This is immediately north of the Shipshewana, Indiana post office's parking lot. Nov 5, 2020. John
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John, that’s an ex-PRR N5b cabin.
Caboose....last but not the least! Thx for the pictures...
Fellow Forum members, where are your caboose pictures? I was hoping my posting of a picture in response to rattler21's post would motivate others to follow. Let's see them!
John
In Winamac, Indiana. The ex-depot is now home to their historical society. Pictures below are of buildings and a home in Winamac. August 14, 2022
Middle of the town square. Many Indiana towns and cities have a very simlar building
Buildings in downtown Winamac. Sure look like Ameri-Towne buildings on steroids.
A non-typical home. John
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Great Northern cab X111 at Breckenridge Minn.
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The Burlington Northern is in Galesburg Illinois and the Burlington Route one is in Prinston Illinois.
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At the Ice House Mall in Barrington, Illinois. Chessie's Restaurant occupies the former C&NW station, which was moved to the mall to accommodate the construcion of the newer Metra station. I believe that the caboose was originally Western Maryland, but I am not certain.
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Vicksburg, MS (The Old Depot Museum has some PW Lionel layouts, great model ship display, and diorama of the Civil War siege)
Tower, MN
Stuart, VA
Canon City, CO (Royal Gorge)
Spencer, NC (at the NC Transportation Museum)
Duluth, MN (Lake Superior Railroad Museum)
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Altavista, Virginia 2013
My home town.
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Union Pacific CA-4 #25113 in my hometown of Glenns Ferry, Idaho. The caboose was donated by the UPRR in 1988. The caboose is parked next to the Glenns Ferry History Museum.
Below is an Overland Models HO Scale of the same caboose.
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Mount Airy Maryland, these photos are from a few years ago, there is now a roof over the caboose to the protect it from the weather. The caboose has been fully resorted and you can go inside on the weekend. Its part of the towns museum. Its also right across the street from the Train Depot a very nice old school model train store.
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These are all by the Brandywine (PA) Ace Store at the intersection of Street Rd and Pocopson Rd:
-Greg
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CE&I in Henson Park in Villa Grove IL.
Remsen, NY Depot
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@Sitka posted:Remsen, NY Depot
Thats the single class PRR N5E!
This caboose is on display in Lititz, Pa. It is ex-CNJ #91530. The story goes, the Reading Co. Technical & Historical Society painted this caboose in the Reading scheme to jokingly get back at the CNJ for stealing their caboose deign back in the day. the did include the original CNJ caboose number in the upper right corner of the car and also included the iconic CNJ orange disks on the front and back of the cupola.
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Ex-L&N 183, Pewee Valley, Kentucky.
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SP caboose at Texarkana, Arkansas north of the UP yard in Downtown area on the Arkansas side of town.
Two Cabooses at the Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad at the Railroad's offices at the Arkansas river,
Frisco one at Columbus, Kansas.
The Frisco Caboose in downtown Roger Arkansas (ex Santa Fe). Train club setting up to run a few trains this summer.
Years ago when Santa Fe was selling off their cabooses I got the "OK" from the wife (CFO) to purchase one,
BUT 2 of my kids needed braces on their teeth, one needed the cost of a caboose in braces and the other a caboose and a half.
SO the kids got braces. And over the years I lost the urge for a caboose.
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Some photos from 20 years ago:
This photo was taken back in 2000-2001. It's a PRR N5 cabin car painted in Conrail blue. By the way, the Fort Steuben Bridge in the background is also gone now.
Another view of the same cabin car.
This is another N5 although someone mis-labeled it as an N5c (porthole) caboose. This was located somewhere on 3rd-4th Street in Steubenville, OH. It's also gone.
Here's a real N5C. It resides in Central PA along State 15 north of Harrisburg, PA.
This N5 is coupled to the N5C in the same location. I took these photos about 18-20 years ago.
George
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Ellisworth, Kansas, let its station go, decided that was a bad thing, so they purchased and moved the station from the town of Terra Cotta to their town where they have erected a small historical plaque and augmented the station with a static display of a UP caboose – all of this close to trackside.
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ESPEE 8722's Canon City, Colo. caboose is one from the Great Western, an ex-FEC side door, whose siblings boomered all over the country on assorted shortlines. That one's still looks lettered for the GW, which means it had a history of trailing sugar beets and decapod #90, now on the Strasburg, around NE Colo. Brother Love did a run of these FEC side doors. The Strasburg needs that for #90. GW had two, so l need two.
This is an old Rock Island caboose that was in the old SP yard in East Austin. It belonged to the Austin Model Railroad Club and my parents were married on it. Dad took this pic of my older sister as a kid on it before it was sold to Coupland, Texas for their museum. Coupland is a little town in between Taylor and Elgin, northeast of Austin on the Katy.