The Rock Island depot in West Liberty IA contains a rr museum & CC office. In the middle of the lawn is this caboose & MOW vehicle. Volunteers are restoring the caboose. Vic Scherer (sp), a neighbor & senior worker, came over to talk to us when we stopped. They are selling small commemorative bricks at the office to support the cause.
2003 pic
Work in progress August 2009
Replacing this will be tricky.
They discovered 3 old layers of flooring, all of which were rotted away.
Recently I spotted a gloss red flattop cab painted RI @ Guymon, OK in the midtown park just off US 54. What the history of this car holds, I do not know
There is a nicely painted CRIP caboose at Belleville, KS (CRIP Des Moines Division division point and small yard where the lines converge from KC/Topeka and Lincoln/Omaha en route to Denver…) on US-36 just east of US-83…
I’m still puzzled by the strange looking doodlebug restoration at Fairbury, NE…looks more like a weed sprayer than a doodlebug…