Elvas Tower: Freelance MOW or Logging Caboose - Elvas Tower

MSTS FREELANCED LOGGING CABOOSE OR MOW CABOOSE
Rebuilt from NP Caboose #1907.
3D Modeling and textures ©2004,2011 by Tim Muir
Coupler Texture © Steve Thompson
Barrel Texture © Jim Bebenroth

24 Ft. wood with steel underframe caboose. Remodeled in 1910 from 19 ft. 4-wheel cabooses, built in the NPRy Shops in Tacoma, Washington, in 1905. Four-wheeled bobbers were outlawed by legislation soon after the cars were built, so were rebuilt to 24 foot cars. Road numbers were 1604-1699 and 1905-1999. All 84 remaining cars of this class were renumbered into the 1600 class in 1942. I have no data what new number the #1908 recieved at this time.

The odd railings attached to the cupola and roof were used by brakemen and conductors to "swing down the engineer" by signaling with a lantern or red flag if they wanted to stop the train. This was preferable to pulling the air with an emergency application from the rear end, which was liable to pull drawbars from the cars, resulting in a lot of work. -from W.R. McGee, NP Conductor.

THIS VERSION:
This contraption started out as NP caboose #1907. While on loan to the Arrowhead Lumber Co., a wet log slid off a skeleton ahead and bashed in the front of the crummy, reducing the first three or four feet to kindling. No one was injured in the incident and the NP struck off the car and left it on Arrowhead's property. After about a year sitting on the dead track, the road foreman had the car hauled into the carpenters' shop and rebuilt, with a bandstand on the front for hauling extra tools and other odds and ends needed in a day's work over the line.

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