TWO PHOTOS: JACK WHEELIHAN: SUMMIT, NJ; 1959
A conductor on caboose 813 does his pa- perwork (above left). The interiors in this era were maroon. The wooden cabooses lacked electric lights and were heated by a coal stove (above right). The paint is so fresh on No. 717 (right) that the window caulking is still gray. The grab irons are imi- tation gold. This view (below right) shows the maroon color applied to some of the last of the DL&W repaints. The cement re- gion of Pennsylvania was an especially dusty environment and this scene shows the typical weathering. Note the metal splash guards that shielded trainmen on the platform from the grime kicked up by the wheels at speed and the shiny areas on the end of the carbody that were rubbed clean by the jackets of the trainmen as they brushed by on the car’s platform.
the nearby D&H where a Challenger in pusher service crushed a wood-bodied caboose, DL&W vice president of opera- tions Perry Shoemaker issued a memo on March 14, 1952, outlining conditions for pushing on cabooses. The short ver- sion: Two diesels could push on steel ca- booses unrestricted; a wood caboose had to be unoccupied with the crew riding in the helper engines, or the helper had to be cut in ahead of a wood caboose. Push- ing on any caboose with more than two locomotives (steam or diesel) was for- bidden, and pushing against multiple cabooses was forbidden.
Cabooses in color
While no written policy of early ca- boose colors has yet turned up, photo- graphs and paint on surviving cars show that the standard color appears to be the typical chrome yellow common in that era, with black lettering and her- alds on the bobbers. The eight-wheeled wooden cabooses were also yellow with
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PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN, AUTHOR’S COLLECTION PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN, AUTHOR’S COLLECTION: BANGOR, PA; MAY 1962
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