(No.327-D) the PEMCO Caboose, click on the image of the Santa Fe PEMCO Caboose and a new browser window will open with details and pictures The Western Pacific Caboose List Where there are images available, links have been provided. 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. Western Pacific Wood Caboose #641. IHC (International Hobby Corp.) is the current owner of certain molds for Stored at Omaha, Nebraska, from December 1985. A transfer caboose looks more like a flat car with a shed bolted to the middle of it than it does a standard caboose. 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. (No.327-22), Silver Streak Just whenwas that famous TYCO Caboose first released? IHC has offered this Caboose in its own line since TYCO's departure Cabooses are non-revenue equipment and were often improvised or retained well beyond the normal lifetime of a freight car. field in the early 1990s under IHC's name. Creek Road, Wood, bay window; Norman Holmes, Aspen Drive, Wood, outside braced, Ponderosa Ranch, 89451, Rt 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. Wabash Cannonball Displayed at California Railway Museum, Rio Vista Junction, California. The page was last updated on December 30, 2016. WP668 was originally built as a boxcar in 1916. International Car Bay Window Caboose Phase 4 - Ready to Run Western Pacific 475 (As-Delivered 1973, red, white) - N-Scale $39.95 $31.89 Bluford # blu44195 Add To Cart Wish List 60' Flat Car Western Pacific #1847 N Scale Model Train Freight Car $29.95 $23.59 * currently unavailable Atlas # atl50003945 Pre-Order Wish List This list was compiled by Roger Kirkpatrick, the net's guru of surviving cabeese. $3099 Save $6. : 3226, 3575 . Athearn N ATH12093 30' 3-Window Caboose Western Pacific WP #727 MODEL FEATURES: Fully assembled and ready for your layout Molded truss rods with turnbuckles (as appropriate) Clear window glazing Body-mounted McHenry knuckle spring couplers. WP 486 was the last WP car in service, retired in April 1993. SKU. Older freight cars had plain bearings with hotboxes for crews to spot overheating as freight cars replaced these with roller bearings, there was also less need for cabooses to monitor them. WP668 is a historic Western Pacific Railroad caboose being restored by Katy Dickinson and John Plocher, a private family in San Jose, California, USA. Western Pacific. All-Time Western Pacific Wood and Composite Caboose Roster, Desktop Home | Employed as "shoving platforms" at the rear of local freight trains which must perform long reverse moves or heavy switching, these are generally rebuilt bay-window cabooses with their cabin doors welded shut (leaving their crews to work from the rear platform). length 37' 0" overall. Sold for scrap, to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 27 February 1989. Regular price $35.00 MTH 30-20520a Union Pacific (#Spirit) Bay Window Caboose. too. The Story of Western Pacific Caboose 668, WP668 crane lifts caboose into backyard webcam. Three cars (WP 454, 474, 477) were retired in early 1986, leaving 40 former WP cabooses on UP's roster. Painted yellow, June 1984. They also had a double-latching door, to prevent accidental discharge of hot coals caused by the rocking motion of the caboose. This practice of not producing a matching caboose for a loco is typical of many model railroading manufacturers and not just operating weight 49,500 lbs. WP668 is a historic Western Pacific Railroad caboose in San Jose, California. Caboose. People download photos off the Internet/Social Media platform and whatever is in the text does not stick to the photo. engine, Owned by the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers, Steel, bay window, no markings; Olney Land & arrives with the Steel Hauler train set of 1981. (No.327-19), Rock Island (No.327-03) Additionally, Monon Railroad had a unique change to the extended-vision cabooses. Includes Rail King and Premier Cabooses MTH 30-77092 Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) Woodsided Caboose - Used. The use of drover's cars on the Northern Pacific Railway, for example, lasted until the Burlington Northern Railroad merger of 1970. Cabeese that were once owned by WP but later operated by SN are shown in this table under their SN number. Repainted, freight car red. The differences included that the WP cabooses had All others had either been donated for preservation (12 cars) The Feather River Rail Society holds one of North America's largest collections of archives, photos and artifacts dedicated to a On trains not fitted with continuous brakes, brake vans provided a supplementary braking system, and they helped keep chain couplings taut. Mobile Home | Donated to California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California, 3 July 1986, delivered in September 1986. Distant dispatchers controlled switches, eliminating the need to manually throw switches after trains had passed. ushered in an entirely new era of Diesel Locomotive technology as it was the first turbocharged locomotive in America. 