Caboose SLSF 1727 - BN 11701 Caboose SLSF 1727 - BN 11701 1) BN 11701 - Thayer, MO. Photograph dated 3/13/1983. 2) BN 11701 - South Seattle, WA. Photograph dated 8/1989.
Caboose SLSF 1727 - BN 11701 Caboose SLSF 1727 - BN 11701 1) BN 11701 - Thayer, MO. Photograph dated 3/13/1983. 2) BN 11701 - South Seattle, WA. Photograph dated 8/1989.
Attached is a photograph of caboose SLSF 1727, sitting at Newburg, MO in the fall of 1980. The railroad was shut down that day, a Saturday, because of a wreck between Dillon and Cuba. This train was sitting at Newburg waiting for the clean-up crews to re-open the railroad eastbound. It looks like the last car is a ballast car. We stopped off at Newburg after driving down to Crawford County to pick up a Mark Twain Forest cedar tree for our backyard. By the way, that tree thrived, and is still doing fine in our former house's backyard. Ken
Nice photograph, Ken. Aside from an old wooden caboose that was at a park in Chaffee, MO, my first and only experience with sitting in an active Frisco caboose was one of the new bay-window jobs during Chaffee's "Frisco Days" in August, 1980. This is one of the Consolidated Mechanical Shops home-built cabooses, correct? I wish my folks had thought to take along a camera! Best Regards,
Chris, Yes, this is a CMS bay-window caboose. Sorry about the grainy photograph. Wish I would have had a better camera with me. The idled train stretched up into the bluff area and I could not get a shot of the power. Ken
Caboose SLSF 1727 One of the only surviving Frisco photographs I still have. Here is a blurred photograph of caboose SLSF 1727 rolling westbound through the Geyer Road / Windsor Spring crossing. The date is the spring of 1980. At the time, there were two gas stations on the old commuter shelter's plot - a Shell full-service, and a Site quick-serv.
Wow! Memories of the past! Whatever happened to Site? Another brand was Mars. Wonder what happened to them? K
I do not think that it was a Site station, especially by 1980, but cannot remember what brand it sold. George Couture who ran the Shell station had a fine collection of Lionel train cars in the office. They were mostly Shell tank cars, of course! The whole plot is now a Phillips 66 operation with a car wash on the east end and a convenience store where the Shell station was.
That second station changed hands a couple times before it was torn down. I remember Site and Fina - the Fina chain was affiliated with Gulf oil in the 1970s and 1980s Couture's Shell lasted at least until 1989 or 1990. George loved working on my first car, a 1976 Formula Firebird.
