16860 N Northeastern-Style Steel Cupola Caboose, Boston and Maine

Cabooses were one of the last car types to change from mostly wood construction to all-steel construction. It was hard to justify replacing a perfectly good wood-bodied caboose with a safer steel body if it wasn't earning money for the company. Nevertheless, safety concerns and legislation had most wood cars replaced by steel by the 1960s. A few railroads, including some of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe predecessors, used plywood-sheathed cabooses up through the 1970s.

- NMRA profile wheels
- Needle-point axles
- Body-mounted E-Z Mate Mark II couplers