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This month (December 2011) Bluford Shops is proud to announce the first road names on their brand new caboose tooling in N scale. This group represents just two of the five all new caboose body styles. The other three will be covered in the next few months. All Bluford Shops cabooses come ready-to-run with magnetically operating
knuckle style couplers, metal detail parts and, roller bearing caboose style leaf spring trucks except where noted. Axle generators and screen window frames will be included in the package.
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The second release of these cabooses consists of Transfer Cabooses. Transfer cabooses were used for cross-town hops between yards. All Bluford Shops cabooses come ready-to-run with magnetically operating knuckle style couplers, metal detail parts and appropriate trucks for the road name.First draft artwork shown, subject to improvement by Bluford's crack development team! |
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Part #: BS-23010 Norfolk & Western (NW) Road #: 518711 - Transfer Caboose |
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N&W
built 63 transfer cabooses for themselves at their Roanoke Shops between 1966
and 1968. Cars repainted after 1971 received this paint scheme. Note the
placement of the road numbers varied from car to car and we are replicating this
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Part #: BS-23011 Norfolk & Western (NW) Road #: 518741 - Transfer Caboose |
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N&W
built 63 transfer cabooses for themselves at their Roanoke Shops between 1966
and 1968. Cars repainted after 1971 received this paint scheme. Note the
placement of the road numbers varied from car to car and we are replicating this
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Part #: BS-23020 Monon (MON) Road #: 81551 - Transfer Caboose |
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Monon built a trio of transfer cabooses in their Lafayette Shops in 1959. The Monon system map was X-shaped with Chicago and Michigan City legs in the north and Louisville and Indianapolis in the south. The four legs met in Monon, Indiana. Monon served as a bridge carrier for Southern and L&N between Chicago and Louisville. . |
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Part #: BS-23021 Monon (MON) Road #: 81552 - Transfer Caboose |
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Monon built a trio of transfer cabooses in their Lafayette Shops in 1959. The Monon system map was X-shaped with Chicago and Michigan City legs in the north and Louisville and Indianapolis in the south. The four legs met in Monon, Indiana. Monon served as a bridge carrier for Southern and L&N between Chicago and Louisville. |
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Part #: BS-23030 Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) Road #: 199081 - Transfer Caboose |
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ICG
inherited 16 steel transfer cabooses from Gulf Mobile & Ohio in the 1972
merger. For the next six years, cars due for repainting received orange paint
and the dotted-rail logo. Placement of the lettering varied from car to car and
two of these variations are presented in this run. At its peak, ICG was enormous
with 9,500 route miles - 60 more than Union Pacific during the same period.
Their multiple, parallel routes cut a swath from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico
and Chicago west to the Iowa-Nebraska border. After years of selling off many of these
parallel routes, ICG dropped the “Gulf” from their name in 1988 and abandoned
orange for a medium gray. 23030 Illinois Central Gulf #199081 $36.95; 23031
Illinois Central Gulf #199085 $36.95. . |
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Part #: BS-23031 Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) Road #: 199085 - Transfer Caboose |
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ICG
inherited 16 steel transfer cabooses from Gulf Mobile & Ohio in the 1972
merger. For the next six years, cars due for repainting received orange paint
and the dotted-rail logo. Placement of the lettering varied from car to car and
two of these variations are presented in this run. At its peak, ICG was enormous
with 9,500 route miles - 60 more than Union Pacific during the same period.
Their multiple, parallel routes cut a swath from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico
and Chicago west to the Iowa-Nebraska border. After years of selling off many of these
parallel routes, ICG dropped the “Gulf” from their name in 1988 and abandoned
orange for a medium gray. |
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Part #: BS-23040 Erie Lackawanna (EL) Road #: T-24 - Transfer Caboose |
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EL built 25 transfer cabooses in their Meadville Shops in 1969. EL’s road service cabooses received “C” prefixes on their road numbers so it seems appropriate that these cars received “T” prefixes instead. Erie Lackawanna was born in 1960 with the merger of Erie and Delaware Lackawanna & Western. They became part of Conrail on April 1, 1976. |
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Part #: BS-23041 Erie Lackawanna (EL) Road #: T-30 - Transfer Caboose |
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EL built 25 transfer cabooses in their Meadville Shops in 1969. EL’s road service cabooses received “C” prefixes on their road numbers so it seems appropriate that these cars received “T” prefixes instead. Erie Lackawanna was born in 1960 with the merger of Erie and Delaware Lackawanna & Western. They became part of Conrail on April 1, 1976. |
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Part #: BS-23050 Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) Road #: 515 - Transfer Caboose |
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C&EI built six transfer cabooses beginning in 1966 using the frames from old
gondolas as a base. C&EI ran south out of Chicago, then split into a trio of
mainlines, The eastern-most ran to Evansville, Indiana and a major connection
with the L&N and points south. This route hosted a number of important
Chicago-to-Florida passenger trains. The western-most route headed southwest to
St. Louis. Much of that route was shared with NYC’s Big Four line. The third
mainline ran down the middle of Illinois to points on the southern tip of the state.
