Moving A Railroad Caboose!! Awesome Experience!!
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The word caboose was originally a nautical term meaning “a house on deck where the cooking is done.” As applied to trains, however, it meant the very last car. The train crew often used the roof of the caboose as an observation platform for detecting smoking brakes and other problems. The train caboose was also used variously as a bunkhouse, office, or kitchen. Advances in technology - such as detectors that scan the train’s wheels, take temperature readings, and relay that information to a central location - have rendered the caboose unnecessary.
Last spring at a memorial service for a lady well over 100 years old the story was told have she pushed for a CAboose for the Magnolia Heritage Society. . She managed, with help from a railroad salvage worker to get our caboose which now survived and refurnished by the Depot, now a museum in downtown Magnolia Texas.
Great video. I am a member of the Fort Wayne Railroad Society and we have a steel bay window NPR caboose, a wooden NPR caboose, and wooden Wabash caboose at our shop in New Heaven, Indiana. I helped to restore the Wabash caboose. We finished that last year.
Wow! A Nickel Plate caboose! Nicely done!
Thank you for saving train history, I loved watching this ❤
Awesome! Putting together an N Scale model RR. Wasn't going to put a caboose on it, but I definitely will now!
The Schlatter Boys have moved several pieces of railroad rolling stock for me from a Monon boxcar and a Monon transfer caboose and even the Monon Railroad's first diesel locomotive the DS-50 and they are highly skilled and professional in everything that they do... I wouldn't use anybody else but them for any future move that I need done.
NKP caboose 770 from the Indiana transportation museum closed in Noblesville Indiana after the city screwed them over. Almost certain I rode in that cupola once or twice.
The museum screwed themselves over with their terrible management and refusal to do anything the city asked them. Then proceeded to throw a huge stink acting like the victim when unsurprisingly the city got tired of the insubordination. Completely avoidable situation that they brought upon themselves.
@@TMC0610 This is true.
glad they saved the caboose from the wrecking crews!!
@@SuperKAgilityexactly right. They also wouldn't help other groups acquire the equipment
Very nicely done. We moved a caboose in Colorado, Strasburg Museum, as a matter, lots and lots of local support for the project.
Thanks for sharing preservation of history.
I wish I could have watched this in 92, I had to move one out from fairbanks to birch lake and get it to a property on the lake. Wound up being a 2 day job without having anything but a dozer and a lowboy. (We didn't set it on trucks, just bedded it in sand and dirt with blocking. ) have a great day.
My father and grandfather both worked the the old nickel plate railroad. Grandfather was kill in the switch yard in Delphos Ohio before I was born.
The old Nickel Plate, I grew up by the now abandoned line by Fish Lake, good memories.
I watched a caboose move in Canon City, CO about a dozen years ago. A crane picked up the whole thing, display track and all, in one go. They put it on a tandem axle equipment trailer that didn't look nearly big enough, but I don't think it was going far.
I love the institution green paint. So common in past times. Supposed to be soothing.
Grew up with the Nickel Plate running through our back yards in Rocky River, Ohio.
Thanks for bringing us along!
Well done!
Nice that 770 found a home. I have a video on my channel of when it was on a siding in Lincoln, Indiana.
You're right!
That was an awesome operation 👍
DGS, what an awesome video, as always. My wife and I always wondered how this was done. Very well done.
Great video!! I'm glad that you filmed it. Thanks 👍
Very interesting. Cool how everything went together. Thanks again for another awesome video my friend.
That was amazing! Thank you.
Just awesome! Wish I could tour a caboose. Love them.😊
Totally freaking awesome, learned a lot with your video sir. Really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you very much
Excellent video Brandon :) thank you shown this Caboose car on move and my Uncle Brian use do this for job long time also foreman for crossing in Canada and USA for CP also CN companies for nearly 50 years and retirement in 2015 ! He love all years been in from Steam to Coal to Desiel fuel trains drove plus Conductor of Canada Via Train went British Columbia to Newfoundland Canada to 1968 to 1980 years he tell lots funny stories and what saw on train travels plus more ! He never like accidents happen over years and repairs do ! But told me for joke one time never get fight with me and may whap one never know what because strength he has ! He only 5 foot 10 tall but lots strength behind him and did want work with him years but postion in trains learn on but got filled up in people hired before I could and wish I had have Mechanical Engineering higher education ticket degree to then would hire me on ! Thank You to Brandon :) love it to watch also ! Are going hook hydro to this car so be use to Brandon :) !
