We shall soon have UP caboose 2269 undercover in Cheyenne, built in 1901 she is a rare surviving NCS UP caboose, we have exciting plans for her to become a representative of a very very famous early UP caboose. Up the hill is the rarest UP caboose known NCS 2095 from 1880, she will move next to Cheyenne and become company for our 1913 CA 2516 and 1923 CA1 3171. Also in our care is UP CA 2409 from 1907.

Mike Pannell

You're one busy fella, Mike, keep up the good work, Take Care & WORK SAFE,
Sammy

Always nice to see UP history preserved. Are these cabeese going back on rolling chassis?

Robert

They don't have Chassis as such, wood frames and wood trucks, we don't have trucks and will eventually need at least 4 pairs.

Mike

2269 is loaded. Heading for Cheyenne tomorrow, first time since the 1940s that a NCS, CA and CA1 have been seen together.

Whilst all the drama is going on with the ITM we are quietly working away as a 2 man band saving important items in Colorado. 2269 is secure and whilst she looks a little moth eaten is fabulously original inside considering she is 117. Fascinating to find that the exterior siding from 1942 is covering the earlier siding from perhaps 1901....wonder what history we will uncover.

There are a few pairs of UP wood frame caboose trucks out there that could be documented for replication. A few days ago, I saw one pair undergoing repairs at the Southern Nevada (State) Railroad Museum at Boulder City, Nevada.

These are from and will go back under its wooden UP caboose. A previous owner had replaced these with later day trucks with cast frames; but, the originals came with the rest of the collection. When repaired the pair will go back under the caboose, the present trucks will go under another car, and those trucks will go under another car.

Maybe UP might have had drawings up to the late 1960s when they microfilmed all sorts of plans, etc. in Omaha.