Re: More C&S caboose under frame weirdness.

Posted by John Greenly on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/the-caboose-that-never-was-tp8369p9457.html

Here's a complication.

Todd Hackett posted a good enlargement of a caboose at Beaver Brook on the CC on another thread:

http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/file/n6376/BB2.jpg

here's the image:



Only the near end wheels are unambiguously visible so the inference by my usual methods is not certain, but I believe this is consistent with a long wheelbase unless the car body is only around 11' long- unlikely.   So, does this ruin our emerging timeline?

In that thread, Jim very plausibly identified this as one of the two cars built in 1883 by the UP for the Colorado Central.  Jim identifies this image as after the renumbering to 1725 or 1726, in 1885.  So is it possible that these cars were built with, or had an early replacement to,  a longer wheelbase, and are the exceptions that prove our new rule?  Are there other useable photos of CC cabooses out there?

John