Muley Type Cabooses - Photographs, Numbers, Build Dates, Models - Inquiry

Looks like a Roundhouse kit.

See posts by @rjthomas909 at the following for for examples of Muley cabooses you can build.

http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/workshop-wednesday.10880/page-94#post-82912

http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/workshop-wednesday.10880/page-112#post-86069

 

Frisco caboose SLSF 434 in Oswego, KS (1907).

John Chambers: We have a framed copy of this print on display at the Heart of the Heartlands Railroad Museum in Carona, KS.

It was donated by the late Gordon Garrett of Battlefield, MO.

 

Robert,

This is one of the few photograph examples that show a caboose train number indicator.

 

1/2 of a Muley caboose.

South Cold Springs, OK.

From the Frisco Rails Across OK Facebook Group.

 

What a picture. That looks like a huge undertaking when that was taking place.

 

(Colorized?) Image posted by Richard Crabtree in "Frisco Rails Across Oklahoma" on September 30, 2022. Photograph is courtesy of Kathy Taylor Spivey, captioned "Frisco Wreck in Ada, Oklahoma on April 19, 1947."

From the Post: A paving company using a boxcar had unloaded cement in the area and had spilled some on the tracks. Rain followed several days later causing the cement to harden creating an obstruction on the track. Frisco engine SLSF 1263 with 29 cars and a caboose hit the obstruction while pushing backwards on the track. The conductor was killed and the the front brakeman and flagman were injured.

Karl Brand's Notes: In compliance with SLSF Rule 103, the flagman had taken a position on the rear platform next to the conductor’s valve, and the conductor was atop the caboose on the running board.

Just before the caboose reached the point of the derailment, the head-end brakeman boarded the caboose through the side door. As he reached the rear platform, he saw the obstruction, and he called a warning to the flagman. The flagman was unable able to dump the air before the caboose derailed.

During the derailment, the conductor fell from the caboose’s roof, and sustained fatal injuries. Prior to the derailment, the engineer did not receive any warning from the conductor. It would seem that neither the conductor nor flagman viewed the obstruction to be dangerous.

Two days before the derailment, the section foreman operated his track car over the track without problem, and he did not believe that the hardened cement required removal.

 

Robert,

Indeed, a very poorly colorized image.

The image depicts a very somber scene. Below the side-door of the caboose a gurney can be seen which was used to bear the conductor’s body away from the accident site. On the left side of the photograph, several men are retrieving the conductor’s body. It is just another reminder that railroading is a dirty, hard, and dangerous job.

The train involved was a work extra, which consisted of 29 gondolas. Note the arch-bar trucks on the derailed gondola. At the time of the accident a second train was on the main line, and the accident derailed some of those cars, too.

 

Was the caboose scrapped after this?

 

It right-click saved fine on my Windows 7 machine.

Perhaps try opening it in a new tab and save from there?

 

I marvel at how closely the old Roundhouse side door caboose resembles this car.

I wonder why it was discontinued?

 

Maybe not Frisco, but certainly a good photograph to use as a modeling reference.

 

One from Tri-State Model Railroaders on Facebook (12-14-2023).

 

Again from an album that is on sale at E-Bay.

Think this is between Lenexa, KS and Spring Hill, KS.

Train is southbound.