Steel Transfer Caboose - Ready to Run -- Great Northern #X177 (red, silver, Your Safety Is Up To You Slogan)

Used for transfer runs across town, these cabooses can still be found in service as "shoving platforms," providing a safe place for the conductor to work during reverse movements. Models come ready-to-run with magnetically operating knuckle style couplers, metal detail parts and appropriate trucks for the road name. Great Northern built four all-steel transfer cabooses in their St. Cloud Shops in 1967 (just before the shift to Big Sky Blue). 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.