Re: Any C&C, SPNG cabooses?

The C&C had two cabooses, both purpose built, both passenger car style (as were the cabooses on parent V&T). Both survive, car 1 a body on trucks at Laws, car 2 in a private collection, fully restored, in the LA area. Car 2 was equipped with a cupola, and was kind of half passenger car and half caboose. This car was sold to the Tonopah RR in 1904, where it was number 5, was eventually placed on standard gauge trucks.

Under later SP ownership more cabooses, most from the South Pacific Coast, but also from the SJ&SN were brought in. These were mostly purpose built cabooses, built by the Carter Brothers, in the style of a 30' combines, most (but not all) with duck bill roofs). They did receive one combine converted to a caboose, that eventually got a conventional cupola, and came to look like a caboose. Again, from the SPC they received a box car converted to a caboose, with end platforms, but no cupola.

Randy

Randy Hees

Director, Nevada State Railroad Museum, Boulder City, retired
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