Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080421 Monday April 21, 2008

WP668 Caboose in the news

We just received the current issue of The Western Pacific Headlight (Issue 35, Spring 2008). This is the official publication of the Feather River Rail Society (FRRS) and the Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society (WPRRHS), based in Portola, California. The back pages 22-23 of this issue show six black and white photos of "WP Wooden Caboose Photos" taken in 1973-1975 by Peter Arnold. Our own WP668 is one of them. This is the same WP668 14 September 1974 photo also published on p. 122: Western Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Jim Eager, 2001 (Publisher: Morning Sun Books; ISBN-10: 158248063X, ISBN-13: 978-1582480633)

Here it is in color (published with permission of Morning Sun Books):
WP668, in 1974, Peter Arnold

All six photos in the current Western Pacific Headlight issue are of steel strapped wooden bay window WP cabooses. This group was originally built as boxcars around 1916 and converted to caboose service around 1943 (for World War II). They are numbers 643, 645, 668, 679, 680, and 683. Looking at the Central California Rails Caboose Index W, at least three cabooses pictured (645, 668, and 679) still exist. WP645 and WP679 are in Portola and, of course, WP668 is in our San Jose backyard.

Posted at 08:38PM Apr 21, 2008 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains  | 

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