From Photo Album 1001.1.23.1, , Scan, At 11:30 a.m. on July 7, 2012, about 35 minutes after the, The train is caught heading east, crossing the SP bridge at Mossdale, CA in. Wrecked on 8 July 1984 at Pittsburg, California. May be located in Redwood Valley, California. However, this would be a rare union agreement clause that could be used, but was not a regular issue. For a summary of the WP668 story, see Katys May 2017 Western Pacific Historical Convention slides:The Story of Western Pacific Caboose 668. builder International Car Co. built May 1980. type Steel Bay Window. Wreck damage. The TYCO Boom Tender : 3226, 3575 . 1916: Originally built by Pullman Company as an outside braced boxcar, 1943: Rebuilt by Sacramento Car Shops as a caboose by adding bay windows and end platforms, 1975: Donated by Western Pacific Railroad to KQED for a fund raising auction and purchased by a resident of Salinas, CA, but burned by vandals before the car could be moved, 1975-1983: Burned car sits on a siding in Salinas, 1983: Purchased by Sam and Laura Jenkinsen to be restored as an office for their contracting business, February 2000: Donated to the PLA for preservation, In service while undergoing restoration, Brightside, CA. It's not enough to say "Photo by Steve Sloan" in the text caption. like to be a freight Conductor! This is the first Illinois [10] The ETD also detects movement of the train upon start-up and radios this information to the engineers so they know all of the slack is out of the couplings and additional power could be applied. Repainted blue, renumbered to WPMW 457, March 1984; repainted silver, April 1984, assigned to Elko wrecker, WPMW 79. The railroads also claimed a caboose was a dangerous place, as slack run-ins could hurl the crew from their places and even dislodge weighty equipment. this matching caboose model. Older freight cars had plain bearings with hotboxes for crews to spot overheating as freight cars replaced these with roller bearings, there was also less need for cabooses to monitor them. Built by Paccar (International Car Corp.) in March 1980. TYCO catalog image, Illinois Central Gulf Western Pacific: Product Reviews . (No. ex-WP 627, wood, cupola; ex-Victoria Station
The ends of a transfer caboose are left open, with safety railings surrounding the area between the crew compartment and the end of the car. Whether this TYCO Prior to arrival, the track was laid, as well as an extension out into the
Stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, from December 1986; sold, for scrap to Aaron Ferer and Sons, 25 February 1989. | Western Pacific Caboose #484 & Marker. Painted yellow, June 1984. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ROUNDHOUSE HO-SCALE #3463 OLD TIMER CABOOSE WESTERN PACIFIC *NOS* VINTAGE WP 523 at the best online prices at eBay! Returned to lessor, U. S. Trust, 10 April 1987; possibly sold to Nucor Steel, Plymouth, Utah, for scrapping. They also inspected the train for problems such as shifting loads, broken or dragging equipment, and hot boxes (overheated axle bearings, a serious fire and derailment threat). She was sold to the Oregon & Northwestern Railroad and later purchased by Errol Spangler and placed on permanent loan to the Feather River Rail Society by Mr. Spangler. This caboose is now private property of Katy Dickinson and John Plocher in San Jose, CA. pushed it under the caboose. as "Action Cars and Accessories" and not amongst rolling stock and never listed asjust a "Caboose" model. Cabooses of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum (*Clickable links open in a new window*) ATSF 999197 Built in March 1949 for the Santa Fe Railroad. as CCT 19, H&B blt. The Western Pacific Caboose List Where there are images available, links have been provided. WP 447 and 465 were sold for scrap. WESTERN PACIFIC CABOOSE #754 Built: 1910 by Haskell and Barker Donated: 1956 by Western Pacific On passenger trains, the porters, bartenders, cooks, waiters, stewards, and other crew member often shared tiny compartments in the ends of the passenger cars as they traveled on long runs. Additionally, Monon Railroad had a unique change to the extended-vision cabooses. Steve Sloan's Trains : UP : Western Pacific, WP 913 leads the day's first run of the Polar Express holiday train. On longer livestock trains in the American West, the drover's caboose is where the livestock's handlers would ride between the ranch and processing plant. Originally flatcars fitted with cabins or modified box cars, they later became purpose-built, with projections above or to the sides of the car to allow crew to observe the train. ThisICG Caboose features an orange roof and the correct version of the ICG logo. Qty. This collection of images is a work in progress. Caboose was donated by John Ford and Steve Rodgerson in 1991.More information HERE! Retired in 1956 with the arrival of the 426 series bay window cabooses which were permitted to operate up to 79 mph. The standard form of the American caboose had a platform at either end with curved grab rails to facilitate train crew members' ascent onto a moving train. end details do have some variations. Donated to Nevada County, Historical Society, Nevada City, California, February 1987. IHC (International Hobby Corp.) is the current owner of certain molds for Check . (No.327-14) (No.327-35), Penn Central You may not use my photos for profit and/or as part of, or to sell, a product or service without my consent. All images are provided for personal reference purposes only. fire completely destroyed this caboose. easily may be mistaken fora TYCO model. Donated to Elm Creek School, Elm Creek, Nebraska, September 1989, not delivered until after, November 1990. Western Pacific caboose 664 is partly responsible for this web site. Chattanooga Mileposts, Across from Police Station, with WP 727 GP7 diesel
