August 1962 3 NYC/Big Four cabooses sit at South Anderson Just want to add that the caboose on the far right is a Big Four Caboose. You can tell by the tall cupola.
Nice photo, thanks Roger. I wish I could find an N-Scale model of the left-hand NYC caboose, or a model that could be kit-bashed. The B&M used a similar long body, short cupola design before they adopted the C-5 design in the '30s. BTW, does anyone know why the Central adopted the bay-window design? I've always felt that the cupola design was more versatile, giving the rear-end crew much better visibility.
NYC, PRR and others in the northeast had many overhead bridges, tunnels, through bridges that had legacy clearance limits limiting height of equipment. Could have been the increasing HEIGHT of boxes, bulkhead cars, auto carriers, TOFC, and other modern cars eliminated the viewing advantage of the cupola...one could see as well or better from a bay window (with reduced chance of falling injury inside the caboose),when it became impractical to increase cupola height - wide cupolas were another solution, but usage may have been limited by clearances or other considerations. Just observation, not absolute fact. Bob C.
Roger, nice photo. Three distinctly different builds there. I remember the first two but don't recall seeing the one on the right, perhaps because I never did get out to Big Four territory. Do you know if any of them survive on display somewhere? :tb-confused:
Ya know, the short body and high cupola Big-Four caboose has bugged me since I first saw it this morning, now I realize what it is.....it reminds of Sir Topham Hatt in the Thomas the Tank Engine series. :tb-cool: Sorry Roger, don't mean to be disrespectful, but........:tb-biggrin:
That caboose on the left in the pic looks similar to a wooden caboose that the Ohio Central owned in Youngstown, OH. I believe it was donated to a historical society. I dont know if it was ex NYC or what road it belonged to. I think the society had Mahoning Valley in their name...maybe someone else knows what im talking about..
Maurice Lewman said: "The photo in 1962 of the three cabs at Anderson. The steel cab is probably one of the two originals and notice there is not a bathroom vent on any of them. The bathrooms came after the pool caboose agreement." No bathrooms! Hmmm!
