Hard to imagine but the Pacific Electric was a user of such cabooses up until its demise, built in the Torrance shops to their own design, a number of them were later modified with express doors for LCL service on lines that had abandoned passenger/express service.
Dave
Have to also remember that any caboose not capable being pushed against was when possible moved to the rear of the pushers tender To keep it from being crushed.
Here’s a photo of the caboose back in the 1960s and of it today at the Red Caboose Motel in Strasburg. I know at one point at the Red Cabosoe Motel the caboose was painted with an LIRR scheme. Does anyone have any photos of it from earlier days at the motel?
The photos show that it’s certainly a PRR class Nd. Since LIRR was closely affiliated with PRR, it may have been on the LIRR roster before going to the CP&W at Bloomsburg.
Tom
Short “bobber” cabeese were not always single-trucked:
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(Photo borrowed from the Sacramento Northern Online archive: http://www.wplives.org/sn/caboose.html )
This one operated in northern California, on the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern (later the Sacramento Northern.) They used short cabeese like this in order to fit more cars on the Ramon, a car ferry used to carry OA&E/SN trains across Suisun Bay on their way from Sacramento to Oakland. Two trucks handled better. I used a PRR “bobber” caboose to kitbash a model of SN 1614, it’s not exact but works well enough for my purposes.
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Bobbers were also common on western logging lines, where small size and light weight were higher priorities.