West Side Lumber Caboose #4/6 - The Early Years
| March 19, 2015 08:02AM |
As many have seen here and elsewhere on the internet, my old friend Earl Failla recently sold to John Christensen his West Side caboose #4/6 and a West Side Skeleton Log car. Both are slated for restoration at the NCNG Museum.
Caboose #4 was built by the West Side in 1940 just after the arrival of the Swayne skeleton log cars. Here is what Earl and I think may be the earliest known photo of the caboose after she was built at the West Side car shops.
L.L. Bonney took the photo.
Martin
Caboose #4 was built by the West Side in 1940 just after the arrival of the Swayne skeleton log cars. Here is what Earl and I think may be the earliest known photo of the caboose after she was built at the West Side car shops.
L.L. Bonney took the photo.
Martin
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