Rail Legacy Group Waite Park, MN/caboose project

Sloan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:24 am

What's a "domed top" caboose?

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Sloan

caboose9 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:15 am

Sloan asked, "What's a 'domed top' caboose?"

GN X310/BN 11444: http://rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=328615

Sloan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:23 am

Thanks for the enlightenment. I've never seen anything like this.

Sloan

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

caboose9 wrote:

Sloan asked, "What's a 'domed top' caboose?"

GN X310/BN 11444: http://rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=328615

Roger -

I think these are better described as "streamlined cupola" cabooses. There were a number of railroads that used them, both center cupola and, like GN X310, offset cupola.

Les

Terry Dempsey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:02 pm

How James J. Hill had a vision to get the railways all the way up to St. Cloud and then all the way to Seattle, Wash. up to Vancouver and he got it up there in 1983.

I never knew James J. Hill completed the GN a scant 25 years ago at the grand old age of 135 years-old. Quite a feat if I must say so myself. The more you know......