Bev-Bel Bay Window Caboose
Bev-Bel
Bay Window Caboose...
Bev-Bel is a company that takes Athearn undecorated
models
and custom paints them. Mostly what you will see are Chessie
schemes
that are not available by any other manufacturer. Bev-Bel
makes every
safety cabin in bay window that I know of. There is one
catch, the
Athearn kit they start with is not any
where near accurate for a Chessie
bay window. You can look at the Athearn Bay window kit
review for
my feelings on the kit. The Bev-Bel paint job is really
nice.
I received one as a gift and am trying hard to improve it without
messing
up the nice paint job. You should pay around $8 for
one. Don't
pay $10. I see lots of them on eBay for $9.99 starting
bids. I have also found
some at train shows. Safety cabooses are great. It is
fun to
collect them all. No other railroad had such a rainbow of cabooses.
Below is a Dean Heacock pic of the real
thing. To
the right and below is my Bev-Bel Bay Window in work. This
caboose has stood in well, but will be retired once a better kit
becomes available. Notice that the
window arrangement on the sides is the biggest
flaw on the Athearn kit. The Bev-Bel white sides though
are very
nicely done. Because the windows on the Athearn kit are so
messed
up, I wouldn't recommend buying this kit if you want accurate
bay window
cabooses. Buy the WrightTrak C26, which will allow you to build
most of the B&O safety cabooses and all of their Careful
Car Handling schemed cars.
