• another caboose gone:-(

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Discussion related to the operations and equipment of Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) from 1976 to its present operations as Conrail Shared Assets. Official web site can be found here: CONRAIL.COM.

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  by Noel Weaver
 
zoomdude wrote:a guy that i work with sent me this pic. i guess they were working in detroit at mack yard and sum1 came n there and lit the caboose on fire while train crews were in the yard. the nerve of sum ppl/

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This could have been the stove/heater. They did this once in a while if
nobody was there to watch them.
Noel Weaver

  by Otto Vondrak
 
Where was this? What car was it?

-otto-

  by uhaul
 
Too bad about about the caboose. At least the caboose was not under the overpass when this happened.

  by CSX Conductor
 
Now the crews will get claims for shoving without a caboose, gotta think positive. :wink:

  by GOLDEN-ARM
 
I'd claim 2 hours, hack without windows. Another 2 hours, no desk or interior lights. Another 2 hours, non-functioning stove. This thing is a "claim magnet"............. :P
  by H.F.Malone
 
"I'd claim 2 hours, hack without windows. Another 2 hours, no desk or interior lights. Another 2 hours, non-functioning stove. This thing is a "claim magnet"............. "

Let's see what would probably happen to those claims---

"There are visible window openings on the side of the car. Denied."

"There is obviously plenty of illumination (from a source other than electricity) in the car. Denied."

"There is obviously a functioning stove and plenty of heat in the car. Denied."

G-A, is that about the usual result of creative time-slipping... :-) ??

Looks like "Fun With Fusees" by the local urchins. Or possibly that good old Vapor Caban heater-- "Is the damn oil flowin' or what? Can't see in the bottom of the stove, let 'er flow for a while and we'll come back and drop a fusee in and see if she lights then...."

Always make sure you have marshmallows and long sticks in your grip!! Be prepared!!

Aren't cell phone cameras amazing?

  by Otto Vondrak
 
What caboose and what location was this?

  by scotty269
 
Otto Vondrak wrote:What caboose and what location was this?
from the first reply:

detroit at mack yard

  by denvillerailfan
 
What was the caboose #?