Re: Any C&C, SPNG cabooses?
| October 27, 2014 10:08AM |
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Never a traditional caboose-style car.
Carson & Colorado cabooses #1 and #2 were both built by the V&T shops in the early 1880s with cupolas and relatively flat arch roofs. Both cars had baggage-type side doors. Trucks were bought from Barney & Smith which built the passenger cars of the line.
Apparently only #1 entered service as a caboose on the freight train that briefly operated between Hawthorne and Candelaria. Later this car was set as the spare RPO car and received a short ventilator clearstory. The body of this car is at Laws, California.
From the often seen photo of the train at the tunnel taken about 1888
#2 was soon rebuilt with a passenger-style clearstory on the long end. This made it look like a combine that had a cupola. I became the officers’ car for the railroad. By 1900 #2 apparently had been sold to the Inyo Development Company, one of the many operations managed by H. M. Yerrington out of the V&T office in Carson City. But, the lettering on the car was not changed – in 1903 it was being used by the C&C/SP in a two car special still lettered Carson & Colorado. The car was sold to the Tonopah #5 and later when it changed gauge the car went up on freight car trucks. After being de-trucked at Millers, Nevada, the car body was moved to Laws where it sat for several decades until sold to private interests and is now restored in Orange County.
(H. M. Yerrington must have liked the cupola for when a new officers’ car was built in the mid-1890s it received a cupola.)
During the Tonopah boom period the C&C/SP used many short combines and box cars as cabooses.
The SP had a conventional appearing caboose #467 that was rebuilt from one of the South Pacific Coast combines. This car’s cupola is of the style that the SP standard caboose design. This car was often photographed and when retired was given to Parker Lyon’s Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, CA. Later the collection was sold to Harrah’s. The #467 suffered a fire and passed through several owners before becoming the parts source for re-trucking the body of #2.
The SP also had caboose #1 that was one of the short SPC combine-looking cabooses. This car became caboose #400 with the post WWII renumbering.
After mixed train service ended prior to WWII the mixed train combines received caboose numbers.
Over the years the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Historical Society's publication has told the story of many of these cars.
Brian Norden
Carson & Colorado cabooses #1 and #2 were both built by the V&T shops in the early 1880s with cupolas and relatively flat arch roofs. Both cars had baggage-type side doors. Trucks were bought from Barney & Smith which built the passenger cars of the line.
Apparently only #1 entered service as a caboose on the freight train that briefly operated between Hawthorne and Candelaria. Later this car was set as the spare RPO car and received a short ventilator clearstory. The body of this car is at Laws, California.
From the often seen photo of the train at the tunnel taken about 1888
#2 was soon rebuilt with a passenger-style clearstory on the long end. This made it look like a combine that had a cupola. I became the officers’ car for the railroad. By 1900 #2 apparently had been sold to the Inyo Development Company, one of the many operations managed by H. M. Yerrington out of the V&T office in Carson City. But, the lettering on the car was not changed – in 1903 it was being used by the C&C/SP in a two car special still lettered Carson & Colorado. The car was sold to the Tonopah #5 and later when it changed gauge the car went up on freight car trucks. After being de-trucked at Millers, Nevada, the car body was moved to Laws where it sat for several decades until sold to private interests and is now restored in Orange County.
(H. M. Yerrington must have liked the cupola for when a new officers’ car was built in the mid-1890s it received a cupola.)
During the Tonopah boom period the C&C/SP used many short combines and box cars as cabooses.
The SP had a conventional appearing caboose #467 that was rebuilt from one of the South Pacific Coast combines. This car’s cupola is of the style that the SP standard caboose design. This car was often photographed and when retired was given to Parker Lyon’s Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, CA. Later the collection was sold to Harrah’s. The #467 suffered a fire and passed through several owners before becoming the parts source for re-trucking the body of #2.
The SP also had caboose #1 that was one of the short SPC combine-looking cabooses. This car became caboose #400 with the post WWII renumbering.
After mixed train service ended prior to WWII the mixed train combines received caboose numbers.
Over the years the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Historical Society's publication has told the story of many of these cars.
Brian Norden
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