Re: caboose number and photo date
| January 25, 2024 02:43PM |
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Jimmy Blouch Wrote:
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> To me the number appears to be 0506
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> However, I have seen info that indicates 0506 was
> off the roster by 1891
>
The DPL listing has an ambiguous date, in brackets with a big question mark. So unless that's when the branch or mine were built, the locos appear to be within the 1891 date.
Cheers,
Ralph
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.”
- - - - - - - “Travel”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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> To me the number appears to be 0506
>
> However, I have seen info that indicates 0506 was
> off the roster by 1891
>
The DPL listing has an ambiguous date, in brackets with a big question mark. So unless that's when the branch or mine were built, the locos appear to be within the 1891 date.
Cheers,
Ralph
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.”
- - - - - - - “Travel”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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