C&EI Caboose #unknown

: Alamogordo, NM. Sep. 9, 2015

This steel caboose is found at the Toy Train Depot at Alamogordo, NM. According to the information attached to the caboose, it’s one of the cabooses built for Chesapeake & Ohio by Magor Car Corporation between 1937 and 1949. They were later sold to Pere Marquette, Missouri Pacific and to Chicago & Eastern Illinois.

But its steps are not the cast C&O style but the conventional passenger car style; it more looks like one of six proper C&EI cabooses #1 to 6 built by American Car and Foundry in 1947.

Its trucks have C&EI name cast on it. But the date cast on it is not 1947 but 1950. C&EI indeed built fifteen cabooses #7 to 21 at its shop in 1950, but their body style is quite different from this caboose. Trucks might have been subsequently replaced. Anyway, I decided to introduce this car as C&EI caboose.

* 1959 photo of C&O #90110 at Fallen Flag site;
* 1974 photo of C&EI #1 at Railroad Picture Archives site;

: Alamogordo, NM. Sep. 9, 2015


この鋼製カブースはニューメキシコ州AlamogordoにあるToy Train Depotという博物館・遊園地で見つけた。以前はマクドナルドの店舗においてパーティスペースとして使われていたらしい。付設の説明板ではC&O発注の車両だとされているが、ステップの形状・台車の刻印などからC&EI自身が発注した車両だと思われる。