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-tp488p1941.html

Keith, take another look at the enlarged photo that Chris posted of (?)306--note the open end window and cupola roof grab iron.  The end windows with curved upper and lower edges of the same diameter actually slid inboard to open and allow acess to the roof.  Later, by the 1930s, the end windows were sealed.

The cupola end windows, in order to slide inward, had to have these curved upper and lower edges to match the radius of the roof and cupola roof fascia.  That's what makes them hard to scratch build and why we buy brass models.

BTW, this was true of most D&RG cabooses prior to 1910-15, when cupolas were rebuilt with square end windows that were fixed.