?? about bay window caboose's.
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Introduction of bw cabooses would depend on individual railroads, and their need for new units. They would've been around until all cabooses were phased out, early to mid 80's for most railroads if I'm not mistaken.
there has to be a year they was invented tho....... say they came out in say the 1960's , you should not see them in a 1940's scene. im trying to build complete trains where all the rolling stock is the same era as the engine. im tired up pulling new modern cars with steam, and what not.
Hi Mike!
As far as caboose many still remain in service where long reverse moves are made such as locals and mine runs..Many of these cabooses are fully functional.
Hi Mike!
As far as caboose many still remain in service where long reverse moves are made such as locals and mine runs..Many of these cabooses are fully functional.
You're right of course, I forgot about that. In general, though, they wouldn't be seen on most mainlines after the mid-80's.
As per Wikipedia:
Thought to have first been used by ACY in 1923, also closely associated with the B&O starting with a prototype in 1930.
In the west, Western Pacific was the first to use 'em, in 1942.
The rest of the railroads would've started using them later than that, obviously, depending upon if and when they required more cabooses for their trains. If I remember correctly, the Rock didn't start using them until the 1960's (but that's a guess without looking at my reference books).
Thought to have first been used by ACY in 1923, also closely associated with the B&O starting with a prototype in 1930.
In the west, Western Pacific was the first to use 'em, in 1942.
The rest of the railroads would've started using them later than that, obviously, depending upon if and when they required more cabooses for their trains. If I remember correctly, the Rock didn't start using them until the 1960's (but that's a guess without looking at my reference books).
Nyc 20430 - 1948
NYC 20430 - Shirley, IN circa 1948
One of two original steel cabs on the Michigan Division. Notice the oil markers. It was coal heated and has coil spring trucks.
Maurice Lewman Photo
NYC 20430 - Shirley, IN circa 1948
One of two original steel cabs on the Michigan Division. Notice the oil markers. It was coal heated and has coil spring trucks.
Maurice Lewman Photo
Not necessarily. I suspect long before railroads built bay window cabooses (or had built for them), they had converted conventional cabooses to something like a bay-window caboose, or added some type of bay window to a non-cupola caboose like a transfer caboose. I believe Minneapolis & St. Louis and the Omaha Road (CNW) had wood bay-window cabooses that were rebuilt from older cupola cabooses, but I'm not sure when the first conversion was done. So there could have been bay window cabooses around before the first "official" one was built at a car builder.
BTW although Extended Vision cabooses are generally connected to 1970's-80's railroading, the first ones were delivered to the Missabe Road in late 1952, so they could be used on a late steam / early diesel layout. (DMIR used steam until 1960.)