Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?
Posted by Jeff Ramsey on
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I might be crazy but I actually believe that 302/087 might still exist right in Como! Located right across the road from the roundhouse is a car body that looks alike and is similar in dimension to the surviving car at St. Elmo.
Why I think this could be a former caboose is that:
1) The corners are quarter rounded just like a passenger car or a way car (caboose) and this car body still has its marker light brackets holders like as mentioned. I have never seen a freight car with rounded corners.
2) This car has small windows that are located well below the facia. These windows are just like the windows on 1005 and 1008 as shown in the other cabeese posted. I have never seen a photo or a folio of a C&S outfit with these type of windows. Has anyone found a folio for 087?
3) Another thing interesting is there is evidence of a signal cord that ran through the carlines of this car. There is still a locker on the interior but no signs of a cupola. The interior is in excellent shape and it would be interesting to professionally reveal a number if there is one or more on the end carlines under the layers of paint.
4) This car has doors just like a C&S caboose design but also might just be like a plain outfit.
I think when this outfit, 087? was retired in 1928 it was set on the ground next to the roundhouse where the smith shop was and is seen in the image in 1938. Later it was moved across the road.
I have been accused of this as "pure poppycock" on other groups but the rounded and bracketed corner make me believe this was once 302, a former Utah Northern or Kansas Central way car. Has anyone else seen proof of the Union Pacific or Colorado & Southern doing this to other outfit cars?
Just a theory...
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I might be crazy but I actually believe that 302/087 might still exist right in Como! Located right across the road from the roundhouse is a car body that looks alike and is similar in dimension to the surviving car at St. Elmo.
Why I think this could be a former caboose is that:
1) The corners are quarter rounded just like a passenger car or a way car (caboose) and this car body still has its marker light brackets holders like as mentioned. I have never seen a freight car with rounded corners.
2) This car has small windows that are located well below the facia. These windows are just like the windows on 1005 and 1008 as shown in the other cabeese posted. I have never seen a photo or a folio of a C&S outfit with these type of windows. Has anyone found a folio for 087?
3) Another thing interesting is there is evidence of a signal cord that ran through the carlines of this car. There is still a locker on the interior but no signs of a cupola. The interior is in excellent shape and it would be interesting to professionally reveal a number if there is one or more on the end carlines under the layers of paint.
4) This car has doors just like a C&S caboose design but also might just be like a plain outfit.
I think when this outfit, 087? was retired in 1928 it was set on the ground next to the roundhouse where the smith shop was and is seen in the image in 1938. Later it was moved across the road.
I have been accused of this as "pure poppycock" on other groups but the rounded and bracketed corner make me believe this was once 302, a former Utah Northern or Kansas Central way car. Has anyone else seen proof of the Union Pacific or Colorado & Southern doing this to other outfit cars?
Just a theory...
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