Caboose numbers (quickly diverged to Tiffany Reefers)
Posted by Todd Hackett on
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I came across this photo while trying to determine whether a Beaver Brook stereo view on eBay was one I already had or not. I was going to title this thread "Caboose Number Mystery" after the recent "Mystery Rotary..." that turned out to be not so much of a mystery (thanks to Jerry Day), but in case this was obvious others or had already been discusses, I toned it down a bit. This photo of a Caboose was taken at Beaver Brook around 1885 (some cars show post-1885 numbers, some don't). I can't make out the caboose number, but it appears to have 3 digits. The DSP&P and CC waycars/cabooses were numbered with 2 digits before 1885 and 4 after. It's possible that it's a re-numbered caboose and the first digit (a "1") just isn't clear, but it really looks to be only 3 digits. The rest of the lettering is interesting, between the "CABOOSE" instead of "WAY CAR" on the sides, and the black lettering on the ligher colored body with what looks like white on the darker fascia. Any thoughts?
The rest of the train are all DSP&P cars with an interesting mix of lettering styles, but the locomotive looks to be #155, which was CC.
This is a fairly modern copy print, and according to hand-written information on the back, is an Alex Martin photo from the Penrose Public Library.
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I came across this photo while trying to determine whether a Beaver Brook stereo view on eBay was one I already had or not. I was going to title this thread "Caboose Number Mystery" after the recent "Mystery Rotary..." that turned out to be not so much of a mystery (thanks to Jerry Day), but in case this was obvious others or had already been discusses, I toned it down a bit. This photo of a Caboose was taken at Beaver Brook around 1885 (some cars show post-1885 numbers, some don't). I can't make out the caboose number, but it appears to have 3 digits. The DSP&P and CC waycars/cabooses were numbered with 2 digits before 1885 and 4 after. It's possible that it's a re-numbered caboose and the first digit (a "1") just isn't clear, but it really looks to be only 3 digits. The rest of the lettering is interesting, between the "CABOOSE" instead of "WAY CAR" on the sides, and the black lettering on the ligher colored body with what looks like white on the darker fascia. Any thoughts?
The rest of the train are all DSP&P cars with an interesting mix of lettering styles, but the locomotive looks to be #155, which was CC.
This is a fairly modern copy print, and according to hand-written information on the back, is an Alex Martin photo from the Penrose Public Library.
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