Great video Great job the company I worked for we moved a caboose but we used a 200 ton crane very impressive
Thank you so much for this video because as a train enthusiast I have often wondered how railcars are delivered and placed on private property and museums. I only wish my uncle was still alive to see this. Thank you again, curiosity is satisfied!❤
Your welcome!!
Very very interesting thank you for sharing this video
Beautiful move!!!!!!
Man Brandon, that was way cool. Nice job guy's
Very neat video
Tour inside it please! 🚞
Appreciate you sharing this video and information it certainly was a pleasure to watch and learn.
I’m a75 year young Retired Air Force veteran and long time model train hobbyist starting in 1950s with O gauge then British OO scale in 1970s; then German & American HO evolving to Japanese & American N scale finally to Z scale last year. I have also been a volunteer with Tennessee Central RR.
Awesome video
Very cool. Never know coming next love it.
My father always wanted a caboose. I will try to get one someday for the lake . Thank you for posting I was wondering what I would take to do this.
Hey Brandon thank you so much for sharing that it was awesome to see 👍🇺🇸
Thanks for the awesome video!!!
Great Video !
Awesome video! I always wondered where the railroads have these setting?, Got to be places packed with these or if they scraped most of them! 👍😎
Great video love your channel
A great o piece of railroad history👍
That was AWESOME!!! What an undertaking. I’m so glad they asked you to come out for final part of the project!! Did they say how much it weighs? Thanks for another great video.
Now that it is placed in its forever home, it needs a good restoration to make it a pristine example of a Nickel Plate "High Speed Service" caboose.
Love it! I wondered where 770 ended up!
What line was this from? Never seen that nickel rate before.
@@davidmorgan8837 Nickle plate road was absorbed by the Norfolk and Western. Norfolk Southern owns N&W lines now. Indiana transportation museum had this caboose until they had to shut down.
Facinating...
I watched these NKP cabooses and the Berkshires at the head end every day until junior high school. Good to see it saved.
Do they have any plans, on what it'll be used it for? 👍👍
You guys sure get into more interesting stuff than we do up here.
Very Cool . Wish it was mine !!!
awesome video
Former ITM ? Glad they found a home
Yes former ITM Caboose, Central Indiana will be delivered to Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in the next few weeks
@@joe_of_all_trades did the brake wheel work on the caboose work because I think that would work instead of securing it
Had a similar caboose halfmile from the house up here in angola ny
That’s just what I need to set up my Lionel trains it’s perfect. Good job
I hated changing brake shoes on those type of beams. They're called hanging brake beams and they were always greasey
Jeez! What an expensive PITA, but God bless ya'll !!!
These guys are good!👍
That would make a nice home office.
@@ChiefStones Or a home yes!
Did you lay a penny or nickel or quarter on the track
How much did something like that cost for the guy to do it roughly can you tell me
Thanks to show us. Smart move. No cranes just 2 jacks and dollies. Any idea of distance they did ?
Awesome video. How does it look today (did they restore it?)?
The last time I was over that way a few months ago they still haven't restored the outside but I'm not sure about the inside
It would’ve made sense to cosmetically restore the caboose’s exterior PRIOR to placing it on display in the field.
Great job transporting/mounting for display! 🚂🇺🇸
Well from what I understand it had to be moved from where it was ASAP and the customer wanted it the way it was so he could do the restore.....i was just the dirt guy that made the spot of it restoring and placeing rail cars is above my pay grade lol ....Thank you for watching
@@dirtgrainsteel at 20:29 you said that you did not want the caboose to roll did the brake. Wheel work you should of used that for that
Me and my father did the same thing his was a cr 24515 not a high top built the track panel used a beaver tail trailer to haul the trucks. Then a drop deck to haul the caboose the two truck cranes to do the lift!
