It may have been spotted before, but today I saw an old BN caboose BN 12115. It is in a junk yard in Northview, MO. It is along the old U.S. 66 Highway right of way. I checked the records of Frisco to BN numbers, it does not look like an old Frisco unit. Darn!! Photographs to follow. Sorry it took a few days! Had to pack to head to Buffalo, MO for the Scottish Festival! Enjoy! Dan
Found another old BN caboose. No number, fresh green paint, in Buffalo, MO behind a Frontier cabin museum on U.S. 65 Highway.
Caboose 12115 is not a Frisco car. Note that the cupola windows are set together in the center, not spaced out to the ends of the cupola.
These cabooses that do not have BN numbers would need closer inspection. After the merger the BN welded a blank metal plate over each side of the cupola and then plugged in a center window thus making them like all of their other cupola cabooses. If you can, get a close enough look at the truck side frames and see if they have SLSF cast into them. The caboose at the Baxter Springs Historical Museum was a classic example of this modification and if visiting there check it out.
Way to go Dan! And Bob that is good information on what the BN did to our Frisco cabooses, I had not known that. By the way that BN 12575 I think was bad ordered right here in Grand Junction, CO, the result of a collision. I think I was at an investigation about that caboose.
