Nostalgia & History > BN 'heritage' caboose hop

This was an unexpected sight one Denver morning ... obviously a while ago ...but no GN

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That is quite a catch on all those classic cabooses and paint schemes.
Nice !
Gary



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/24 08:07 by gcm.

That is pretty cool!!

valmont Wrote:
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> This was an unexpected sight one Denver morning
> ... obviously a while ago ...but no GN

Where were they going?  I hope not to the junk man somewhere.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

switching the caboose track, would they ever take them thru the car wash?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/24 11:14 by dan.

A really good find!!!

No NP either.
 

danoconnell Wrote:
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> No NP either.
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I wondered if the very last unit might be NP.  The third BN in green (from the front to rear) looks like it might have been a Great Northern in prior life.
Regardless, it's a memorable catch.
jb



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/24 11:21 by boejoe.

cool photo.   My short time on Milwaukee at Bensenville remember being sent to shuffle cabboses.  Lot nostalgia for them but there was a lot of extra work, moves, shuffling them around not to mention the RR
maintaining and stocking them. 

Bob

danoconnell Wrote:
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> No NP either.

The last one is NP, logo and 'Main Street of the Northwest is on the side ... hard to enlarge and show clearly but it's NP 
best I can do ...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/24 13:07 by valmont.

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3 of the 4  green cabooses could easily be NP too

Super catch.
Bob

Cool! I feel like I don’t see a lot of BN SD9’s with a steam generator…any info on that units prior life?

Texican65 Wrote:
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> Cool! I feel like I don’t see a lot of BN
> SD9’s with a steam generator…any info on that
> units prior life?


Some help: From The Diesel Shop BN 6147-6176  ex-CB&Q 345-374



 

valmont Wrote:

> Some help: From The Diesel Shop BN 6147-6176  ex-CB&Q 345-374

There's also Charles Biel's site:  http://www.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/SD9/INDEX.HTM

And Trainweb: http://www.trainweb.org/jaydeet/sd9.htm

Built in 1955 as CB&Q 360, it became BN 6162 in the 1970's and got chopnosed at some point in the early 1980's: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5748748

Its old BN number carried through to the BNSF roster for about a decade.  It got renumbered BNSF 1739 in early 2007 to make way for an ES44AC, but was probably stored out of service never to run again when the renumbering happened.  Looks like the number was sprayed on the long hood with a rattle can:

http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:SD9_BNSF_1739.JPG

BNSF 1739 went to NRE in late 2007, and the last photos I'm finding of it online show it at Silvis in 2009.