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Caboose Shortage - 1959?

Discussion relating to the NH and its subsidiaries (NYW&B, Union Freight Railroad, Connecticut Company, steamship lines, etc.). up until its 1969 inclusion into the Penn Central merger. This forum is also for the discussion of efforts to preserve former New Haven equipment, artifacts and its history. You may also wish to visit www.nhrhta.org for more information.
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Caboose Shortage - 1959?

  by gawlikfj
 
I received my Shoreliner (vol.32.issue 1 ) today and on page 17 in Brookfield ,it mentions about a Heavyweight coach being used as a caboose on a Westbound freight at S. S. 199 in Brookfield ,CT. on June 21st,1959 .
Why wasn't there enough NE-5's or NE-6's in 1959 to cover this and other freight's ?
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