HO Scale C&O Coach-Baggage Combine #458 Tri-Color Paint (BLI9115)

This HO-scale model recreates the Chesapeake and Ohio Coach-Baggage Combine #458 in tri-color paint. As a coach-baggage combine, it combines passenger space with baggage and mail storage in a single car, a configuration used on smaller trains and light branch lines in the later era of passenger service. Typically placed at the front of the consist as head-end equipment, it would lead the train to move mail ahead of the passenger cars.

The model emphasizes realism with precise color and lettering and numerous separately applied details, including handrails and antennas. It features a well-detailed interior that can be lit, rides on an ABS body with an ABS chassis, and includes two operating Kadee couplers. It is compatible with Code 83 and Code 100 track and has an 18-inch minimum operating radius, with thorough underbody detailing and colored interiors matching the prototype.