Now I know how people get a Kaboose or Boxcar put on their property.
very well done .. interesting
Gravity does it on freight equipment and cabooses. Older passenger cars used a centerpin that was in 3 pieces. It actually locked the carbody and truck together.
Nice, a real nail bitter and two close calls. Bobcat nearly takes off front of pickup.Secondly the operator with push boom seems to nearly hit the coupler with poor front visibility.
NKP all the way. Thank you.
How much did this all cost to do this to put on this property? You mind I ask I have seen people where they buy the stuff and making it into a house or a playhouse for kids this is really cool video I like this
I'm from Minnesota I don't think I ever saw one in Minnesota. I only know the name as a fallen flag
It's CLEAN NO BAD ON THE PIECE
Where did the nickel plate road caboose come from?
Wasn't this caboose from the Cincinnati Railroad Club and used on some Huntington trips?
Maybe but I have no idea it's history
Skipped every other tie. Blasphemy! LOL
How much are those bottle jacks rated for the are using to lift up the caboose to slide the carriage under? They look pretty heavy duty like 80 ton or more each
I'm not 100% sure but they are probably over 80ton capacity I know the move some pretty good size stuff with them knowing these guys they are probably 100ton
I was thinking that a welded trig would have to come into play.
Was that the Caboose that was only 1000 w in monon
This was a former ITM caboose what was in Noblesville, IN
Where is it located? Wife and I watched video and would like to know.
That truck driver pulling the caboose, is the MAN! That guy knows how to drive!
He was scaring me by going so fast on that rough field. I suppose there was a good reason for it.
How much should you pay for the caboose if you don't mind my asking?? I'm a train nut too
I believe this one was around $25,000 that included moving it and paying me to make a rail bed of stone for it
So, what is going on with 770? Restored? Just sitting?
I haven't been passed it in awhile to see what they have done with it to tell you the truth I'll have to make a trip over that way
They obviously know what they are doing.
Anyone you can recommend in the Houston TX area for one of these. Need it placed in Dallas
Cool
How much did just the cab of the caboose weigh?
What was the price on this beauty ?
$25k delivered and set up I believe
Railroad passenger cars have a locking bolster pin. I know this to be a fact. We jacked up a passenger car and the truck stayed attached to the car, while we changed out a wheel set.
I bet that has been with a lot of steamers back In its day
How much would the caboose and rails set a man back?
I had heard this one was just under $30,000
@@dirtgrainsteel
I wonder what you could get two early 1900s rails for?
I have two Sherman's hair pins which are old rails that were bent during the Civil War that were dug up in my yard along with a rail bending hook that was invented during the Civil War for ripping up rails.
They have a picture of the hook on line that looks just like mine.
I can pick up a 14 ft section of the old Iron rail by myself it is so light.
They didn't even bolt them together back then.
Sherman camped right here all around my property which had the old depot on it.
I've got copies of his communications that say he camped here close by and he said they were tearing up rails and bending them and there is still an old rifle pit close by.
I was curious about the price on some of the old small rails though.
Thanks for the video and your reply.
Good to see those old cabooses.
I have this caboose, in HO scale!
That's cool!
What's the name of the company who did the move?
Schlatter's Inc. out of Francesville, IN.
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Why did it have to get welded to the rail? Why not apply the handbrakes instead?
There can be no chance of it rolling at all
I think they just weld a wedge on the rail next to the wheel…
@@ohgary I’d rather that, instead of welding to wheel directly
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what is a caboose ?
Why do they call it English lake?
Years and years ago there was actually a lake there and the old timers drained it and started farming it wasn't very deep apparently because it's all gone
Cost of caboose, cost of moving it. Years ago, cabooses were very cheap, moving, not so cheap..