Unknown Wooden Caboose

[George Lortz]

Things are very slow on The Board right now, so I have a photo captured on eBay that I'm submitting for discussion.

Anyone have any idea:

1) If this caboose is really yellow?
2) What its number is?
3) Where and when is the photo taken?

George L.


 

[Ken Weller]

Looks yellow to me.  I believe I read before that there was at least one caboose (maybe more?) assigned to MOW service that were painted yellow.  Photo circa 1960s?

[Ron Marquardt]

I have pictures os several cabooses that were painted yellow.  I'll try to find the numbers.  Most may have been in MOW service, but one was used as a bunkhouse for the road crews at Shops.  It sat between the transfer table and the yard office, and I spent many a night in it back in the early 1960's.  Incidentally, we've had this whole conversation before, several years ago.  / Ron

[Tom Kepshire]

What color would you like it to be George? Purple....Pink....Safety Green?? I' sure we can make it plaid if you wanted.

[Tim T Swan]

It IS yellow.  Mont Switzer has modeled it in yellow.  If you know Mont, you know it has to have been yellow and within his late '50's timeframe, or he wouldn't have modeled it that way.

[Ron Marquardt]

It is yellow, and not because Mont modeled it that way.  It is yellow because it was yellow when I stayed in it as a bunkhouse in the early 1960's.  It was set on a short track by the transfer table, and had a steam line hooked to it from the diesel shop.  The Monon has several yellow cabooses, and this was one of them.  / Ron