More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for CCT 24, Built June-1941. Drover's cabooses used either cupolas or bay windows in the caboose section for the train crew to monitor the train. Read more. A transfer caboose looks more like a flat car with a shed bolted to the middle of it than it does a standard caboose. ex-WP 618; wood, cupola; Moss Landing Road. railings on the ends. Built by International Car Corp. in May 1974. [10] An ETD could be attached to the rear of the train to detect the train's air brake pressure and report any problems to the locomotive by telemetry. IHC has also made newer runs of the Extended Vision Cupola Caboose in recent years that match A 1982 Presidential Emergency Board convened under the Railway Labor Act directed United States railroads to begin eliminating caboose cars where possible to do so. If you have a photo of a captive WP
It does not make any appearances in TYCO catalogs, but going by its letter-suffix stock number All photos are used with permission. Western Pacific caboose 664 is partly responsible for this web site. Drover's cabooses looked more like combine cars than standard cabooses. Removed from service on 14 February 1989 at North Platte, Nebraska. Regular price $64.95 Western Pacific (WP) and Sacramento Northern (SN) outside braced wood bay window caboose in N Scale. this model was available in Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, and Amtrak dress. This car happened to have a hole in the roof about two feet square. the cupola design until the end of widespread caboose use. Add to Cart. Besides the IHC examples of the TYCO Caboose models, Pemco produced a clone of the Streamline 28. Email: caboose@chaffee.net. [citation needed]. Chicago & North Western Railway received 25 new cabooses from International Car. The page was last updated on December 30, 2016. (No.327-S), Pennsylvania BNSF also maintains a fleet of former wide-vision cabooses for a similar purpose, and in 2013 began repainting some of them in heritage paint schemes of BNSF's predecessor railroads. ever since. WP 664 is one of approximately 100 cabooses which the Western Pacific built in-house from Pullman-built boxcars. Stored on ground, without trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from, March 1984; sold for scrap to General Metals, 17 April 1987. The 13878 was donated by the Union Pacific Railroad to the Feather River Rail Society. Track3 of Jolly Goodfellow's Utah Depot site, article on it appeared in WP's
Even more odd, is TYCO's Wabash Cannonball Caboose. Athearn N ATH12093 30' 3-Window Caboose Western Pacific WP #727 MODEL FEATURES: Fully assembled and ready for your layout Molded truss rods with turnbuckles (as appropriate) Clear window glazing Body-mounted McHenry knuckle spring couplers. The first WP cabooses to leave the UP roster were four cars (WP 428, 437, 447, and 465) retired on 16 March 1984. should be sent to me with a CC: to Roger. In fact, the Extended Vision CupolaCaboose Displayed with WP GP9 727. More information HERE!Audio Tour Page for DRGW 01414, Built in September 1980 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Distant dispatchers controlled switches, eliminating the need to manually throw switches after trains had passed. Contact | (No.327-19), Rock Island Western Pacific (WP) and Sacramento Northern (SN) outside braced caboose, N Scale. Restaurant. Sold. always remember. Yuba City, California 95993-8986. (No.327-45) Three cars (WP 454, 474, 477) were retired in early 1986, leaving 40 former WP cabooses on UP's roster. [citation needed] This was absorbed into Middle Dutch and entered the Dutch language circa 1747 as kabhuis, the compartment on a ship's main deck in which meals were prepared. WP668 is a historic Western Pacific Railroad caboose being restored by Katy Dickinson and John Plocher, a private family in San Jose, California, USA. IHC has offered this Caboose in its own line since TYCO's departure CSX Transportation is one of the few Class 1 railroads that still maintains a fleet of modified cabooses for regular use. Speaking of the Zephyr, the museum has many cars and artifacts of "The most talked about train in Possibly scrapped. our fleet, as it was built to pull the famous "California Zephyr". Stored on ground, without, trucks, at Pocatello, Idaho, from August 1984. Also, caboose motels have appeared, with the old cars being used as cabins. Mighty "Centennial", a Union Pacific DDA40X locomotive, the largest diesel locomotive ever built at over 98 feet long! Off-Center Cupola in the early 1980s.