Here is a photo from around 1974 of the Carroll Park and Western bobber caboose at Bloomsburg, PA. It was re-lettered and numbered #172 for the Carbon & Schuylkill Railroad for it's role in the Molly Maguires Movie. After the movie was done filming in 1968 it was left in this scheme. I'm looking for more info on this caboose and it's past. I know it was built by the PRR in Altoona around 1906. I would like to find out it's original PRR number, when it was retired and where it ended up after service with the PRR until it was acquired by the Carroll Park and Western railroad in the late 1950s or 1960. By looks of the caboose in the photo the years haven't been kind to it's paint. Eventually it ended up at the Red Caboose Motel in Strasburg around 1979 and lettered for the LIRR, currently it is painted yellow and lettered for the Southern Pacific Lines. If anyone has any other info on the Carroll Park and Western RR I'd love to hear from you for my book I am working on about it.
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