Re: [CBQ] Burlington & Missouri River Railroad caboose

["mmar_62" <mmar62@hotmail.com>]

Hi, Alan.

First fo all, sorry if I enter in this discussion a bit late.

I'm not an expert on CB&Q cabooses, but as I far as I see there are many differences between the two vehicles in these photos, so my thesis is that they are of a different series or even of different builders.

See the number of vertical wood planks on the sides of the upper window: in the 23 they are six at each side plus the border one, in the 144 there are many more (and thinner ones). The same can be said in the number of wood planks between the three down windows.

See also the style of the horizontal stripe of wood above the little "corner windows" that you note. It's totally different.

If originally they were identical vehicles, some very big reconstruction was done in the 23.

Sorry if my observations don't shed some light on your discussion.

Best regards,

Mario (a CB&Q fan form Chile, South America)

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B&MR Caboose 144, c . 1895, CRRM coll.-1.jpg
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