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Nostalgia & History > Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is)Date: 04/26/24 11:02 Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: EL833 Rock Island caboose #17728 at Blue Island, Ill, 04-13-1980. Other view of the same cab seen in a Larry Auglund photo in May, 1978, posted last August by Marty. Still has the mismatched trucks under her. The Rock had just recently (03-31-1980) shut down, but they were still in the process of moving/storing equipment a couple weeks later. Not likely this car lasted very long after the shutdown.
Roger Durfee Akron, OH  Date: 04/26/24 12:49 Re: Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: refarkas A true Rock Island treasure.
Bob Date: 04/26/24 13:50 Re: Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: LarryDoyle Even with a well stoked stove in there, these single sheathed wooden cars must have been cold in the wintertime.
-LD Date: 04/26/24 20:33 Re: Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: WM_1109 1980? Who'da thunk it?
Thanks for sharing this one, Roger. I'm just glad I didn't get the job to stencil 'ROCK ISLAND" on the side of that one. Although I don't think I could've done any worse. /Ted Date: 04/26/24 20:44 Re: Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: GN599 Their caboose fleet was like their locomotive fleet. Diverse!
Date: 04/29/24 12:11 Re: Watch your step, a caboose named Sue (Rock Is) Author: rrman6 Someone, please tell us more of why the "S U E q" marking!!!
I recall as a youth living near Pratt, KS on the Golden State Route in the early 50's and having seen many of these old RI "woodies" dressed in "boxcar red" with the black RI logo and numbering. Yes, extremely cold they were, but they got the job done along with their steel counterparts. |