Mine was much lower tech - a house mover with dollies, air jacks, cribbing, and using the hydraulics of a dozer tractor. Lifted it up, put on blocks, rolled the trucks out from under, replaced with house mover dollies, and towed with a pickup truck. At my site, one truck was put on the short length of track and the caboose placed on it, blocked on one end. THen the second truck was rolled under and caboose lowered onto it. I have had it 25 years, first having some work done by a contractor on windows, siding, etc. Last year I had to have redone, new siding (both sides). I’ve kept the roof good by using roof coating every other year. Last year I discovered this new Flex Seal they are advertising, and it is great - like a liquid rubber. I’m going to continue that every other year. Inside still good. Best use here (Wisconsin) is summer, though I can heat with wood stove. Everyone should have one! TEB
Tom - thanks for your reply. I had not heard of ARCHES. I will look them up. Congratulations on owning a caboose. It's a big step to adopt one. The stress I went through getting the truck and cranes coordinated on both ends took a year off my life - only because two days before the move was to happen the crane company on my end called and said they wouldn't be able to supply the cranethey had promised! Turns out another, multi-day job had presented itself and they wanted that job! I had to scramble and find another crane operator in a nearby town. Fortunately it all worked out.
Alan What a truly great story of the good new life this handsome waycar is now to be leading, with the wind of a truly great provenance at its back!
A number of other CBQ wood cabooses made their way across to the Pacific Slope to land in Sacramento and the Napa Valley. At least some of them might have come early enough to be on their own wheels; but I bet that those cars who did not took the easy way through Wyoming on I-80, not over Loveland! ( Ken Martin probably knows the details).
It is surely true that cars, locomotives, etc. etc. that last operable, or near operable over the many decades have been replaced piece of piece so that only a few pieces are indeed original, if any are indeed at all (the railroads were not sentimental). However, just as ships in law and in tradition retain their original names and being even though each and every single plank and nail has been replaced over time (e.g. USS Constitution), this caboose still can in the same vein claim its 1880 origins.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento, CA 95864
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