Since Trains Newswire is where I saw it first, that's where I'm swiping it from:

The National Railway Historical Society awarded 14 Railway Heritage Grants totaling $34,000 during the 2006 annual convention in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Grants were awarded to organizations in 12 different states. Four grants were awarded to NRHS Chapters and 10 to non-NRHS organizations. The entire $34,000 came from donations to the Railway Heritage Grants program from individuals and corporations. Recipients and grant amounts are:

*Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, better known as the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden, Colo., $2,000 to restore The Navajo, a 1937 observation passenger car on the then-new Santa Fe Super Chief.

*Wanatah Historical Society Museum, Wanatah, Ind., $2,000 to the restoration of 1888 Nickel Plate Road wooden caboose No. 1090.

*Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, which operates the Western Railway Museum at Suisan City, Calif., $3,000 to assist with the cost of catenary materials for six display tracks inside the Loring Jensen Memorial car house.

*Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum, opeated by the Bradford NRHS chapter, $2,500 to rebuild the interlocking mechanism for the BJ tower restoration. This will demonstrate how the switching function was preformed in the tower when the levers were moved.

*Ann Brown Lee Hobgood, Burlington, N.C., $2,500 to the complete renovation and outfitting of a 1970 N&W caboose located adjacent to the historic 1857 depot in City Park, downtown Burlington, N.C.

*Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad, Boone, Iowa, $2,000 to assist in the restoration of a wooden drovers caboose built in 1891 and operated on the Chicage Great Western railway. Number CGW 202 is believed to be one of only two remaining drovers cabooses in existence.

*Boston Street Railway Association Inc., Boston, Mass., $2,000 for reconstruction of one side of Boston Elevated Railway Co. car No. 5706, built by J.G. Brill Co. in 1924.

*Red Springs & Northern Foundation, Parkton, N.C., $2,000 to return a Fairbanks-Morse locomotive to operating condition.

*Railway & Heritage Museum, operated by the Central Texas Chapter, Temple, Texas, $2,000 for the preservation of photographs, negatives, and slides in two collections received from the Santa Fe Historical Railway and Modeling Society.

*Yaquina Pacific Railroad Historical Society, operated by the Yaquina Pacific Chapter, Toledo, Ore., $2,000 to the design and construction of a 40-foot self-guided interpretive timeline exhibit of the building of the Oregon Pacific Railroad 1870-1892.

*Railways to Yesterday, better known as the Rockhill Trolley Museum in Rockhill Furnace, Pa., $3,000 for material and contract labor to reupholster seats and cushions in the current restoration of a 1909 Kuhlman interurban car, Chicago, Aurora and Elgin No. 315.

*Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Association, Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith, Ark., $2,000 to aid in the restoration of Fort Smith Light and Traction Companies Birney Safety car No. 205 that was built by Cincinnati Car Company in 1919.

*Rosenberg Railroad Museum, Rosenberg, Texas, $3,000 for the restoration of 16 second floor windows in interlocking Tower 17, the last traditionally staffed interlocking tower in Texas.

*Rochester Chapter, Rochester, N.Y., $4,000 for materials to construct a new rail siding on museum property to store a matched Budd-built 7-car train set from the 1941 New York Central Empire State Express.

The list of grant awards for 2006 has now been posted on NRHS.com.

The total amount of money that NRHS has been able to award in grants over the years is now well over $300,000 and all of this money has come from donations to the Society.

Thanks to all who have supported this program in the past and thanks to those of you who will support it in the future.

Bob H

What counts as a drovers caboose?

Mid-Continent has ex-C&NW 10802:
http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/ca ... 10802.html

Black Hills Central has ex-C&NW 10800:
http://www.1880train.com/pr_intothewest.html

If no others exist anywhere, then I count three.

Erich

What was the eventual fate of the Cotton Belt drover's caboose once owned by the Empire State Railway Museum, way back in the day? I remember seeing it at Middletown, N.Y. in 1964.

We got one too. NC&StL #41 and its made of wood.