WalthersProto HO Wabash streamlined cupola caboose
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $75.98
Manufacturer: Wm. K. Walthers Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218; 414-527-0770; walthers.com
WalthersProto HO Wabash streamlined cupola caboose features:
- All-new model
- As-built or modernized smokejack
- Clear window glazing
- Detailed interior
- Factory-installed wire grab irons and handrails
- Minimum radius, 18”; recommended radius, 22”
- Murphy or diagonal-panel roof, as appropriate
- Proto-Max metal couplers
- Prototype-specific details, including roof, smokejack, and windows
- Rounded- or square-window end doors
- See-through end platforms where applicable
- See-through, etched-metal step treads
- See-through plastic running boards
- Swing-motion trucks with 33” metal wheels
Release date: Winter 2026
Road names: Ann Arbor (red with flag herald and red with yellow ends and compass herald); Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (red with compass herald); Norfolk & Western (blue-and-yellow and American Revolution Bicentennial schemes); and Wabash (brown and red-and-white with flag herald). One to two road numbers per paint scheme.
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