Re: Long Caboose question

drgwk37 Wrote:
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I wonder why
> they were not opened more? Maybe they were and
> just not photographed much.

If you open the end doors on a caboose, you get a nice air stream moving through the car when under way. I usually opened the cupola windows but not side ones much.

Skip Luke
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