Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Derrell Poole on
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Jeff. This has apparent merit. I can't tell with certainty - is the roof curved? The details you point out are compelling.

It would be interesting to know when the car was set out.

The side door is likely a modification. Side doors seem more common on converted box cars. End doors not so much. This car was listed with boarding cars in the URoPC. Whether the car was just a caboose, a caboose / boarding car, or just a boarding car isn't clear. I think it was initially transferred to MOW to be a caboose and given the number 0302 but at some point it may have been fully a boarder - perhaps then being renumbered 087?

There is no certainty 302 came from the U&N - or the KC. That thought is deducted from comparing ORER listings of various UP stepchild RRs of about the same time a new cabooses came onto the UPD&G. There is documentation of 1601 on the South Park. So it is a little more reasonable to think 1601 became DL&G property.

To me the more credible candidate for UPD&G 1782 narrow gauge caboose is the conversion of UPD&G standard Gauge 1782... no? And since her sister cars were relettered Denver & New Orleans 2100 series cabooses, it seems likely 1782 was also a relettered D&NO caboose. D&NO caboose 2106 was the last to be relettered, according to the ORER. It disappeared from the listing WHEN  UPD&G 1782 appears. Not a certainty of course but sure a stronger argument than a KC or U&N car.