This route generated C&EI’s considerable coal traffic. When the C&EI was
later split between Missouri Pacific and Louisville & Nashville (in a deal
not unlike the splitting of Conrail between NS and CSX decades later) four of
these cars (517-520) went to L&N and two (515-516) went to Missouri Pacific.
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Part #: BS-23051 Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) Road #: 520 - Transfer Caboose |
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C&EI built six transfer cabooses beginning in 1966 using the frames from old
gondolas as a base. C&EI ran south out of Chicago, then split into a trio of
mainlines, The eastern-most ran to Evansville, Indiana and a major connection
with the L&N and points south. This route hosted a number of important
Chicago-to-Florida passenger trains. The western-most route headed southwest to
St. Louis. Much of that route was shared with NYC’s Big Four line. The third
mainline ran down the middle of Illinois to points on the southern tip of the state.
This route generated C&EI’s considerable coal traffic. When the C&EI was
later split between Missouri Pacific and Louisville & Nashville (in a deal
not unlike the splitting of Conrail between NS and CSX decades later) four of
these cars (517-520) went to L&N and two (515-516) went to Missouri Pacific. |
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Part #: BS-23060 Green Bay & Western (GBW) Road #: 102 - Transfer Caboose |
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Beginning in the Summer of 1967, Green Bay & Western began rebuilding several wood body cabooses that were well past their prime into new steel bodied transfer cabooses. The GB&W bisected Wisconsin with their mainline from the ports of Kewaunee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River at Winona (on the west bank in Minnesota.) GB&W was merged into a Wisconsin Central subsidiary in 1993 and is now part of Canadian National. |
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Part #: BS-23061 Green Bay & Western (GBW) Road #: 104 - Transfer Caboose |
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Beginning in the Summer of 1967, Green Bay & Western began rebuilding several wood body cabooses that were well past their prime into new steel bodied transfer cabooses. The GB&W bisected Wisconsin with their mainline from the ports of Kewaunee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River at Winona (on the west bank in Minnesota.) GB&W was merged into a Wisconsin Central subsidiary in 1993 and is now part of Canadian National. |
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Part #: BS-23070 Chessie-B&O (B&O) Road #: 903051 - Transfer Caboose |
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In 1975,
B&O 903051 rolled out of B&O’s Du Bois Shops and into history as the
final caboose built at that august facility. It was built with components from a
retired boxcar. Eventually, B&O assigned it Class C-28 and it would remain
the only member of that class to the end of caboose operations. Since it was one
of a kind, we are producing just one road number. |
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Part #: BS-24010 Conrail (CR) Road #: 18046 - Transfer Caboose |
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Conrail Transfer Cabooses. Conrail inherited most of their transfer cabooses from Penn Central who (along with predecessor New York Central) had built them by the hundreds in their own shops, largely from old boxcar components. Conrail had the largest fleet of transfer cabooses in the nation. The two road numbers in this release received this paint sometime in 1978 (two years after the creation of Conrail itself) and received the two-box format consolidated stencils and, since they had 33” wheels, the black and yellow “U-1 inspection dot.” |
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Part #: BS-24011 Conrail (CR) Road #: 18228 - Transfer Caboose |
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Conrail Transfer Cabooses. Conrail inherited most of their transfer cabooses from Penn Central who (along with predecessor New York Central) had built them by the hundreds in their own shops, largely from old boxcar components. Conrail had the largest fleet of transfer cabooses in the nation. The two road numbers in this release received this paint sometime in 1978 (two years after the creation of Conrail itself) and received the two-box format consolidated stencils and, since they had 33” wheels, the black and yellow “U-1 inspection dot.” |
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Part #: BS-24020 Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) Road #: 4 - Transfer Caboose |
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Indiana Harbor Belt Transfer Cabooses. IHB is one of Chicago’s major terminal carriers, shifting blocks of cars from connections on one side of the city to the other. For most of its history, it was controlled by New York Central with a 60% stake (C&NW and MILW split the rest.) Today ownership is split between Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX. While parent NYC (later PC) was building transfer cabooses for themselves in the late 60s and early 70s, they built 20 for the IHB. They were built with Century green paint. This black and orange scheme was adopted in 1983. |
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Part #: BS-24021 Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) Road #: 8 - Transfer Caboose |
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Indiana Harbor Belt Transfer Cabooses. IHB is one of Chicago’s major terminal carriers, shifting blocks of cars from connections on one side of the city to the other. For most of its history, it was controlled by New York Central with a 60% stake (C&NW and MILW split the rest.) Today ownership is split between Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX. While parent NYC (later PC) was building transfer cabooses for themselves in the late 60s and early 70s, they built 20 for the IHB. They were built with Century green paint. This black and orange scheme was adopted in 1983. |
