The Mid-Continent Railway Museum received Milwaukee Road steel bay-window caboose No. 02091 (later No. 992091) as a donation to its collection today. The donation came from Ken and Ruth Rupp.

The caboose was built by the railroad in its Milwaukee Menomonee Valley shops. It is known to have run in Western Wisconsin on the Milwaukee Road’s Sparta to Viroqua, Wis., branch line for a number of years. Once retired, the Rupps purchased the caboose and restored it. In recent years, it has been on static display in Westby, Wis., about 25 miles southeast of La Crosse, Wis. Westby [was] along the [Milwaukee Road] railroad's Sparta-Viroqua branch.

The museum plans to use the new caboose as part of its operating fleet, affording patrons the opportunity to experience what it was like to ride in a bay-window caboose. The interior, says Andy Spinelli, museum president, is in great condition.

No. 02091 is the fourth Milwaukee Road caboose in the Mid-Continent Railway Museum collection and the 19th caboose overall.