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In a bay window caboose, the crew monitoring the train sits in the middle of the car in a section of wall that projects from the side of the caboose. The windows set into these extended walls resemble architectural bay windows, so the caboose type is called a bay window caboose. This type afforded a better view of the side of the train and ...
The museum acquired an L&N bay window caboose (with a newer gray-and-yellow paint scheme, as opposed to the traditional red) in 1985, and in 2005 restored a red cupola-style caboose to its original appearance. [4]
The caboose illustrates advances in caboose design, because it was built with bay windows rather than a cupola for observing the train, a change necessitated by increasing large loads being carried. [2] The caboose was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1]
1974 Conrail bay window caboose #21230: Donated to the National New York Central Railroad Museum by Conrail in 1997. Indiana Harbor Belt end cupola caboose #75: Purchased by the Lakeshore Railroad Historical Foundation in 1983 or 1984. Donated to the National New York Central Railroad Museum in 1986 or 1987. Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern ...
A canted oriel window in Lengerich, Germany. A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. It typically consists of a central windowpane, called a fixed sash, flanked by two or more smaller windows, known as casement or double-hung windows.
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. [31]
Union Pacific 201 Bay Window Caboose, former Rock Island 17092, built in 1966. [12] This car was transferred to the Nebraska Railroad Museum. In 2022 this car was sold to a private individual and mover to Beemer, Nebraska. [13] Former C&NW 40 foot boxcar 336, built in 1953. This car was transferred to the Nebraska Railroad Museum.
Southern Pacific bay window caboose No. 1886 is on the display track and almost completely restored inside and out. A former Southern Pacific tank car manufactured in 1903 (pressed and riveted steel) is on the display track and undergoing restoration.