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Part #: BS-24030 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) Road #: 75061 “Safety Wears Well” - Transfer Caboose |
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Grand Trunk Western Transfer Cabooses. The GTW built for themselves 24 transfer cabooses from old boxcar components. That’s quite a fleet for a road that size! There is a great deal of variety in lettering placement and slogans on this fleet and we are reflecting that in this release with two different slogans. Also caboose Road #: 75061 carries an ACI tag while the other number does not. |
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Part #: BS-24031 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) Road #: 75065 “Take Time To Be Safe” - Transfer Caboose |
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Grand Trunk Western Transfer Cabooses. The GTW built for themselves 24 transfer cabooses from old boxcar components. That’s quite a fleet for a road that size! There is a great deal of variety in lettering placement and slogans on this fleet and we are reflecting that in this release with two different slogans. Also caboose Road #: 75061 carries an ACI tag while the other number does not. |
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Part #: BS-24040 Amtrak (AMTK) Road #: 14034 - Transfer Caboose |
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Amtrak Transfer Cabooses. Amtrak became a major owner of right-of-way during the organizing of Conrail. Passenger traffic was king on Penn Central’s “Northeast Corridor” between Washington D.C. and Boston so turning over ownership of the line to Amtrak seemed to be the best solution. With that, Amtrak assembled a sizeable fleet of maintenance-of-way equipment, including cabooses. Transfer cabooses of NYC/PC ancestry are part of that fleet. We are doing two road numbers for this run and as you can see, they look quite different from each other. This is because no two of the prototypes are lettered alike!
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Part #: BS-24041 Amtrak (AMTK) Road #: 14032 - Transfer Caboose |
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Amtrak Transfer Cabooses. Amtrak became a major owner of right-of-way during the organizing of Conrail. Passenger traffic was king on Penn Central’s “Northeast Corridor” between Washington D.C. and Boston so turning over ownership of the line to Amtrak seemed to be the best solution. With that, Amtrak assembled a sizeable fleet of maintenance-of-way equipment, including cabooses. Transfer cabooses of NYC/PC ancestry are part of that fleet. We are doing two road numbers for this run and as you can see, they look quite different from each other. This is because no two of the prototypes are lettered alike!
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Part #: BS-24050 Kansas City Southern (KCS) Road #: 677 - Transfer Caboose |
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Kansas City Southern Transfer Cabooses. KCS had a number of transfer cabooses, built by the line in their own shops. The earliest group is represented with these two road numbers which sport friction bearing trucks, ACI tags, and red conspicuity stripes along the frame. (Later cars had roller bearings, yellow frame stripes and locomotive style all-weather windows.) The Kansas City Southern system of this period linked KC with the Gulf and Dallas with New Orleans. In later years, KCS would acquire, Mid-South, Gateway Western, Gateway Eastern, Texas-Mexican and Mexico’s TFM.
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Part #: BS-24051 Kansas City Southern (KCS) Road #: 682 - Transfer Caboose |
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Kansas City Southern Transfer Cabooses. KCS had a number of transfer cabooses, built by the line in their own shops. The earliest group is represented with these two road numbers which sport friction bearing trucks, ACI tags, and red conspicuity stripes along the frame. (Later cars had roller bearings, yellow frame stripes and locomotive style all-weather windows.) The Kansas City Southern system of this period linked KC with the Gulf and Dallas with New Orleans. In later years, KCS would acquire, Mid-South, Gateway Western, Gateway Eastern, Texas-Mexican and Mexico’s TFM.
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Part #: BS-24060 Great Northern (GN) Road #: X177 “Your Safety Is Up To You” - Transfer Caboose |
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Great Northern Transfer Caboose. Great Northern built four all-steel transfer cabooses in their St. Cloud Shops in 1967 (just before the shift to Sky Blue paint.) The four cars were built on the frames of old VO-1000 switchers and as a result were the heaviest cabooses on the GN roster! Each received a safety slogan with Road #: X177 “Your Safety Is Up To You” and Road #: X178 “What’s Your Safety Score Today?” represented in this run. While not visible in the above views, the “Safety First” version of the round Rocky The Goat logo does appear on the end splash guards (adjacent to the brake wheel stands.) While the prototype cars wore Type-A switcher trucks, for practical reasons, these models will come with friction bearing leaf spring caboose trucks. |
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Part #: BS-24061 Great Northern (GN) Road #: 178 “What’s Your Safety Score Today?” - Transfer Caboose |
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Great Northern Transfer Caboose. Great Northern built four all-steel transfer cabooses in their St. Cloud Shops in 1967 (just before the shift to Sky Blue paint.) The four cars were built on the frames of old VO-1000 switchers and as a result were the heaviest cabooses on the GN roster! Each received a safety slogan with Road #: X177 “Your Safety Is Up To You” and Road #: X178 “What’s Your Safety Score Today?” represented in this run. While not visible in the above views, the “Safety First” version of the round Rocky The Goat logo does appear on the end splash guards (adjacent to the brake wheel stands.) While the prototype cars wore Type-A switcher trucks, for practical reasons, these models will come with friction bearing leaf spring caboose trucks.
