Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Jim Courtney on Mar 31, 2015; 7:18pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Eight-wheel-Caboose-on-C-Sng-tp488p1975.html

You've previewed Part 2 of my caboose dissertation!  If I can get my @4#!*? scanner to talk to my new computer, I'm planning on posting a few more photos in the next couple of days, and discussing my take on the newly rebuilt cars, 1908-1911. No fuzzy dice next time.

Your last couple of sentences intrigue me though.  Are you suggesting that the newly rebuilt cars, at least for a few years, were designated to always run "B" end first (ie ladders and brakewheel immediately next to the train and cupola always at the rear)?  Interesting concept, it would require the cars to be turned at terminals and the Como Division Point. Although that would solve the problem of on which end to mount the markers.

I've never figured out what the little "X" braces inside the coupola, behind only one of the (?fixed) windows were meant to do.  They're a pain in the butt to remove from the Overland cars.