Price: 45 USD

Location: Annandale, Virginia

End Time: 2024-12-21T14:29:38.000Z

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