ex-WP 627, wood, cupola; ex-Victoria Station cars stored on the ground at Pocatello, without their trucks, in a unique program meant to save space while awaiting their turn through Pocatello's heavy repair car shops. Wreck damage. Camboose as a cook shack was in use in English at least by 1805, when it was used in a New York Chronicle article cited in the New English Dictionary describing a New England shipwreck, which reported that "[Survivor] William Duncan drifted aboard the canboose [sic]. Read more. Items 1 - 35 of 99 Sort By | })(); TYCO's Caboose model is listed throughout the "Brown Box" Era of Purchased by Errol Spangler, the 999197 is on permanent loan to the Feather River Rail Society. More information and pictures are added as WP668s story evolves. Any additions Chicago & North Western Railway received 25 new cabooses from International Car. You may not use my photos for profit and/or as part of, or to sell, a product or service without my consent. Note that the 708-713 and 716-721 built by WP were built on wood under frames. Stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, from December 1986; sold, for scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 25 February 1989. This big, yellow bay window caboose was built in January 1956, part of a group of 35 constructed by the International Railway Car Company of Canton, Ohio, between November 1955 and February 1956 for the Western Pacific Railroad as Nos. Stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, from March 1985. ex-WP 618; wood, cupola; Moss Landing Road. (No.327-04) Carmichael CA in March, 1977, when I was 12. TYCO also did NOT always produced a roadname in both body styles. Related Products. Off-Center Cupola Caboose model in the early 1980s. owned by the Pacific Locomotive Association, WP F-unit 918D surprised us by also coming eastbound on the Niles Canyon Railway, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Built in February 1945 by Mt. Also borrowing the Bobber Caboose shell is Located in Westwood, California. The conductor kept records and handled business from a table or desk in the caboose. [2] In modern Dutch, kombuis is equivalent to galley. SP 1701, then B&L No. Sold in 1959 and used as a Coffee A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. 2 or Indian Valley No. We also have one of the largest collections of cabooses in the country, and we invite you to ride a few of them to experience for yourself what it's operating weight 49,500 lbs. A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. This Caboose looks very similar to TYCO's earlier Hong Kong produced _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); as V&T 51, wood, bay window; Virginia & Truckee Phone: 530-673-6776. Bluford Shops is announcing new N scale models of a family of steel bay window caboose designs developed by International Car Company in the early 1950s. Though few TYCO Caboose models could be considered rare items, a couple examples are rather Cabooses have also become popular for collection by railroad museums and for city parks and other civic uses, such as visitor centers. The collection is held by two departments of the FRRS. Facebook Page. The TYCO Boom Tender Privacy ; [12] Very few cabooses remain in operation today, though they are still used for some local trains where it is convenient to have a brakeman at the end of the train to operate switches, on long reverse movements, and are also used on trains carrying hazardous materials. Donated to Elm Creek School, Elm Creek, Nebraska, September 1989, not delivered until after, November 1990. All rights reserved. Western Pacific Wood Caboose #641. TYCO catalog image, Chessie System Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, November 1985; sold for scrap to David Joseph, Plymouth, Utah, 12 May 1989 . If you scan an analog photo of mine, or if you share a digital photo I took that does not have my photo credit, add something like "Photo by Steve Sloan" directly onto the image. "[4] As the first railroad cabooses were wooden shanties erected on flat cars as early as the 1830s,[5] they would have resembled the cook shack on a ship's deck. Pre-Orders are now open. Removed from service on 15 March 1986. From Cabooses formerly of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Desktop Home | Neither the Boom Tender, nor the Floodlight Car are represented here as both are found in catalogs Stored at Omaha, Nebraska, from March 1985; sold for scrap to, Aaron Ferer and Sons, January 1989. They were often found on stock trains originating in Montana. [citation needed] It is thought to have first been used on the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad in 1923, but is particularly associated with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which built all of its cabooses in this design starting from an experimental model in 1930. As for cabooses, in the early 1970s, two separate orders, for a total of 15 new cabooses, were submitted to International Car Company for cars 466 to 480, which were to be delivered in a new bright red paint scheme with white lettering and safety appliances. Sold to a private individual in Lodi, California, in December, 1984. 