I just purchased DT&I caboose #96 and a awaiting its delivery in a few weeks. Wondering if there any members here who have any experience restoring a wooden caboose?
You might contact the Strasburg Rail Road. They have a wooden caboose that came from the DT&I. The same type of car was used by the Montour and Youngstown & Southern, with one survivor being preserved at the Canfield, OH fairgrounds. The design was also used by the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh, becoming B&O's class I-10, and several of those still exist.
Thanks ACY, good tip.
Congrats on your purchase.
I took pictures and measurements of your caboose when it was in Hartland to use to make my 1/29 and 1/8 scale caboose models.
You should buy Dwight Jones DT&I caboose book. Great history info. His brother David owns caboose #89 and is almost done restoring it.
Your caboose is a very original copy in nice condition considering age.
I'd love to visit it when you have it settled in place.
Brian Briggs
Thanks Brian
i actually did buy Dwight Jones book and the supplement and have emailed him back and forth a number of times. I've also managed to get inside #77 at the Henry Ford museum and get a ton of pictures so I've got a better idea of how everything should look. Also #94 is only a stone throw away in Flat Rock and I've been there a few times already. People look at me funny because I've taken pictures of the underside of both of them but I need the reference material to get the linkage and ab break system back in place. That stuff was all removed for the move to get the caboose down as low as possible on the low boy.
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