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the Missouri Pacific Cabooses

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Missouri Pacific Cabooses
    Location & Information Date Photo Credit

11000 - 1254 (250 cars?)
Built in 1951 and 1953 by MP at Sedalia MO.
• Centered cupola; 34 feet, 2 inches over coupler pulling faces; 40,000 pounds light weight.

UP Assigned Class CA-23

  Grandview MO    Steve Barker
 Prineville OR Oct 20, 2002  Robert D. Ulberg
  Railroad Museum
Galveston TX
 July 22, 2004  Dragoon68
PWJ
 
     
Austin TX  1972  J Stephen Foster
Lincoln NE  Oct 1975  Glen Beans
 Houston TX 1973  J Stephen Foster
 Houston TX
S Yards
 1973  J Stephen Foster

13506-13508 (3 cars) Off-center cupola

Built in 1956 by International Car (Lot 258) as EJ&E 534, 517, 507; sold to C&EI in May 1964.

Rebuilt in 1971 by MP at Sedalia, Missouri.

; 41 feet, 8-1/2 inches over coupler pulling faces; 53,100 pounds light weight.

Assigned UP Class CA-25

13506   Independence MO
on display next to the Missouri Pacific depot on the still-active Pixley Branch in the background
 Dec 2001  Karl Lee Sollmann
         
         


13515-13574 (60 cars)

13515-13544 built in 1971 by International Car Corp. (Lot 1763).
13545-13574 built in 1972 by International Car Corp. (Lot 1800).
Extended vision, off-center cupola; 41 feet, 7-3/4 inches over coupler pulling faces; 52,300 pounds light weight.

Assigned UP Class CA-29

 

13525  Evansville, IN  2005  T Barrows
         
13300  Taylor TX    J Stephen Foster
13430 Lincoln NE Sept 1974  Glen Beans
13430  Houston TX
TN&O Jct
 1972  J Stephen Foster
13446 Taylor TX    J Stephen Foster
13466  Houston TX   1972  J Stephen Foster
13491 Cozad NE July 1977   Glen Beans
 13597 Poplar Bluff MO
Amtrak Station and Museum
  Apr 26, 2002  Ed Mertes/ARCHES
MP ??  Houston TX    J Stephen Foster


Short Bodied Caboose - for Main Line Service - NOT Transfer service

The following was posted to Trainorders.com on July 21, 2005:
These are not transfer cabooses at all. These are regular road cabooses that the Mopac made hundreds of and they were seen on almost every Mopac train in the 1980s. Not very common for transfer cabooses. They were classed as and used as road cabooses for most of their service life. The 13xxx nunbering signifies mainline road duty and one was even tested by the Union Pacific in the development of their CA-11 caboose which I've never heard called a transfer caboose. International Car proposed the first 50 cars in 1976, saying they could be built at $41,887 a car. MP never actually placed an order with International Car for any cabooses, deciding instead to build the whole roster of "platform-type bay-window cabooses" as they are referred to in the official drawings. These plans were later revised slightly and copied by the UP for their CA-11, CA-11A, and CA-12 class cabooses. Home built in MP's Desoto Shops and finished in the Sedelia Shops, they were the last cabooses built by the Missouri Pacific and lasted into the UP merger, and a few even remain today. The reason they were so small is because they did not need all the extra space, and furnishings that older cabooses had, in turn this saved them money.

 

Bay Window
MP 13665-13714
50 built in 1976

Became UP Class CA-32

 13665  on the
Belt Railway of Chicago
 August 1984 Jim Hebner
Short Body Bay Window
MP 13542 (prototype), 13715-13814
101 built 1977-1978

Became UP Class CA-33

         


Short Body Bay Window
13000-13039 Nov 1981
13040-13081 Dec 1981
13083-13099 built in January 1982

Became UP class CA-34

 13034  Chiloquin OR Oct 19, 2002  Robert D. Ulberg
   13075 Orange TX  May 25, 2004   Dan


Short Body Bay Window
150 built in 1980

13815-13964
Became UP Class CA-35

Seattle WA
Feb 24, 2001
Robert D. Ulberg 
  Portola CA
  8/9/02
 Robert D. Ulberg 
St Louis Museum of Transportation
2009
unknown
St Louis Museum of Transportation
2009
unknown
13895 Railroad Museum
Galveston TX
 July 22, 2004  Dragoon68
PWJ
13900 Seattle WA   Feb 24, 2001 Robert D. Ulberg 
13926 Seattle WA   Feb 24, 2001 Robert D. Ulberg 
         
15 SBW converted to MOW Service in 1995-96 by UP
 7503 Gorham IL   May 15, 2002 Myron Dudenbostel
    MP 7503 mow caboose at Gorham, IL on 05/15/02    
Gorham IL 
ex-MP 13823 
 Sept 6, 1997 Myron Dudenbostel 
7506 Chester IL    April 17, 1996 Myron Dudenbostel 
  7506 Valley Junction TX
on a work train on the
Navasota sub
 Nov 8, 2002  Bryan Flint
7506  Council Bluffs IA
ex13794
 Jan 22, 2006  Paul Rome
7509 Council Bluffs IA
wrecked
never painted green
Sept 13, 2007 unknown
7510  Gorham IL   May 15, 2002 Myron Dudenbostel 
7511  Gorham IL 
ex-MP 13056
July 16, 1996  Myron Dudenbostel 
7512 Boone IA April 1999 John Harker

nice article on MP SBW Trainweb

nice MP caboose info on UtahRails



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This archive was first accessed Jan 1998