On the Roanoke cam I just saw a train with a flat car painted black with a little cab in the center of the car . The cab has little windows on the side. Any one see this car before . What could it be used for?? Tha car was toward the end of the train.
Just curious.
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
It could have been a transfer caboose. These are short-range cabooses used on local and yard jobs. Many cabooses today, including some of these, are used as "shoving platforms" to give crew members a place to stand during long reverse moves.
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=Transfer%20Caboose
Yup. A simple and common transfer caboose.
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And that's exactly what they were...little cabs on ratty old flat cars. We used to call ours "kidney-shakers".
Carl
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CShaveRR And that's exactly what they were...little cabs on ratty old flat cars. We used to call ours "kidney-shakers".
Johnny
Anybody got a link to a photo showing this NS version ? I'm having difficulty finding one . . .
NS may not have had nor have one. When cabooses were abolished, many of them were saved for such service. Penn Central had some from NYC but I don't think from PRR. Don't believe either the Erie or Lackawanna nor D&H had any, either, but roads which did a lot of transferring between yards and different railroads...designed different from a caboose, i.e. without bunks and cabinets for long trips...just a desk and benches for crew and heating stove, maybe an icebox (yeah, icebox not refrigerator!).
Gentlemen; thank you for all the replies. For a while I thought it mite be an (idler car)and the length seemed too long for that.
Respectfully, Cannonball
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