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. this matching caboose model. The year's provided do represent when a Caboose appeared in a TYCO catalog This created a unique look for their small fleet. Roundhouse 11723 HO, 3 Window Standard Wood Caboose, Western Pacific, WP, 724. House. ex-WP 698; wood bay window; Napa Valley Wine Athearn Roundhouse HO 30 3 Window Caboose Union Pacific "Yellow" $ 30.00 Select options; Athearn Roundhouse HO 30 3 Window Caboose Western Pacific $ 30.00 Select options; Athearn Roundhouse HO Bay Window Caboose Erie $ 28.00 Select options; Athearn Roundhouse HO Bay Window Caboose Frisco Large railroads also use cabooses as "shoving platforms" or in switching service where it is convenient to have crew at the rear of the train. 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. 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. Over the years the design of the bay windows evolved and Bluford Shops is presenting four phases of these designs plus the iconic half-bay window edition. More . All images are provided for personal reference purposes only. N Scale Bay Window Cabooses: (left to right, front to back) Santa Fe Phase 1, Conrail giant logo, Southern FGE-built, Route Rock white, Norfolk Southern - Southern Rwy heritage, Santa Fe half bay window, New York Central oxide red version 2. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); I deserve credit for my work. Wrecked on 8 July 1984 at Pittsburg, California. and eighteen cabooses. The expanded cupola allowed the crew to see past the top of the taller cars that began to appear after World War II, and also increased the roominess of the cupola area. Sold on 2 May 1989. //-->. The first WP cabooses to leave the UP roster were four cars (WP 428, 437, 447, and 465) retired on 16 March 1984. Chassis is included: Coupler pockets are included for Micro-Trains MT1015 couplers. Museum. Retired in 1956 with the arrival of the 426 series bay window cabooses which were permitted to operate up to 79 mph. The purpose of a drover's caboose was much more like a combine, as well. These cabooses are typically used in and around railyards. 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. I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do. Stencilled "SPECIAL CABOOSE". Produced in the late '70s, TYCO only catalogs the 50' Canadiana Plug Door Box Car. Yuba City, California 95993-8986. from trains after 1993. The Western Pacific Railroad Museum is responsible for working artifacts ranging from small items like lanterns and signals to full size This Caboose is a center-cupola "New England" style model. 426-460. Though rare in the TYCO number organization, this model is one case where two Cabooses of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. March 8, 1967 International Car's parent company is shown as Nationwide Industries, based in Chicago. Painted yellow, June 1984. However, this would be a rare union agreement clause that could be used, but was not a regular issue. We will add images as time allows and images are added to the collection. In the UK, brake vans are usually of this basic design: the bay window is known as a lookout or ducket. Marker and caboose are located in the Western Pacific Railroad Museum yard. 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. The wine glasses didn't even tremble." Western Pacific caboose 664 is partly responsible for this web site. | [2] In modern Dutch, kombuis is equivalent to galley. 334 was retired in October 1952, but operated on several fan trips in 1956, making her the last steam locomotive on the WP. 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 . Speaking of the Zephyr, the museum has many cars and artifacts of "The most talked about train in ever since. WP 664 is one of approximately 100 cabooses which the Western Pacific built in-house from Pullman-built boxcars. Railroads proposed the end-of-train device (EOT or ETD), commonly called a FRED (flashing rear-end device), as an alternative. TYCO's "Midnight Special" This Western Pacific Caboose is the "Steamlined Off-Center Cupola" style Fremont, CA 94536, Sunol Station[Map] I recommend the Atlas 458011-2 chassis and 458040-2 chassis details. 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. It's not enough to say "Photo by Steve Sloan" in the text caption. The third TYCO IHC has also made newer runs of the Extended Vision Cupola Caboose in recent years that match Caboose was acquired in a Museum equipment trade between the FRRS and the BAERA in May 2005. Though few TYCO Caboose models could be considered rare items, a couple examples are rather 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. Donated to Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista Junction, California, 2 March 1989 (along with UP caboose 25732). 