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Local car |
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This transfer caboose is used by the Pryor based local on the ex MKT. It is currently referred to as a "shoving platform," since it isnt used as a caboose in the traditional sense any more. Mostly it works in the Mid America Industrial Park here. |
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5/11/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:12:33 AM |
| Location: |
Pryor, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Interesting car |
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This car was on a siding on the branch from Surf into Lompoc. It has a police department shield, but I cant make out the department. The line is SP, but the car looks distinctively Santa Fe. If anyone has some insight on the origins of the car, and how it got here, please speak up. |
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3/27/2015 Upload Date: 9/6/2018 4:42:21 AM |
| Location: |
Lompoc, CA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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62 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Santa Fe car |
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This ex Santa Fe car was on display at Williams Arizona. |
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4/4/2015 Upload Date: 9/23/2015 4:48:46 AM |
| Location: |
Williams, AZ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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144 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Shop queen |
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This WATCO caboose has likely run its last miles long ago. It now sits at the entrance to the WATCO car shop at Coffeyville. Looks good for a display piece. |
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6/14/2015 Upload Date: 10/25/2015 3:05:00 AM |
| Location: |
Coffeyville, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,RollingStock |
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94 Comments: 1 |
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DL van |
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This Delaware Lackawanna van is sitting in the Steamtown yard at Scranton. DL provides the freight service between here and Stroudsburg over the old DLW, with an all Alco roster. |
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8/20/2015 Upload Date: 9/28/2015 2:53:17 AM |
| Location: |
Scranton, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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Museum piece |
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This Burlington caboose sits outside the former passenger station here, now part of the town museum. |
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10/18/2016 Upload Date: 10/27/2016 4:37:03 AM |
| Location: |
Beatrice, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,RollingStock |
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134 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Chamber of Commerce |
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Many towns along rail lines made an effort to get cabooses as the railroads shed them in the early and mid 80s. In many cases, the rail lines donated them, getting a tax write off. Quite a few of them became local information centers, or just ornaments near an old station or station site. Some, like this one at Acworth, GA, got painted in a show of civic pride. It looks like this one was a Santa Fe car in its working life. |
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4/20/2017 Upload Date: 5/1/2017 4:21:39 AM |
| Location: |
Acworth, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,RollingStock |
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43 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Downtown display |
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This Frisco caboose is adjacent to the former passenger station at Bentonville, whose track was taken up years ago. Its almost like they left it when the left town. It looks good here, as does the station, which is now privately owned. |
| Photo Date: |
1/19/2018 Upload Date: 2/5/2018 4:23:42 AM |
| Location: |
Bentonville, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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RollingStock,Station |
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109 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Santa Fe, sorta, maybe |
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I was on a "geezer" bus tour which stopped for a meal break at this place called Barstow Station. It was NOT the ex ATSF Casa del Desierto, which would have been way too much to ask. This was a glorified gas station on the other side of the yard. It did have something of a rail theme, and the McDonalds there had several box cars that had been trucked in and parked as part of their restaurant. One of the more interesting pieces was this mock Santa Fe caboose. |
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3/10/2019 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:00:01 AM |
| Location: |
Barstow, CA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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35 Comments: 0 |
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On display |
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This ex Mopac caboose is on display in Alma, and will be part of a welcome center once the downtown project is complete. |
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11/8/2019 Upload Date: 11/14/2019 4:46:33 AM |
| Location: |
Hazen, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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189 Comments: 1 |
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Austin Area Terminal |
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This caboose was sitting-with, of all things, an ex LIRR P 72-at the Llano Texas welcome center, a recreation of the Austin & Northwestern station in that town. The Austin Area Terminal, a WATCO operated line that runs from here to Austin, then on to Giddings, seems to be the current owner, but the LHRR mark on the end belong to the Longhorn RR. I could find a site for the Longhorn & Western, at the Texas Transportation Museum, who had it prior. |
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2/22/2020 Upload Date: 3/10/2020 3:41:25 AM |
| Location: |
Llano, TX |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,RollingStock |
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121 Comments: 2 |
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Frisco car |
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The Frisco donated a lot of their cabooses to on line communities, though Im wondering about this one, in a park on the west side of Springfield, as the number doesnt match the Friscos practice of four digit car numbers. Comment if you know... |
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10/24/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 6:14:08 AM |
| Location: |
Springfield, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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30 Comments: 1 |
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