At least it doesn’t have graffiti on it. The last caboose I saw was on a BNSF train in Manning, IA and it had an old green-and-yellow BN caboose on the back of it, and there was graffiti all over the side. Still, this old caboose needs a repaint.
Now that’s a caboose with character. I have a photo of one of the stubby old TRRA cabooses after they had all been sent away to the scrap heap. This one apparently was forgotten and was in a siding out in Pacific, far from home and crumbling away.
But, as has been said, it was a caboose and it looked good.
…Not too many years ago we had a caboose working this area…Muncie yards…when it was Conrail. Looked almost exactly as the one in above post. Obviously, a home made unit.
Very ugly alright, but that one looks clean compared to one I’ve seen. Back when I was very young (5-ish) I was eating dinner at Perkins Restraunt in Cleveland, Oh. While I was eating, a CR MOW train passed by on the main next to the me. On the end I saw a CR caboose still painted for Penn Central! Either that or the paint faded very, very badly. It was green, and you could still see the “Mating Worms” logo! [xx(]
I appreciate your point, but personally (and assuming I have to choose) I would rather see a caboose scrapped than a locomotive, but that’s just my personal opinion.
I agree. A little work, a little waste and oil in the journal boxes, paint out the Milwaukee logo with black paint, replace it with the Frisco coonskin and it would be right at home in the Ozarks.