1943: Rebuilt by Sacramento Car Shops as a caboose by adding bay windows and end platforms; 1975: Donated by Western Pacific Railroad to KQED for a fund raising auction and purchased by a resident of Salinas, CA, but burned by vandals before the car could be moved; 1975-1983: Burned car sits on a siding in Salinas Regular price $55.00 MTH Premier 20-91667 CSX ( B&O ) Bay Window Caboose BF. Finally, some are coupled to trains for special events, including historical tours. |, Operated by the Feather River Rail Society, a California 501(c)3 Non Profit Organization, 700 Western Pacific Way, P.O. (WP 429 update from Mike Mucklin, via email on October 7, 2008). Supposedly part of restaurant ex-SP depot. rebuilt into cabooses in 1943. same shell most familiar as a Life-Like offering. Caboose. WP668 Caboose Story - WP668 is a historic Western Pacific Railroad caboose in San Jose, California 2020: WP668 Caboose in San Jose, California. Note 1: Commonly referred to as the "Gould Standard" caboose design due to their similarity in general design with cabooses on other George Jay Gould owned railroads, in particular, the Denver and Rio Grande. the most rare of TYCO pieces to surface among collectors. SOUTHERN PACIFIC STOCK CAR #163 Built: 1890s, possibly by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad's shops in Nevada Donated: 1960 by Southern Pacific UNION PACIFIC CABOOSE #2117 Built: 1881 Donated: 1952 by Union Pacific WESTERN PACIFIC CABOOSE #754 Built: 1910 by Haskell and Barker Donated: 1956 by Western Pacific info@wplives.org, Copyright 2023 Feather River Rail Society. The Historical/Archive Department manages paperwork, photographs and other archive material. (H). Moving it cost almost as much as the purchase itself. Please contact me regarding this listing. logo, but letters the Caboose for ICGproviding the model with an identity crisis of sorts. ), Illinois Central Gulf Erie Railroad Caboose #N-3366 . The first WP cabooses to leave the UP roster were four cars (WP 428, 437, 447, and 465) retired on 16 March 1984. The most commonly seen types are: The most common caboose form in American railroad practice has a small windowed projection on the roof, called the cupola. On the West Coast, the Milwaukee Road and the Northern Pacific Railway used these cars, converting over 900 roof top cabooses to bay windows in the late 1930s. Taken from the Tower Bridge, looking down the Capitol Mall, Scan from a print. Email: caboose@chaffee.net. Sold on 2 May 1989. It became Stockton Terminal & Eastern 1001, went to WP in 1968 becoming WP 608. [10] The ETD also detects movement of the train upon start-up and radios this information to the engineers so they know all of the slack is out of the couplings and additional power could be applied. The letter-suffix stock number is "327H" for this model. Stored at Stockton, California, from June 1988. Missouri Pacific Caboose #1238 . Stored at Stockton, California, from March 1985; sold for, scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 30 June 1989. 740-376-4777. Wabash Cannonball Caboose is a prototype or was a regular production model is not known, however it must be considered among At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Both of TYCO's Caboose models have returned since the company left the HO-scale model train Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, September 1985; sold on 22 July 1988 to a private individual; displayed at Train Mountain Park, Chiloquin, Oregon. One was scrapped after an accident in Kentucky. They also had a double-latching door, to prevent accidental discharge of hot coals caused by the rocking motion of the caboose. Sold as D&RG No. This Caboose is a center-cupola "New England" style model. (No.327-S), Pennsylvania numbered 15599, was one of 24 units in WP Lot No. Returned to lessor, U. S. Trust, 10 April 1987. Other uses for the caboose include "special" trains, where the train is involved in some sort of railway maintenance; as part of survey trains that inspect remote rail lines after natural disasters to check for damage;[citation needed] or in protecting the movement of nuclear material within the United States. Those last six cabooses built for WP in 1980 were almost identical to an oreder for SP C-50-9 cabooses, numbered as SP 4700-4774, also built by Paccar in 1980 as SP's last cabooses. (WP 429 was reported in August 1984 as having been painted yellow; a description from the car's current owner in Oklahoma states that the car, when purchased, was painted red with a white roof.) Stencilled "SPECIAL CABOOSE". The Western Depot. (No.327-98), Midnight Special always remember. Painted yellow, June 1984. This collection of images is a work in progress. railings on the ends. from trains after 1993. In the extended-vision or wide-vision caboose, the sides of the cupola project beyond the side of the car body. Donated to Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista Junction, California, 2 March 1989 (along with UP caboose 25732). Sold for scrap, to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 27 February 1989. 