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| Author: | gmray [ Thu May 14, 2020 7:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
FIVE (5) CABOOSES AVAILABLE, $2,000 each, from the American Railway Caboose Historical Educational Society (ARCHES). These cabooses must leave ARCHES' property before the end of May, and purchaser must provide transportation. Please call Richard Eichhorst directly (and immediately) if interested: 314-631-3131 (Subject line changed by mod) |
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| Author: | Rick Rowlands [ Thu May 14, 2020 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Should this be in Classifieds? |
Two weeks to find buyers and arrange transportation? Good lord. |
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| Author: | Luther Brefo [ Thu May 14, 2020 9:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Should this be in Classifieds? |
Rick Rowlands wrote: Two weeks to find buyers and arrange transportation? Good lord. My thoughts exactly... |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Thu May 14, 2020 9:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
So... what are they? Steel? Wood? Road? |
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| Author: | gmray [ Thu May 14, 2020 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
Please direct your questions to the organization in the request. I got this yesterday and was asked to place it on this site as a means to help the organization. I presume there are underlying issues that we're not aware of. Thanks! |
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| Author: | RDGRAILFAN [ Thu May 14, 2020 5:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
Link to the organizations web site http://arches.org/ not much information regarding equipment, annual meeting pictures has some shots of cabin cars but no detail |
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| Author: | PMC [ Thu May 14, 2020 5:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
RDGRAILFAN wrote: Link to the organizations web site http://arches.org/ not much information regarding equipment, annual meeting pictures has some shots of cabin cars but no detail https://www.flickr.com/photos/railroade ... 1792811323 Looks like it is Kirkwood, Missouri (definitely MO, and I did a search on the names listed which all pointed to Kirkwood) in these photos, which may or may not contain the cabooses they are unloading. I see a Missouri-Illinois wood waycar, a BN and a Family Lines steel wide vision, a Frisco steel, and an SP bay window, plus that red thing with the reporting marks painted out, but who knows what they are selling. The M-I car is definitely a rarity. |
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| Author: | PMC [ Thu May 14, 2020 6:43 pm ] | |||
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! | |||
Someone on AOTT facebook is saying it is these five sitting in Granite City IL, one of which is former CGW:
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| Author: | eze240 [ Thu May 14, 2020 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
If these are the ones I think they are, they had been on Ozarks website for several years until the end of last year.... Nobody was buying at the prices then, so now it's a fire sale? |
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| Author: | Dave [ Thu May 14, 2020 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
This isn't a good time to break with tradition. Becoming rational at the last minute is SOP. |
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| Author: | JayZee [ Fri May 15, 2020 4:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
I don't want to stray the topic as time is of the essence if any of these cabeese gets saved, however I googled Granite City, IL and on the southeast side of town (where the cabeese are im supposing) I ran across a railyard packed with all kinds of passenger cars and even what appears to be a complete Zephyr. I wasn't aware all that stuff was stashed there. Does anyone have info on whats all there and why? Here is the yard zoomed in on the Zephyr https://earth.google.com/web/search/Gra ... GZGhmYUlfA |
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| Author: | jayrod [ Fri May 15, 2020 6:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
That’s Gateway Rail Services, a passenger car rebuilder. |
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| Author: | Ed Kapuscinski [ Fri May 15, 2020 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
The internet has noticed. 
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| Author: | Mobil1fan [ Fri May 15, 2020 9:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
Dave wrote: This isn't a good time to break with tradition. Becoming rational at the last minute is SOP. Alright - How do we break out of that cycle? |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Fri May 15, 2020 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Available Cabeese - Preservation Emergency! |
To be fair about this: My understanding of the situation (through some evidence) was that these cabooses ended up in the situation they are in NOT because of the actions of the ARCHES, but rather because of an individual using the name of the society incorrectly, and then having title dumped upon the society by the member. I have never seen any indication that these cabooses were part of any formal "society" preservation project. There was mention that "the society had several surplus examples for sale," with the phone number and name of the individual in question, in the "Captive Cabeese" listing book. So, therefore, although the results of the ARCHES may be called into question, the plot like of Ed's "meme" does NOT apply to this situation. |
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