Caboose SLSF 103

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  1. mark

    mark Staff Member Staff Member

    The current issue of the Meteor, Volume 2, Number 2, June 2010 has raised some questions.

    Tracing the linage of Frisco cabooses is a challenge due to incomplete company records. In its continual quest to reduce expenses the railroad disposed of many older records we now consider important. Cabooses with non-consecutive numbers and incomplete renumbering records further complicates the linage of many cars. Subsequent new owners, relocations, rebuilding and repainting further contribute to the difficulty tracking individual cars.

    Respected author and modeler Richard E. Napper has an interesting article on Frisco side door caboose SLSF 1150. In the article the heritage of the caboose prior to the 1968 system renumbering is indicated as car SLSF 139.

    Mike Condren on his Frisco website has a photograph of a similar style side door caboose SLSF 103. This is the fifth photograph down, dated 4/1962, taken in Aurora, MO. Please see http://condrenrails.com/Frisco Catalog/Caboose.htm.

    Further, there was a preserved caboose SLSF 1139 located at the former Frisco Museum in Springfield. Was this the former SLSF 139, renumbered to SLSF 1139? Unfortunately, after the demise of the museum this car is now on the missing list.

    This raises several questions. Was there more than one side door caboose of this design? Was SLSF 103 renumbered to SLSF 139 and later SLSF 1150?

    If anyone can provide additional information or photographs to help clear up the mystery, please contribute.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks!

    Mark
     
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