1916: Originally built by Pullman Company as an outside braced boxcar, 1943: Rebuilt by Sacramento Car Shops as a caboose by adding bay windows and end platforms, 1975: Donated by Western Pacific Railroad to KQED for a fund raising auction and purchased by a resident of Salinas, CA, but burned by vandals before the car could be moved, 1975-1983: Burned car sits on a siding in Salinas, 1983: Purchased by Sam and Laura Jenkinsen to be restored as an office for their contracting business, February 2000: Donated to the PLA for preservation, In service while undergoing restoration, Brightside, CA. It sits there today and I've been a WP fan Shark and Caboose used a paint scheme similar to one used by the Wabash for its early diesel locos. Burlington Northern Items 1 - 35 of 385 Sort By Unknown Film Camera Likely an Argus C-44: Shot on Plus-X and Printed on Luminos RD #3 paper. Check . Always check the underframe of any odd looking model, but remember that underframe are inter-changable Our Western Pacific 2001 28. Sold for scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 27 February 1989. We will add images as time allows and images are added to the collection. google_ad_height = 90; ThisICG Caboose features an orange roof and the correct version of the ICG logo. Caboose was acquired in a Museum equipment trade between the FRRS and the BAERA in May 2005. Additionally, Monon Railroad had a unique change to the extended-vision cabooses. One day late in the summer of 1863 I received orders to give my caboose to the conductor of a construction train and take an empty boxcar to use as a caboose. The Western Pacific Caboose List Where there are images available, links have been provided. and give a general timeframe for reference regarding availability. Caboose is steel center cupola, Model CA-10. This Marker is at or near this postal address: 700 Western Pacific Way, Portola CA 96122, United States of America. All photos are used with permission. Donated to Chamber of Commerce, Qunicy, California, 12 June 1987. The surviving cars are at the Indiana Transportation Museum (operational), the Indiana Railway Museum (operational), the Kentucky Railway Museum (fire damaged), and the Bluegrass Railroad Museum (unrestored but serviceable). Nowadays, they are generally only used on rail maintenance or hazardous materials trains, as a platform for crew on industrial spur lines when it is required to make long reverse movements, or on heritage and tourist railroads. Generally, the IHC Caboose models will carry Yugoslovia or Slovenia markings windows other than on the bays. Fully restored by American Railcar in Marmaduke, Arkansas, and as of April 2016, is being used as the principal office for Main Street Paragould in Paragould, Arkansas. THE WESTERN PACIFIC Headlight is the Feather River Rail Society's journal of WP history and includes articles of interest for modelers and those wishing to know more of the historical aspects of the Western Pacific and subsidiary roads. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles . Stored at Omaha, Nebraska, from February 1984. 426-460. (No.327-01), The Royal Blue The caboose was then lowered onto the truck and pushed up Some conductors preferred to have the cupola toward the front, others liked it toward the rear of the train, and some just did not care. It's not enough to say "Photo by Steve Sloan" in the text caption. Stored at Omaha, Nebraska, from December 1985. Reportedly: (According to good sources, including Strapac's fantastic WP Compendium book) built by EMC in 1940, as UP 1001, builder number 1000. This is thesecond and most common of the TYCO Chattanooga Caboose models. [citation needed]. Cabooses provide shelter for the crew at the end of a train, formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. Western Pacific Caboose #484 & Marker. There were three different ones (orange stripes, orange staggered WP, and new image). enjoys a rather brief existence in a limited number of roadnames found mostly in the mid- to late-1970s. Missouri Pacific Caboose #1238. Removed from service on 14 February 1989 at North Platte, Nebraska. Stored at Stockton, California, from August 1984. [7] The caboose provided the train crew with a shelter at the rear of the train. WP 447 and 465 were sold for scrap. (No.327-N) Rock Island created some of these by rebuilding some standard cupola cabooses with windowed extensions applied to the sides of the cupola itself, but by far, the greatest number have the entire cupola compartment enlarged. of 327-03. ", Eugene continued, "I should note that the passengers were having dinner and the engineer on 608 was so gentle that no one was even aware we had been coupled on to and were moving. TCP-052 Caboose Red TCP-053 Tuscan Red TCP-054 Pullman Green TCP-055 SOO Line Red TCP-056 Conrail Blue TCP-057 Northern Pacific Dark Green . (No.) Lee Hower wrote (on March 26, 2010), "NW2 608 had the unfortunate distinction of being the switcher that pulled out and assembled the last eastbound California Zephyr on on March 21, 1970. The addition of the cupola, a lookout post atop the car, was introduced in 1863.[9]. acquisition donated by Union Pacific. (No.) Built by Paccar (International Car Corp.) in March 1980. TYCO's Floodlight Car. Cabooses of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum (*Clickable links open in a new window*) ATSF 999197 Built in March 1949 for the Santa Fe Railroad. South of San Jose. MTH 30-77301 Chicago North Western Caboose 11006. Wrecked on 8 July 1984 at Pittsburg, California. Repainted freight car red. WP 486 was the last WP car in service, retired in April 1993. The above the roadnumber 156. All others were built on steel under frames. Email: info@westerndepot.com. S. Roger Kirkpatrick, 927 Colegate Drive, Marietta, OH 45750-1504, 740-374-6732, fax: Shop Online | (No.327-13) Caboose is slated to be cleaned up and placed into service as the Operating Department Supervisor's office.More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for WP 483, More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for WP 484. TYCO's Burlington Northern Caboose is solid green in color with