Caboose SLSF 1714 - BN 11689 Caboose SLSF 1714 - BN 11689 1) BN 11689 - Malaga, WA. Photograph dated 2/1884. Photograph by Brian Ambrose. 2) BN 11689 - Springfield, MO. Photograph dated 12/26/1985. 3) BN 11689 - Lamar, MO. Photograph dated 5/12/1997. 4) BN 11689 - Lamar, MO. Photograph dated 10/11/2007.
I am looking for some information and or photographs of caboose SLSF 1714. Here is what I know: a) The caboose currently sets in Lamar City park, Lamar, MO. b) It was built 5/1974 from a Pullman-Standard PS-1 40' box car. c) It wore green paint at some point. d) It was retired 12/1985. Also, did it ever were the Mandarin orange and white paint scheme? I have not been able to find photographs, so if anyone has any of it not in BN paint that would be great. Ethan
Caboose SLSF 1714 has been on display in Lamar, MO since its retirement. The outside appearance has been maintained with a couple coats of paint through the years. I took a photograph of it in the snow today that I wanted to share.
Does anyone know whether the railroad plated over the windows before donating it, or did the city do that?
I cannot remember clearly on the lower windows. I know when I was a kid it was open and the windows up in the cupola were the original sliding windows. I think the lower windows were still open at the time. Unsurprisingly, kids started vandalizing the thing so they locked it up and sealed up the windows.