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Part #: BS-21010 Missouri Pacific (MP) - Road #: 13835 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21011 Missouri Pacific - Road #: 13927 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
Missouri Pacific (MP) [MoPac] developed this caboose design in concert with International Car Company in the summer of 1977. 351 cars were built through early ‘82 in MoPac’s De Soto and Sedalia Shops. Contrary to popular belief, these were not transfer cabooses but were, in fact, built for regular service. Following the merger with Union Pacific and Western Pacific, these cabooses migrated across the greater UP system. MP’s short bay window cabooses could be found with silver, white or red roofs. The two road numbers in this release have silver roofs. |
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Part #: BS-21020 - Union Pacific yellow - Road #: 13737 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Union Pacific (UP) borrowed MoPac short bay window cabooses to evaluate the design for their own fleet. However, in 1982 they inherited the original fleet with the merger of Missouri Pacific. At least one of these cars was repainted in UP yellow for regular service. In recent years, this car was parked on a spur to become a yard office. It remains today in the paint scheme shown here. |
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Part #: BS-21030 Louisville & Nashville [Family Lines] - Road #: 6642 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21031 Louisville & Nashville [Family Lines] - Road #: 6611 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
In 1981, L&N received this group of 50 cabooses from the Fruit Growers Express facility in Alexandria, Virginia. Like the MoPac cars before them, these were intended for regular road service. These were delivered in the then standard “Family Lines” paint scheme with L&N road numbers. |
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Part #: BS-21040 Clinchfield [Family Lines] - Road #: 1107 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21041 Clinchfield [Family Lines] - Road #: 1110 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
Clinchfield (CRR) received six of these cars at the time of the L&N order, this time with “CRR” reporting marks. The Family Lines was not a railroad but rather a marketing image shared by Seaboard Coast Line, L&N, Clinchfield, Georgia, and the two West Point Route roads. The Clinchfield was established by ACL and L&N to operate the leased Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio but was not separately incorporated. Despite that, CRR had their own roster of equipment, employees, and paint schemes. The Clinchfield management ranks were often used as a farm team for ACL (later SCL) and L&N. |
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Part #: BS-21050 Indiana Rail Road [INRD] (ex-Family Lines) - Road #: 16648 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Indiana Rail Road (INRD) began in 1986 as a spin-off of Illinois Central Gulf. INRD purchased a single ex-L&N caboose from CSX to add to its fleet of former ICG wide vision cabooses. INRD expanded greatly since their 1986 creation and now sports a Chicago to Louisville mainline plus branches and a snappy fleet of modern red and white diesel power. |
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Part #: BS-21060 MP - UP MOW Green - Road #: 7501 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
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Part #: BS-21061 MP - UP MOW Green - Road #: 7502 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose
As the use of cabooses on mainline freights fell from favor, Union Pacific transferred a squadron of these former MoPac cars to their Maintenance-of-Way fleet. This included renumbering them to the MP 7500 series and in the case of 13 of the cars, a coat of MOW green paint. The steps and trucks remained MoPac red. |
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Part #: BS-22010 Southern Pacific - Road #: 1 - Short Body Bay Window Caboose with Short Roof
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Southern Pacific also evaluated the MoPac design, then in 1980 they came up with their own variation with a shorter roof. Just one car was built, becoming Southern Pacific’s famous caboose - Road #: 1 or “the One-Spot.” It entered system-wide service at a time when SP was experimenting with an orange, red and gray paint scheme. It would wear this scheme for its entire service life.
In the years after regular operation with cabooses had ended, the One-Spot found a home at the end of Southern Pacific’s fire suppression train.
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we maintain stock levels designed to turnover 6 times each
year. We cannot guarantee stock status till we have an order
in hand. All product is subject to prior sale. If we confirm
that we have it, and, while we are waiting for the order
it sells, you would be upset that we did not hold it.
We used to hold items but learned a VERY EXPENSIVE lesson.
When we held items for customers’ orders, the order
never materialized 80%+ of the time. We lost out on
the orders placed while the item was on hold. Also
we wasted staff time that could have been used to pull actual
orders.
Since we are well known for finding older stock the fact
that it may not be on our shelves at this minute does not
mean we can’t get it. So, as we spell out on our terms
pages, we don’t do it anymore. You may, however, call in and we will tell you if the items
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