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Nostalgia & History > BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'?Date: 03/18/18 05:54 BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: valmont Bruce Black caught the end of this MILW train 7 miles east of Andover, SD on July 7, 1976. Waiting for entire trains to pass used to yield some rewards ...
 Date: 03/18/18 07:08 Re: BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: fbe MILW 992301 was purchased for coal train service with BN so it is odd to find it in freight service.
Date: 03/18/18 08:14 Re: BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: BarstowRiff Didn't know the Milwaukee ever even owned a cupola caboose, let alone an extended vision. Very rare catch.
Date: 03/18/18 10:24 Re: BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: fbe The MILW had lots of cupola cabooses. In the wooden era they outnumbered bay window cabooses which were rebuilt from cupola cabooses. The 01600 series were MILW built cupola cabooses with riveted sides before the company switched to welded, rib side bay window cabooses.
Date: 03/18/18 17:25 Re: BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: Milwaukee BarstowRiff Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Didn't know the Milwaukee ever even owned a cupola > caboose, let alone an extended vision. Very rare > catch. The MILW had two modern ones that were built to BN specs for joint coal service. I believe it's the other one that is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum. Date: 03/18/18 17:34 Re: BB: MILW helper 'cabeese'? Author: goneon66 ANY caboose image is great but it don't get much better than the milwaukee road........
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