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Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose #1082. Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose 1082. Thanks to John Henderson and Patrick Durand, we have photographs of 1082 while in service on the Alaska Railroad. This photo shows it with ladders, roofwalks, original windows and simple lettering on a plain background. (11/04) |
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Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose #1082. Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose 1082. The second photo from John Henderson and Patrick Durand shows no ladders or roofwalks, new windows and the new blue and gold paint scheme. Both photos appear to show the same set of friction trucks. When we received the car, it had Roller Bearing F trucks and was stenciled "Blt 7/77". (11/04) |
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Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose #1082. Alaska Railroad Center Cupola Caboose 1082. Located on Caboose Ridge East Triple Track. Class NE. Built by Pacific Car and Foundry, Rentin, WA. When we acquired the caboose, we were advised that there was "some" fire damage, but when it arrived we found that the interior had been completely destroyed by fire. 1082 is scheduled for repainting in the blue and gold paint scheme and conversion to a guest cabin. (11/04) |
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Burlington Northern Extended Vision Center Cupola Caboose #12282. Burlington Northern Extended Vision Center Cupola Caboose 12282. Located on the east side of the Train Mountain Main Gate. Roller bearing caboose trucks. Built 12/79 by International Car Division, PACCAR. Donated to Train Mountain by BNSF. Scheduled for conservation. (3/01)
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Columbia . Columbia & Cowlitz Center Cupola Caboose 5. Located at Highway 97 Gate in Blue Caboose Campground and is a landmark for Highway 97 truckers who can easily see it over the firewood fence. Originally built by the Great Northern Railway at their St. Cloud, MN shops in October 1951, it was numbered X-293 and received a red color scheme. See GNRHS Reference Sheet No. 176 for further information. Photo of caboose in its X-293 livery taken at Wenatchee, WA September 1955 by Stan Styles Photo (Jack Porzig Collection). In the late 1960s it was repainted Big Sky Blue. At the time of the merger, it became Burlington Northern 111318 in February 1972, and was painted Burlington Northern Green. Thereafter, it was sold to Weyerhaeuser in June of 1979. Our thanks to Jack Porzig, Chairman of the Caboose Technical Committee of the Great Northern Railroad Historical Society for this historical information. The details of the transfer from Weyerhaeuser to Columbia and Cowlitz are not known. Train Mountain acquired it from a scrapper in the early 1990s with its Columbia and Cowlitz paint scheme. This is the first center cupola caboose to be converted into a guest cabin. It has a deck on the north side. Member Mark Flitton has a standing reservation to stay in the Blue Caboose for work weeks and train meets. (11/02) |
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Denver Rio Grande. Denver Rio Grande & Western End Cupola Caboose 01431. Located at Katy Lane Gate. Roller Bearing Caboose trucks. Built 6/44. 54,700 pounds. Scheduled for conservation. For some good pictures of this series of cabooses, see the November 2001 issue of Finescale Railroader. (10/01)
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Missouri Pacific (MoPac) Bay Window Transfer Caboose #13034. Missouri Pacific (MoPac) Bay Window Transfer Caboose 13034. Located South Portal. Roller bearing trucks. This caboose is slated for conversion into a rest stop. Though it looks like a transfer caboose used only in train yards, the Missouri Pacific called this "platform type caboose car with bay windows" a Short Body Bay Window Caboose and was strictly a main line service caboose for the railroad. A total of 301 were built in its DeSoto and Sedalia, Missouri shops, 300 of which were put into service for the Missouri Pacific. This caboose was a part of the third order of 100 built from November of 1981 to January of 1982. These were the last mainline cabooses used by the Missouri Pacific.See "Cabooses of the Missouri Pacific Lines" by G.J. Michels, Jr. for detailed information. See also the Missouri Pacific Historical Society at www.mopac.org and www.trainweb.org/dbrr/ for further information. Our thanks to Elvin Klepzig, a member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Pacific Historical Society for pointing out to us the difference between a transfer caboose and a Short Body Bay Window Caboose. (1/03) |
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Missouri Pacific (MoPac) Offset Cupola Wide Vision Caboose. Missouri Pacific (MoPac) Offset Cupola Wide Vision Caboose |
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Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. This is one of twenty of these cars sold to Canadian National in 1965, seven were wrecked or scrapped by the NYC and the balance were sold to various Mexican Railroads. (Serial No. PS49-1290-001 to 097). (9/04)
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Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. Pullman-Standard 10/6 SleeperTo date we do not have a photograph of the car in its original CN livery. It was purchased by Edward W. St. John in 1988, who had it painted green, red and gold, with the road name "MERCEDES AND WESTERN RAILROAD", car number "NCL 2089" and car name "Isabel". Ownership of the car passed to Train Mountain in 1996. It remains in its original location on a display track between Train Mountain Road and the barbecue, just inside the main Train Mountain gate. (9/04) |
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Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. This car is currently being repainted by Steve Vadeboncoeur, John Yardley and other members of Vancouver Island Model Engineers in British Columbia to restore it to its 1965 to 1988 CN livery. During the summer of 2003, they painted the roof and trucks black and the body white primer. (9/04) |
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Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. During the summer of 2004, Steve Vadeboncoeur, John Yardley and other members of the Vancouver Island Model Engineers painted the sides dark green and black and the wheels and undercarriage black. During the summer of 2005, they expect to apply gold striping and authentic Canadian National lettering and decals, completing the return to CN livery. The interior has almost all of its original fittings, including signs in both English and French from its CN service. We are looking for a few replacement light switches to fill in these gaps. While restoration to a working car may prove difficult because of plumbing issues, we plan a series of projects to bring the car as close to its CN running condition as is practical. (9/04) |
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Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. Pullman-Standard 10/6 Sleeper. The 10 Roomettes and 6 Bedrooms car was a popular Pullman-Standard product. The New York Central ordered 97 in December of 1945, which were built under lot 6790, plan 4123 and delivered between September of 1948 and March of 1949 for service on all NYC premiere Streamliners and Dreamliners. (9/04) |
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Santa Maria Valley Railroad Extended Vision Center Cupola #200. Santa Maria Valley Railroad Extended Vision Center Cupola 200. Located at Hidden Valley Road Gate. Bettendorf F trucks. Built 7/59. According to Roger Kirkpatrick, this caboose was acquired by SMVRR from Rutland Line, Inc., where its number was either 50 or 51. The interior of this caboose is almost exactly as delivered by International Car Company in 1959. The only conservation required at the present time is repainting the exterior. (1/05)
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United States Army Transportation Corps (USAX) Boxcar #26522. United States Army Transportation Corps (USAX) Boxcar 26522. Lettered "DLA 53206." Located on long display track on northwest corner of Caboose Ridge. Bettendorf trucks. Built 2/53. 44,900 pounds. Scheduled for conversion into two guest cabins. (3/01) |
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United States Army Transportation Corps (USAX) Boxcar #26523. United States Army Transportation Corps (USAX) Boxcar 26523. Lettered "DLA 53207." Located on long display track on northwest corner of Caboose Ridge. Bettendorf trucks. Built 2/53. 44,900 pounds. Scheduled for conversion into two guest cabins. (3/01) |
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Western Pacific Bay Window Caboose #468. Western Pacific Bay Window Caboose 468. Located at the Caboose Ridge Road Gate. Roller bearing caboose trucks. Built 3/73. 46,600 pounds. This is the first bay window caboose to have been converted into a caretaker cabin, complete with an attached garage and deck on the north side. Occupancy is delayed until septic/sewer approval, which requires approval of Train Mountain as a destination resort. (3/01)
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