Re: The caboose that never was

Posted by Jim Courtney on May 31, 2017; 6:14am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/the-caboose-that-never-was-tp8369p8376.html

Excellent work?

I'm flattered, but I don't ever seem to get anything finished! As retirement forever seems to elude me, I seem to have a chronic case of builders block. Seeing other folks C&S work, like Keith's, Jeff's and yours tends to inspire me to get back to the work bench with its gazillion unfinished projects. And Bob Stear's beautiful models in On3 are certainly something to aspire to!

Glad you found the back issues.

As for photos of 1010 and 1011, don't hold your breath, I've never seen any.

Nor have I seen any photos of two other cabooses that made it to the 1911-12 renumbering:

Colorado Central 27 (later 1726), renumbered to UPD&G 62, made it to the C&S and was renumbered 301, later 1001. Derrell's research shows it was scrapped in January, 1915.

An early DSP&P waycar, number 67, became DL&G 1505, renumbered 305 on the C&S in 1899, and was later numbered 1004. Derrell's info has this car surviving longer, wrecked in 1923, finally off roster by March, 1926.

I know of no photos of any of these cars. The fact that 1001, 1010 and 1011 were all scrapped between 1915 and 1917 might suggest that they were never rebuilt to the modern configuration (ie flat roof, no cupola on the end, paired windows on the sides). With traffic decreasing on the dismembered South Park Division and the US Safety Appliance deadline of 1916, perhaps the C&S chose to get rid of them rather than rebuild them (or maybe the C&S didn't like cabooses with binary numbers).

Anyways, perhaps one of the cabooses, say 1001 or 1004, remained in their original flat roofed configuration. Another speculative model that you could build.

BTW, if you don't have a copy, Grandt's Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII, by Derrell Poole and Ken Martin is a must have reference for anyone building models of C&S rolling stock. The book is still in print, you can order one directly from Grandt Line:
http://www.grandtline.com/books/

Darrell Poole has a chart that's chock-full of info on the C&S cabooses in the back of the book.