Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Eight-wheel-Caboose-on-C-Sng-tp488p1926.html

Forty some odd years ago, I worked my way through college and medical school as a brakeman for the Rock Island, working off the summer extra board in North Terxas.  The same type of "monkey tail" was still in use on the CRI&P's bay window and extended vision cabooses of the late 1960s-early 1970s.  By that time it had evolved to a vertical pipe coming up from the caboose end beam, with whistle and emergency brake valve fitted to the end handrail, next to the brake wheel.  The whistle was indeed a high pitched, shrill, "peanut" type.