Re: The Strange Story of Sumpter Valley Caboose #4 / U.S.A. Caboose #909
| October 02, 2022 03:14PM |
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Robert, this photo is one of the best I can think of showing SVRy tool car #072 which seems to have typically accompanied the wrecker. The car has the general configuration of a caboose without a cupola. I wonder if this car also started out as one of the excursion cars that you mention?
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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