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. The UP Caboose is solid yellow with red lettering features theStreamline Off-Center Cupolastyle and is a yellow model with red mid section and white lettering. Seven of the eight Monon-built cabooses have been saved. "[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. Caboose is slated to be cleaned up and placed into the Caboose train.More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for UP 25732, Built in November-1955 as WP 36102. 70-77009 G Gauge RailKing One Gauge Offset Steel Caboose Chicago & North Western Offset Steel Caboose - CNW Car No. Cabooses have also become popular for collection by railroad museums and for city parks and other civic uses, such as visitor centers. My gosh. ex-WP 627, wood, cupola; ex-Victoria Station Donated, to Niles Depot Historical Foundation, Fremont, California, November 1988, delivered, on 2 February 1989. 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. It became Stockton Terminal & Eastern 1001, went to WP in 1968 becoming WP 608. Sold. model was available. rebuilt into cabooses in 1943. 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. Errol recently sold the caboose to FRRS Board member Wayne Monger. Shop with us today! Transferred to freight-only service and renumbered 619 (2nd) May 15, 1951, Note 2. These were the only WP cars to receive yellow paint. Add to Wish list. (No.327-N) Southern Pacific Bay Window Caboose #4763, Central Railroad of New Jersey Caboose #9124, Illinois Central Railroad Caboose #199539, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Caboose #01483, Missouri Pacific Lake House Caboose #13332, Canadian National Wide Vision Caboose #476, Chicago & Northwestern Railway Caboose #10869, Minnesota Transfer #X-12 Bay Window Caboose, Chicago Burlington & Quincy NE-8 Wood Caboose #139, Grand Trunk Western Caboose #77956 AUCTION, Norfolk & Western Railroad Caboose #518524, Burlington Northern Caboose #12330 REDUCED, Pennsylvania Railroad N5E Caboose #477594 SOLD, Penn Central Transfer Caboose #18086 SOLD, Interstate Railroad X15 Wood Caboose SOLD, Chicago Burlington & Quincy Wood Caboose #14570 SO, Chicago Great Western Railroad Caboose #10507, Illinois Central Gulf Caboose #199491 SOLD, Manufactures Railway Transfer Caboose #512, Alton & Southern Transfer Caboose #7 REDUCED, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Caboose/Cabin S, Baltimore & Ohio Caboose #903757 REDUCED 10/29, Delaware & Hudson Railroad Caboose #35706 SOLD, Pittsburgh & Shawmut Railroad Caboose #167 SOLD, Pennsylvania Railroad/Conrail Caboose #23130 REDUC, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Caboose #3300 SOLD, Louisiana & North West Railroad Caboose #216 SOLD, Central Railroad of New Jersey Caboose #C-670 SOLD, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Wood Caboose SOLD, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Wood Caboose SOLD, Canadian National Wide Vision Caboose #78196 SOLD, Chesapeake & Ohio Wood Caboose #906630 SOLD, Pennsylvania Railroad Caboose #477619 SOLD, Kansas City Terminal Transfer Caboose #515, Manufactures Railway Transfer Caboose #514 SOLD, Pennsylvania Railroad N5b Caboose #477680 SOLD, Chesapeake & Ohio Wood Caboose #90885 SOLD, Baltimore & Ohio Wood Caboose #C-2225 SOLD, Pennsylvania Railroad N5C Caboose #477871 SOLD, Illinois Central Gulf Caboose #199351 SOLD, Pennsylvania Railroad N-8 Caboose #478031 SOLD, Belt Railway of Chicago Transfer Caboose SOLD, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Caboose # 3563 SOLD, Southern Railway Caboose #X337 REDUCED 11/15, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Wood Caboose SOLD. the collection of a former vice president of TYCO, the pictured example above includes the notation that it is a sample. All Rights Reserved. Lineside defect detectors and end-of-train devices eliminated a lot of this need. I have seen more than just this one, so it is not a one of a kind. and give a general timeframe for reference regarding availability. held the other end in place, while a front-end loader set the second truck on the track and This has led to the phrase "bringing up the markers" to describe the last car on a train. is noguarantee regarding the ability to match up a loco with a Caboose of the same roadname. Neither the Boom Tender, nor the Floodlight Car are represented here as both are found in catalogs Also found in Red Box packaging, the TYCO CB&Q-Burlington Route Caboose from the early 20007-20056, 20041 wrecked and scrapped before 1917 renumbering, 742 rebuilt 1928, 774 rebuilt 1917 with wood underframe, Note 1. Two cranes lifted the carbody onto This caboose is part of the Caboose train that runs every weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day and Santa Trains in December.More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for MP 13878. Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, July 1985; sold for scrap to General Metals, 9 October 1986. Erie Railroad Caboose #N-3366. A railroad museum where the exhibits come to life! Mighty "Centennial", a Union Pacific DDA40X locomotive, the largest diesel locomotive ever built at over 98 feet long! Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho; sold for scrap to General Metals, 18 April 1987. logo, but letters the Caboose for ICGproviding the model with an identity crisis of sorts. This Chattanooga Caboose is found in late examples of the Chattanooga Flatcars and covered hoppers have been used for this purpose, but often the pushing platform is a caboose that has had its windows covered and welded shut and permanently locked doors. Whether this TYCO (No.327-23) Shop Online | 1, retired November 5, 1937. One was scrapped after an accident in Kentucky. At that time, WP had 59 cabooses, all of which were bay window cars. Mobile Home | Qty. Railroad Equipment Sales, Auctions, Appraisals & Consulting, P.O. Also, there Steve Sloan's Trains : UP : Western Pacific, WP 913 leads the day's first run of the Polar Express holiday train. Free shipping for many products! differences from their TYCO counterparts. Apparently from the late 1970s, TYCO produced a Western Pacific Caboose that closely matches the scheme ex-WP 618; wood, cupola; Moss Landing Road. May be located on private property near Inkom, Idaho. Early examples of the Streamline Off-Center Cupola Caboose feature metal "U"-shaped WP668 is a historicWestern Pacific Railroadcaboose being restored by Katy Dickinson and John Plocher, a private family in San Jose, California, USA. Wreck damage. G Gauge RailKing One Gauge Offset Steel Caboose Union Pacific Offset Steel Caboose - UP (Yellow) Car No. [citation needed] This was absorbed into Middle Dutch and entered the Dutch language circa 1747 as kabhuis, the compartment on a ship's main deck in which meals were prepared. from the early '80s, this Streamline Cupola Caboose is not featured among rolling stock selections in TYCO's catalogs. 740-376-4777. With the distinctive "Desert Tenders", these "Big Mikes" operated primarily between Portola and Elko. Privacy of 327-03. Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, April 1985; sold on 22 July 1988. Caboose was donated by John Ford and Steve Rodgerson in 1991.More information HERE! Built in March 1949 for the Santa Fe Railroad. builder International Car Co. built May 1980. type Steel Bay Window. 1650 Sierra Avenue Suite 203. Off-Center Cupola Caboose model in the early 1980s. 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. Built by Paccar (International Car Corp.) in March 1980. . The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. operates the Niles Canyon Railway as a living history museum interpreting the importance of our heritage railroads in the development of California and the nation. 1910, Western Railway Possibly sold to Nucor Steel, Plymouth, Utah, for scrapping. The remaining three are in private collections. Other nearby markers. 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. (No.327-33). TYCO catalog image, Clementine google_ad_slot = "3262246495"; Touch for map. Retired in 1956 with the arrival of the 426 series bay window cabooses which were permitted to operate up to 79 mph. Railroad historian David L. Joslyn (a retired Southern Pacific Railroad draftsman) has traced the possible root of "caboose" to the obsolete Low German word Kabhuse, a small cabin erected on a sailing ship's main deck. to late-'70s vintage and shares the same paint scheme utilized for the "Midnight Special" line. (No.327-14) or sold for scrap (42 cars). Southern Pacific Depot, 1st & Main. In stock. fire completely destroyed this caboose. Two latter-day caboose colors were Burlington Northern "cascade green" and Conrail blue. Western Pacific: Product Reviews . View Newsletters. Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, October 1985; sold for scrap to General Metals, 18 April 1987. As often is the case with TYCO, there is at leastone exception to the any Wabash locos during the "Brown Box" Era. Unknown Film Camera Likely an Argus C-44: Shot on Plus-X and Printed on Luminos RD #3 paper. (Belvedere [Illinois] Daily News, January 11, 1964) 1967 Union Pacific received 100 CA-9 cupola cabooses built by International Car, numbered as UP 25600-25699. Rainier Scenic Railroad and Cedarburg, Wisconsin, among other places. Another spotting feature of the Pemco Streamline Off-Center Cupola Caboose 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 A recent and was originally ATSF 507. 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. [4], The most common pluralization of caboose is "cabooses".[2][6]. Drover's cabooses looked more like combine cars than standard cabooses. Lettering and paint match the first TYCO model. Eugene said, "608 was the first locomotive I ever worked on as part of an engine crew (at the museum, of course).". The Historical/Archive Department manages paperwork, photographs and other archive material. the cupola design until the end of widespread caboose use.
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