Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2020 saw the acquisition of a second bay-window caboose, No. 52, from Jim Dobbas, Inc. in Antelope, California. The caboose, a former Union Pacific CA-11 steel caboose built in 1979 as No. 25852, began being used on daily trains to Gold Hill in August 2021, and is used to increase capacity on busy weekends.
Finally, in 2004, UCRY acquired the trackage serving Business Depot Ogden from a UP connection. [4] At one point the UCRY leased a 44-ton GE diesel and class CA-11 caboose from the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah. Both the locomotive and caboose were repainted in UCRY colors.
CA-13-2 On static display at the RailGiants Train Museum, in Pomona, California. [48] 25049 June 1942 CA-3 On static display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [49] 25256 June 1959 CA-5 On static display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California [20] 25283 August 1952 CA-5
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Bay window caboose Display; C30-6 type; Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, CA 1886 Bay window caboose Restoration completed 9/16/16, static display at SLORRM, San Luis Obispo, CA 4706 Bay window caboose Operational; C50-9 type; Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, CA 4727, 4736 Caboose
The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.
The West Side Flume & Lumber Company was founded in May 1898 to log 55,000 acres (22,000 ha) of land outside of the town of Carter (now called Tuolumne).A 10-mile (16 km) long 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railroad was laid into the woods east of the town.
The standard form of the American caboose had a platform at either end with curved grab rails to facilitate train crew members' ascent onto a moving train. A caboose was fitted with red lights called markers to enable the rear of the train to be seen at night. This has led to the phrase "bringing up the markers" to describe the last car on a train.