I purchased the RF&P 937 caboose August 15 1990 from a railroad equipment broker D.F. Barnhardt & Associates. It was shipped by rail to Whitesboro Texas ;  Texoma Peanut Co .rail site. It was removed from the tracks by a house mover and moved 20 miles to our family farm. The farm was just south of Pilot Point Texas close to Lake Ray Roberts. The RF&P Blue Caboose 932 was taken to my family farm and placed on rails as a static display in the woods overlooking a small lake. It was kept in excellent condition and used by our family as a cottage for guest visiting the farm.

During it’s time on the at Farm the Caboose went thru extensive renovation. It had Everything done to it from taking it completely apart, sandblasted, primed with special primer paint, painted the original RF&P Blue, painted break wheels back to school bus yellow, replaced cracked windows and up dated the inside which had been vandalized in the rail yards.

The caboose was used mainly on weekends and holidays. Our children and Grand kids loved bringing their friends to the farm and sleeping in the caboose. We have wonderful memories raising the kids and working on the caboose. 

The Children are all grown up now so in 2020 my wife and I made a fun decision to donate the RF&P Blue Caboose to “The Museum of the American Railroad” in Frisco Texas where it now sits proudly back on live track with the likes of Union Pacific (Big Boy) 4018, Steam engine #7 Union Terminal, some beautiful Pullman's,and many other historical railroad engines and cars. 

Since the donation we have learned there was a lot of history behind the RF&P 937 Caboose. It ran mainly with the Tropicana juice trains and occasionally behind the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (RED troop) train. It was also one of the last 4 cabooses to be Unionized by law for the Commonwealth of Virginia.