A few Frisco cabooses 1701, Columbus, KS. Unknown 1700-series, Baxter Springs, KS Ex-NEO crummy 1110, Ft. Scott, KS. This was one of four cabooses built at the Northeast Oklahoma RR's Miami shops:
From May 1981 at Port Jervis, NY is CR Work Caboose 46170R, former PRR Class N-5A, former PC 19569. The PRR called its cabooses "cabin cars". The build date stencil is hard to read, but it looks like 1-17. Those heavy vertical members at the car end were collision posts, added during rebuilds in the late 1930s and early 1940s for crew safety.
A 15-year zombie thread come back to LIFE! Soo 89 rests in the shadows at CP2030 with the 1912 Soo Line depot in the background basking in the last rays of golden hour while a BNSF crew makes a bad order pickup out of frame.
Not my shot, but copied from a friend's slide because Hardcoaler ran out of film that day. August 1981, Des Plaines, IL.
From 10/18/1995 at York, PA is the sad remnant of L&HR hack No. 17. Some years later it was moved to New Freedom, PA where it continued to rot, then again moved to the Allentown & Auburn RR at Topton, PA. I don't know what has become of it. There were eight of this type, ordered by the L&HR in November 1941 to be built by the RDG. They were numbered 10-18, with the 13 renumbered to 18 to avoid using a jinxed number. The war intervened with the order and with steel in short supply, they were instead made with wood bodies and steel frames. The L&HR replaced the original wood sheathing with plywood in the 1960s. The L&HR was included in CR and Big Blue wanted nothing to do with wooden cabooses and rejected them all. Some survive in private hands.
