I found this BN caboose (BN 10147) in Liberal Mo at the park with the old Frisco Depot. She has been locked up, so she cannot escape. Unfortunatley, others have gotten to her So the buring question is, what is her Frisco# ?
Likely not ever a Frisco cab - the side cupola windows are too close together. The Frisco's International Car wide-vision cabs (200's/1200's) had the cupola side windows spaced apart by a couple of feet or so. Frisco followed up and did the same on their home-built 1400's. The Frisco home-built 1700's, however, had this style cupola with closely spaced windows, though they were numbered BN 11675-11699 when they were "gangreened". But, could there have been a BN renumbering of these to BN 10xxx? She needs a paint job for sure! Have them paint it up in Frisco colors anyway, like they did to the GN cab (or NP?) down in Rolla at the former depot site, which they then numbered SLSF 1501, which is a match to my old friend 4-8-2 SLSF 1501 sitting there about a mile up the line at Frisco Park. Ken
I'm incorrect in my posting above. BOTH the home built SLSF 1400 and the home built SLSF 1700 series cabs had the closer spacing on the side cupola windows, not just the 1700's. The 200/1200's had the wide gap between the windows on the cupola sides. Sorry about that. Ken
This is GN X107. Check out the website below. http://cencalrails.railfan.net/gnX107.html Ship IT on the Frisco! Rick
The lamar park has a caboose that used to be BN and you could go in it but then they locked it up. Then a year or 2 ago they painted it (kinda) to firsco. I don't think the red is quite right and there is only a small frisco herald on it insted of full detailing but it still looks nice.
