The interior tool boxes of caboose SLSF 1249 were welded shut when she was sitting at Leon, Kansas. Today we ground the welds off and found a few treasures inside, 2 coupler knuckles, some spare batteries and 4 hoses. Two of the hoses have a red band and they are marked STL-SF along with BF Goodrich and the date codes. I thought it was cool that they were marked STL-SF instead of SL-SF. One is dated 1-1962, and the other 9-1965. I love these hoses, will be cleaning them, repainting the ends, and will use them on caboose SLSF 1291 when she is finished. Now all of us HO-scale modelers can put a tiny bit of reddish pink paint on our Frisco caboose brake hoses! LOL Fun day.
Hello, As a kid growing up in Leon, KS, I spent many hours inside that caboose playing until the city blocked the doors and windows. I would love to see it. I was wondering if you completed the caboose SLSF 1249 restoration and where it may be located? During my teenage years, I worked for Fleming Feed and Grain. The old Frisco depot was still there at that time. It was a storage warehouse then. I spent a lot of time in that old depot. I also loaded many rail cars with grain on the old Frisco tracks until they were washed out by the Halloween flood of 1998, west of Augusta, KS.
Caboose SLSF 1249 is still in Tulsa, OK and it was never restored. I had good intentions but after I got caboose SLSF 1249 there were 2 more Frisco cabooses that became available. They are cabooses SLSF 1288 and SLSF 1291. They were in better condition than caboose SLSF 1249, but they needed a few parts. Caboose SLSF 1249 has provided window frames, bathroom walls, couplers, door latches and handles, coupler lift bars, end railing pieces, and countless other detail parts to the restoration of cabooses SLSF 1288 and SLSF 1291. Caboose SLSF 1249 still has the body intact, has the trucks and it could be used as a cool storage building or lake cabin or some other cool thing. I would love to give it to someone or some group that had a reasonable use for her.
