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Cabooses of North America Volume 2 By James Bradley SC
Cabooses of North America Volume II By James T. Bradley soft cover
Cabooses of North America Volume II
James T. Bradley
Soft cover
64 Pages
Copyright 1991
Contents
Introduction 2
International Car Co. Advertising . 4
Fallen Flag Roads13
Regionals 31
Short Lines 46
Index63
Introduction
In volume I of Cabooses of North America, the major railroads of North America's past and present were covered. Volume II, will cover many of the shortlines, regionals, and fallen flag roads that were not covered in volume I.
Volume I also had a brief history of the caboose. In retrospect, a few high points of this history are in order. The first documented use of a caboose was in 1855, a converted boxcar. The first cupola style caboose was introduced on the Chicago & North Western in 1863. All steel cabooses were first introduced in the 1920's. The first bay window type car was introduced in 1923, and finally the extended vision caboose came into being in 1953. This was a caboose that incorporated the cupola and bay window all in one design, it proved to be the last.
Over the years there were many builders of cabooses. Many have now vanished, others turned to building other types of rail equipment. Following is a list of the larger builders of cabooses other than the railroads themselves. American Car & Foundry, Darby Corp, General Standard Co, International Car Co. Pacific Car & Foundry, St. Louis Car Co. Southern Iron & Equipment Co. Thrall Mfg. Co. Whitehead & Kales Co. and in Canada, Hawker Siddeley Ltd. and National Steel Car Ltd.
In the early 1960's, International Car Co. was promoting their new extended vision style caboose through out the railroad industry. An advertising brochure from the period was a glossy affair with artists renditions of each style of caboose available. Portions of this interesting brochure are reprinted starting on the following page.
In the three chapters on railroads, they will be in alphabetical order by name. The chapter on fallen flag roads, railroads which no longer exist, generally covers major rail lines, but will cover smaller well known roads which have also disappeared.
Regional roads, railroads generally shorter than 1000 route miles, will be covered and only those that are active at present, many are new lines spun off from their larger brethren. Shortlines will cover belt and transfer roads in addition to rural shortlines.
An index to type and road numbers is provided at the rear should one wish to look for a certain style or railroad.
In gathering the photos for this book, it was found that good color photos of cabooses prior to the 1950's were extremely hard to come by. Although many photos were available in black and white, the author wished to keep the continuity of the "Cabooses of North America" theme all color, as in volume I. Many of the older photos acquired have deteriorated with time, but in the essence of a historical view where no other material was available, it was deemed necessary to include these photos. I think you will agree.
Unlike locomotives, caboose rosters with information like builder, builders dates and prior ownership is almost nonexistent in some cases. Even the railroads themselves are uncertain as to where and how some older cabooses came about, except in generalizations.
Up until the 1960's records were not required to be kept on company owned rolling stock which was not used in interstate commerce. As regulations became more stringent and cabooses began to traverse other railroads on run through trains, regulations were developed, and cabooses had to meet the same requirements as other rolling stock.
Prior to that time cabooses owned outright were rebuilt, modifications made, and not much was ever recorded.
We have endeavored to include as much of this type of information that was available or that space limitations would permit.
All photographs are the authors unless duly noted beneath the photo in question.
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