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Caboose SLSF 1200

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  1. roger

    roger Guest

    Caboose SLSF 1200 - BN 11530

    Caboose SLSF 1200 - BN 11530 - Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated 9/1985.
     

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  2. roger

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    Caboose SLSF 1200 - BN 11530

    Caboose SLSF 1200 - BN 11530 - Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated 3/1986.
     

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  3. meteor910

    meteor910 2009 Engineer of the Year Staff Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Look at eBay listing 230873019970, a nice slide photograph of caboose SLSF 1200.

    It is the class unit of the Frisco extended or wide vision caboose fleet, renumbered from its original number caboose SLSF 200.

    What kind of truck is this puppy sitting on?

    Do not know if I have seen this truck before.

    Sure enough, this truck is on several other photographs I have of caboose SLSF 1200.

    But, not on its new delivery photograph as caboose SLSF 200, which had the standard truck found on this series of Frisco caboose. I do not know what its name is.

    This different truck must have been some Frisco experiment of a different type after caboose 200 - SLSF 1200 was in service.

    Got to do some research!

    Ken
     
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  4. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    Ken,

    That is a screaming strange if not weird looking truck its riding on.

    Do not remember seeing those anywhere.

    Tom Holley
     
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  5. Karl

    Karl 2008 Engineer of the Year Frisco.org Supporter

    I believe that those are Rockwell LMF trucks.

    The Kansas City Southern (KCS) or Haywire used them on its stainless steel bay window cabooses.
     
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  6. Oldguy

    Oldguy Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Yep, Rockwell High Speed trucks.

    On Overland Models web site, they show the same caboose on a different date, angle, etc. and a photograph in a collection from some guy named Rick. ;-)
     
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  7. FriscoFriend (Bob Hoover RIP 4/12/2018)

    FriscoFriend (Bob Hoover RIP 4/12/2018) Passed Away April 12, 2018 Frisco.org Supporter

    Were there any traces of peanut butter on the print?
     
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  8. meteor910

    meteor910 2009 Engineer of the Year Staff Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Yep, sounds correct.

    I see on the internet that it is indeed a Rockwell Hi-Speed truck, and that the Kansas City Southern (KCS) also used them.

    Overland Models makes them in HO-scale.

    I have several photographs of caboose SLSF 1200, not as caboose SLSF 200, with those trucks underneath.

    Never noticed that until I saw the photograph on eBay today. You learn something every day!

    Sort of reminds me of the Alco Blunt diesel locomotive switcher truck in appearance.

    Ken
     
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  9. Oldguy

    Oldguy Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Maybe a bit of Nutella??
     
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  10. yardmaster

    yardmaster Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    Caboose SLSF 1200

    Regarding the photograph of caboose SLSF 1200 on The Frisco Archive, this reminds me a lot of the photograph of caboose SLSF 239 at Rolla, MO in 1968 by Mike Condren.

    Please see the following link.

    http://condrenrails.com/Frisco Catalog/Caboose.htm

    I would guess that maybe this was "cut" and "pasted" from another piece of rolling stock?

    Roger Taylor also has some photographs of caboose SLSF 1200 in its BN days showing some interesting quilt work appearances.

    Best Regards,
     
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