Exclusive CP Rail 'Angus Van' Caboose – preserved in the UK – Limited Edition of 50

[RapidoCorbs]

N gauge 'Angus Van'

CP 434677

Between 1972 and 1981, Canadian Pacific’s Angus Shops in Montreal built over 300 modern, wide-vision cabooses or “vans” and thus gained the nickname “Angus Van”. They proved popular with crews and many are still on the road today, as shoving platforms or rider cars in MOW service.

The Angus Van is similar to many other wide-vision cabooses that are commonly seen throughout North America. One of which, CP 434677 has the distinction of being preserved in the UK at the Mangapps Railway museum in Essex, regularly operating with British rolling stock and locomotives.

 

CP 434677 is being produced in a limited edition run of only 50 N gauge models available exclusively via:

https://rapidotrains.co.uk/product/cp-rail-angus-van-as-preserved-rapido-trains-uk-special/

 

[Bucoops]

Ha - knew that would be the Mangapps one. Wrong gauge 😁

[russ p]

I hadn't realised that was so modern I just assumed it had been refurbished 

[The Stationmaster]

Reminds me of a conversation one day in the early days of TOPS when the code for a brakevan had been taken precisely from the SP version of the software - hence the word CAD.   I managed to explain to colleagues andsome of our yard staff that it was a pure American abbreviation of the word 'caboose'.  

 

This immediately prompted question of the plural form of the word and whether it was 'cabooses' or 'cabeese'?   One of the yard staff solved that for us by promptly calling them 'taxi-cabs'