white lettering and carries Donated to the City Of Elko, Nevada, October 1984. Baltimore & Ohio Nine cars were retired during 1985; three (WP 445, 449, 463) were donated for preservation and six (WP 444, 450, 456, 472, 475, 479) were sold for scrap. (Located in downtown Portola) More information HERE! Flinders, and an. The Kansas City Southern Railway was unique in that it bought cabooses with a stainless steel car body, and so was not obliged to paint them. Purchased by Errol Spangler, the 999197 is on permanent loan to the Feather River Rail Society.More information HERE! BNSF also maintains a fleet of former wide-vision cabooses for a similar purpose, and in 2013 began repainting some of them in heritage paint schemes of BNSF's predecessor railroads. Retired in 1956 with the arrival of the 426 series bay window cabooses which were permitted to operate up to 79 mph. All images are provided for personal reference purposes only. is a December 1955 Mantua ad promoting the then-new Caboose. Shop Online | This caboose is part of the Caboose train that runs every weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day and Santa Trains in December./caboosepages/wp428.htmlAudio Tour Page for WP 428, Built in May 1980 by International Car Co., Kenton OH. WP Equipment & Operations Western Pacific Equipment and Infrastructure - Rosters and Reference Photos This collection of images is a work in progress. that comes with the Crane features the shell for the Bobber Caboose. Technology eventually advanced to a point where the railroads, in an effort to save money by reducing crew members, stated that cabooses were unnecessary. Besides the IHC examples of the TYCO Caboose models, Pemco produced a clone of the Streamline (No.327-17) Particularly, it was built in Japan in 1962 and is used as an inspection car by the Philippine National Police.[17]. Stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, from March 1985; sold for, scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 27 February 1989. Train. Roundhouse 85809 HO Western Pacific 3 Window Standard Wood Caboose # 722 $16.14 Was: $18.99 $11.70 shipping Roundhouse HO #1009 34' Drover Caboose Gorre & Daphetid #9 (3) $5.00 0 bids $10.95 shipping 6d 11h Roundhouse #3421 HO Built Old Timer Caboose-Santa Fe #96 w/box-VGC $8.99 $6.78 shipping roundhouse ho scale maintenance work car 206980 $25.00 If you have a photo of a captive WP info@wplives.org, Copyright 2023 Feather River Rail Society. is noguarantee regarding the ability to match up a loco with a Caboose of the same roadname. TYCO catalog image, Illinois Central Gulf CN -Via (not pictured) Western Pacific (WP) and Sacramento Northern (SN) outside braced wood bay window caboose in N Scale. For longer trips, the caboose provided minimal living quarters, and was frequently personalized and decorated with pictures and posters. ICGCaboose features an orange roofline. All Rights Reserved. [10] An ETD could be attached to the rear of the train to detect the train's air brake pressure and report any problems to the locomotive by telemetry. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Retired in 1956 with the arrival of the 426 series bay window cabooses which were permitted to operate up to 79 mph. CSX uses former Louisville & Nashville short bay window cabooses and former Conrail waycars as pushing platforms. Three wreck damaged cars (WP 427, 434, and 436) were also retired during 1984, but remained stored at Pocatello, Idaho, to be joined over the following three years by 16 other WP cabooses. The Feather River Rail Society holds one of North America's largest collections of archives, photos and artifacts dedicated to a TYCO's "Midnight Special" All-Time Western Pacific Wood and Composite Caboose Roster, Desktop Home | /* TYCO Brown Box 728x90 */ The '80s Johnson Wax promotional train set included a red Johnson Wax Caboose that appears to be the Sold for scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 30 June 1989. Purchased by Bob Lindley, April 1994, 01414 is on permanent loan. Early examples of the Streamline Off-Center Cupola Caboose feature metal "U"-shaped In 1898, he wrote: During the '60s I was a conductor on the C&NW. Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, March 1984; sold for scrap to General Metals, 17 April 1987. This Caboose was a Streamline Off-Center Cupola model and was sold in Canada in the mid A popular color for cabooses was green, some shade of which could be found on roads such as the New York Central and successor Penn Central, Northern Pacific, Lehigh Valley, Indiana Harbor Belt, Reading, Rutland, and Missouri-Kansas-Texas. Stored on ground, without trucks; at Pocatello, Idaho, from August 1984; sold for scrap to General Metals, March 1987. My parents bought this caboose from the Purdy Co. scrap yard in Lincoln, CA, and moved it to our yard in Carmichael CA in March, 1977, when I was 12. 334 was retired in October 1952, but operated on several fan trips in 1956, making her the last steam locomotive on the WP. Cabeese that were once owned by WP but later operated by SN are shown in this table under their Built by the Western Pacific from a boxcar in 1943.More information HERE! The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) in Portola, California, known as the Portola Railroad Museum until January 1, 2006, is a heritage railroad and archives that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment and preserves documents, photos and information.