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Indiana museum completes caboose restoration
My son in law and I have been there twice during the restoration. I must say these guys have done a wonderful job. Congrats fellows. What’s your next project? I’ll be back up in a few months! Whistlestop Ed
As a boy I lived accross the street from the old main of the I&V branch of the PRR in Maywood Indiana. The line was used for storage of hoppers and boxes out of Oliver Ave. yard. Just after steam was gone a cut of cars were parked there that included an N6b and it remained there for about a year and a half. It was very easy to get to and in a safe area so it became our club house. Lots of fun and no one was ever hurt although one kid fell off the roof but was unharmed. Now it chills my spine to think of my grand kids doing things like that but we were 13-14 year olds with little thought of safty.
An N6b! As a boy, I hung out summers at the rear end of PRR’s Columbus-Crestline, OH turn while the head end crew switched two light industries on Columbus’s north side. A young rear brakeman named Chuck always rode the N6b. He would treat my buddies and me to demos of flags, lanterns, fusees, locks… Once he placed a couple of torpedoes on the adjacent track for a southbound J-1 to detonate. BANG! BANG! He quickly highballed the hogger with a green flag and a smile to say, “Just showin’ these kids how they work.”
Good to see something other than a locomotives restored. Great job WVRRM!