Re: Caboose numbers

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Caboose-numbers-quickly-diverged-to-Tiffany-Reefers-tp6376p6378.html

Neat photo, Todd.

This is the clearest image of this particular photograph that I've seen.

I believe Derrell Poole wrote a series of articles for Outdoor Railroader, and discussed this photo in particular and how it fit into the caboose numbering scheme of the time. He might have also touched on it here, in his "Eight Wheel Caboose on the C&S?" thread as well.

As to caboose color, it might well be painted in UP caboose yellow with maroon lettering and fascia, as on the end pieces uncovered on the 1006 restoration.

That's a great photo of South Park freight cars--a DSP&P boxcar, two big Tiffany reefers, two Litchfield 26' boxcars and a pair of UP built 27 foot coal cars, with different side sills.

Speaking of Tiffany Reefers, a while back you posted a beautiful high resolution enlargement of the C&S flanger 08 at the Washington Spur wreck of #60 and #70.  Any chance that you have a high-res image of the two Tiffany cars, still in UP lettering, at the same wreck?  I'm toying with the idea of building a couple of Leadville Shops kits to match, one in UP lettering the other in early C&S lettering.

Jim