I'm glad to see this caboose has been saved. Steamtown had sent me an e-mail well over a year ago, maybe two, that indicated that this caboose was up for grabs and wanted to know if we were interested. We were, it there was no large purchase price. I spoke to a gentleman from the company dealing with it and waited. A woman from the same place called and I asked her "Is it being sold or donated?" she said she would get back to me and that was the last I heard of it.
Very glad to see it go to Carbondale as it is indeed in home turf. We would like to have had it here, but the D&H only came to Elmira after Conrail started, so its new home is more appropriate. Steamtown would have been a good location as well, and it could possibly have been operated, but would it have sat outdoors and deteriorated or been placed in the roundhouse?
Attached are two pix that were sent to me of the caboose.
Rob P
Chemung Valley RHS
Elmira
www.chemungvalleyrailway.org
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