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A transfer caboose looks more like a flat car with a shed bolted to the middle of it than like a standard caboose. It is used in transfer service between rail yards or short switching runs, and as such, lacks sleeping, cooking or restroom facilities. The ends of a transfer caboose are left open, with safety railings surrounding the area between ...
The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad was a shortline railroad that operated in Potter and McKean Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States between 1882 and 1964. The original line ran 17 miles (27 km) along the Allegheny River between the boroughs of Coudersport , the county seat of Potter County, and Port Allegany in McKean County.
Work trains generally consisted of transfer caboose 697 (ex-CR 18015) and "The Duck," a small Davenport switcher. Equipment restoration and maintenance takes place at the railroad's open-air facilities. The original Phoenicia section house is used by the railroad to store tools and supplies for the track crew.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Illinois Central Railroad: Operational 806: Transfer Caboose: 1924: Illinois Terminal Railroad: Operational 2824:
1967 New York Central transfer caboose #18136; 1974 Conrail bay window caboose #21230: Donated to the National New York Central Railroad Museum by Conrail in 1997. Indiana Harbor Belt end cupola caboose #75: Purchased by the Lakeshore Railroad Historical Foundation in 1983 or 1984. Donated to the National New York Central Railroad Museum in ...
Southern Railway Wood caboose No. 2156; Southern Railway Transfer caboose No. XC7871, In use for on site train rides (Spring, Summer and Fall only) Georgia Railroad No. 2866; Georgia Railroad Steel braced wood caboose No. 2849; Norfolk and Western No. 500837, In use for on site train rides (Spring, Summer and Fall only) Clinchfield Railroad No ...
[11] [12] One Santa Fe caboose was also painted with "SPSF" in a similar situation. [13] At the time of merger denial, approximately 306 ATSF locomotives, four ATSF cabooses, 10 ATSF slugs, 96 SP locomotives, and one SP caboose [14] had been painted in this fashion. The two railroads made an effort to repaint locomotives in their standard paint ...
Savage and his backers chose 54th and Nicollet, at the time the Richfield-Minneapolis border, as the starting point for the new railroad. Minneapolis' Nicollet streetcar line ended at that spot, so passengers could easily transfer to the adjacent Dan Patch system. Its owners named their new firm the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque ...