Re: Derrell's Eight-wheel Caboose: Hiding in Plain Sight?

Posted by Chris Walker on
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Jim, Thanks.
my questioned correlation with the Gilpin cabeese was due to me having forgotten that the only centre cupola car was from a predecessor road.  I just found where that info was published (Narrow Gauge Pictorial V-viii pg212).  I'm not that much up on Locos and rolling stock any more as thesedays I am now more often looking to see what's "in back of the picture" to work out the details of the location rather than the actual subject matter.  After re-reading the posts, I should have noted the written details more clearly.

That Sw-St also bothers me in the way that there is no top casting nor "ear" of the drop handle visible (hence my original thoughts on being photoshopped out).  It sort of looks like what a small scale modeller would build who only had a rough idea of switchstand construction or combination of styles in a generic form, as many do.  This removal of Targets at a later date on the C&S maybe worthy of some study.

I also wonder if Derrell had posted that picture to see if anyone else could come up with what you have identified and posted, ie deliberately hid in plain sight?