Alan,
I have been to Cross Orchards and seen the caboose and other cars there. You
guys have done some fantastic work. I had never seen the caboose as found and
can tell that was a lot of work.
With you and your friends I am sure the waycar is in good hands.
Ken Martin
C&Sng modeler also
> On Apr 12, 2020, at 9:01 AM, Alan Kraus <ak77224@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Incidentally, I have some good local resources on caboose restoration. I
> belong to the Rio Grande Chapter of the NRHS and over the past 3 decades, our
> small group has located, acquired, moved, and restored several pieces of
> rolling stock from the narrow gauge Uintah Railway - a short line which ran
> from western Colorado into eastern Utah to haul gilsonite. They transferred
> the gilsonite to the then standard gauge Denver and Rio Grande at Mack,
> Colorado. The Uintah had three cabooses. We have the only survivor..Uintah
> RWY #3. We spent many years, working a few hours on our weekly workday and
> were able to restore the caboose to it's former glory. That included
> procuring trucks, drawbars.....all of the hardware other than the ladders and
> grab irons which were on the car when we found it. The car sat on the ground
> since 1934 when the Uintah folded and the frame had rotted out so it was
> dismantled down to the frame and restored from there.
>
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