Save This Caboose!!

[Anonymous]

Is it the Minn. Transportation Museum that's nearby? The same one that has the "Hustle Muscle" SD-45. I wi***hey could get interested in it.
A pure CB&Q paint job decades after the BN merger deserves better than the torch!

Jimmy

[csxt30]

That looks to be in pretty good shape & has roller brg. wheels also. One thing that could be looked into is if a museum or Hist. Soc. had it, it could be gone over , with just enough maintainance on the brakes & safety appliances to make it roadworthy & moved. Some RR's will do a courtesy move for free, if all the rules are met. I had to get breaks operating on a passenger car a couple years ago at the Museum in N.East, Pa. They sold it to a museum in the South & our RR, CSX was first to pick it up. My boss out of Buffallo, at the time, said it was a courtesy move & they weren't charged for my work either. BTW, that's a nice museum there & not far from Erie, Pa. I remember going there to do brakes on an old Refer they sold or traded, too. Thanks, John

[underworld]

Should be able to be had cheap enough if it is from a scrap yard. One thing that can be $$$ is transportation......got to get a truck and a crane.

underworld

[Anonymous]

Wow, it really looks to be in great shape....I'm really surprised to see that the roofwalk is still on with the hoops still attached...Have you contacted the CB&Q Historical Society or even the photographer about it? It would be neat to have a "rail-a-thon" or something of that nature to buy her back from the scrappers torch!!! So many things have gone by the way of quick death, it's really a sad thing!!!! I'm not a member of the "Q" Society but I would be willing to chip in a few bucks towards the rescue!!!!

John [2c]

[Anonymous]

I wish I had the money[sigh][sigh]Now thats a thing of beauty.

[Anonymous]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=99039

God I hope somebody with money or some group can save this
caboose if it is indeed awaiting the scrapper's torch! It sure
looks like it's in good enough shape for restoration.

Will somebody with money please save it??!!