Ok, we are finally getting a handle on this!
I think its now very reliable and confirmed that:
LV 95041 - ex-CR 18616, steel, cupola, built 1937, currently Catskill Mountain Railroad number 643.
Despite the theories earlier in this thread, the Catskill Mountain RR did *not* in fact have their caboose incorrectly numbured!
All the confusion has come from this list:
http://crcaboose.railfan.net/renum.htm#N-5G
Which simply contains some incorrect data..
Its quite possible Conrail messed up somewhere..perhaps that list, on the Conrail caboose site, came directly from Conrail,
and the list does not match reality, in respect to one caboose at least, and probably at least two..
Perhaps the list was once "official" and the cabs got numbured "wrong"..or the cabs were numbured correctly and the list
was written wrong..who knows!
but we do now know the cabooses dont exactly match the list, which by now, means the list
is simply wrong, regardless of the original conrail renumburing intent..
So we have found "The Real 95041"..She is Ex conrail 18616, now with the Catskill Mountail RR..
That leaves one more mystery..the Real Conrail 18617, for sale a few years ago, the East Penn Railway 18617:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1027951
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1517608
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1517606
Where is Conrail 18617 now? and which LV caboose number is she?
and it looks like the photos that say "EPRY 8617" are ALSO wrong!
Its EPRY 18617..the number 1 is somewhat obscured, and a photographer must have mis-read the number as 8617..
its likely there is no such thing as EPRY 8617..it should probably be only EPRY 18617.
LV Caboose list:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Scotty ... umber.html
thanks,
Scot