Re: Photo from the past

This question may be better directed towards Jerry. However, perhaps someone can help with my original question. If this short caboose is 0505? The lines through Leadville, were standard gauged around 1917. This photo had to have been taken between it’s conversion to four wheel trucks, knuckle couplers and air brakes. As, Jerry states caboose 0505 burned in 1922. Data I have from Robert Sloan shows 0503, 0505, 0540 and 0574 were all built as long cabooses in 1923. Wondering how badly 0505 was damaged in the fire? Or was current long caboose 0505 built from something else. Could the photo at the Winne mine be another caboose? Only numbers that it could possibly be is 0506 or 0508. Both of those caboose don’t show as being built to eight wheel cabooses.

Sorry to drag this on. Would like to build an On3 model of the caboose in the photo. But, I want to be sure of its number.

Valleyman