Description

3D model of а caboose Canadian National (PSC) Operation LifeSaver CN79823

  About the prototype:
  The caboose made in Pointe St.Charles workshop by order of Canadian National Railways in 1976 as a train escort car. Later it was adapted to meet the needs of Operation LifeSaver.
   Operation Lifesaver is the largest rail safety organization in the United States.It was founded by the Union Pacific Railroad  in the early 1970s. In 1981, Canada’s railway companies joined forces with federal, provincial and municipal governments across the country to come up with a concrete plan to improve rail safety.
    These railcars combine a mobile office, a safety monitoring station, and a mobile advertising billboard. Late model cabooses, to which this railcar belongs, did not have batteries, but had a propane tank and a propane-powered generator.


The caboose is made of metal, glass, wood.
Colors are black, white, red and silver.

Features:

Year built - 1976
Bogies - Barber-Bettendorf T-208
Gauge -  4'8 1/2" (1435мм)
Type AAR   - M930
Class AAR - NE

Dimensions, inches, mm:


Length - 46' 1 1/2" (14060мм)
Height - 15' 3 1/4" (4780мм)
Width - 11' (3360мм)

Rails - 100 lb/yard P-class length - 31'9'' (967.8 cм), approoved American Railway Engineering Association (or AREA) since 1919)