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Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 2 Cabooses by Anthony W Thompson w/ Dustjacket
Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 2 Cabooses by Anthony W Thompson
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Reflections from the lights on some photos
392 pages
Copyright 2002
CONTENTS
Prologue and Acknowledgements5
Chapter 1Introduction9
Chapter 2SP Caboose Basics13
Chapter 3Early Cabooses29
Chapter 4Class C-30-179
Chapter 5Additional Wood Cabooses143
Chapter 6Steel Cupola Cabooses169
Chapter 7Early Bay-Window Cabooses213
Chapter 8Caboose Conversions253
Chapter 9The C-40 Cabooses of the 1960s287
Chapter 10 The C-50 Bay-Window Cabooses 329
Appendix 1: Additions to Volume 1367
Appendix 2: Caboose Records373
Bibliography 381
Index385
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Southern Pacific, one of the West's largest and most historic railroads, operated a major fleet of freight cars. The history of those cars is extensive, and a series of books is being written to describe all types of SP freight cars. The first volume addressed gondolas and stock cars. This second volume covers just one type, the caboose.
Freight car history has a number of dimensions. Built dates, car numbers, car characteristics are only the bare bones. Also of importance are reasons for construction of a particular car class and exploration of its design heritage, and indications of the longevity of the class, culminating in rebuilding or scrapping. This book endeavors to offer much of this type of history for the caboose fleet of the Southern Pacific.
The book opens with an introductory section of background information, then covers the early wood cabooses (1871 to 1917), the massive number of Class C-30-1 cars of the 1920s, additional wood cars, and the all-steel cupola cabooses built from 1937 to 1942.
The coverage continues with the bay-window cars, first the early 30-ton cars just after World War II, then the 40-ton cars of the 1960s and finally the 50-ton cars built up until 1980. A separate chapter describes the various caboose conversions, from box cars, passenger cars, and locomotive tenders (into yard cabooses).
Throughout the book, roster information and builder photos, as well as in-service photos at various points in the life of car classes, document the history. Drawings and lettering diagrams of selected cars are also included. Two appendices, a bibliography and an index round out the book.
Cabooses represent an essential part of the history of any railroad. The book's 681 photos (102 in color) of SP cabooses, most from company and museum archives and never before published, together with 17 drawings, extensive rosters, and bibliography, make it unusually complete and authoritative. This book provides a coverage that every railroad enthusiast, and of course Southern Pacific fans in particular, will enjoy.
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