A common misconception is that these are transfer cabooses, but that is not the case...they were classed as and used as road cabooses for most of their service life. The 13xxx nunbering signifies mainline road duty and one was even tested by the Union Pacific in the development of their CA-11 caboose which I've never heard called a transfer caboose. International Car proposed the first 50 cars in 1976, saying they could be built at $41,887 a car, MP never actually placed an order with International Car for any cabooses, deciding instead to build the whole roster of "platform-type bay-window cabooses" as they are referred to in the official drawings. These plans were later revised slightly and copied by the UP for their CA-11, 11A, and 12 class cabooses. Home built in MP's Desoto Shops and finished in the Sedelia Shops, they were the last cabooses built by the Missouri Pacific and lasted into the UP merger.

The model is an Overland Models import custom painted by TRAIN DETAIL WORKS

 

To learn more about the Missouri Pacific and it's cabooses, check out the Missouri Pacific Historical Society's site at (MPHS).