The all-American caboose
Southern Railway 20, 21 Former Interstate 20 and 21, DL&W 614 and 670, acquired with the 1963 purchase of the Interstate Railroad.
COLLECTION OF JOHN C. LA RUE, JR.: SEPT. ISLES, QUEBEC, CANADA; JULY 14, 1954
Quebec, North Shore & Labrador 17, 18, 20 (QNS&L also purchased DL&W passenger cars)
W.C. THURMAN, COLLECTION OF JOHN C. LA RUE, JR.: ST. LOUIS, MO; NOV. 1966
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 616, 618, 619 These are not DL&W numbers, and the 617 was not a former DL&W caboose. All three had cupolas removed for switching. While the TRRA steel cabooses 598-622 began arriving in 1948, the former-DL&W cabooses in the classic gray with white striping were still on the property until 1967.
COLLECTION OF JOHN C. LA RUE, JR.: KENILWORTH, NJ; JULY 30, 1939
Rahway Valley 102 Railroad’s only caboose
T. LAWSON, COLLECTION OF JOHN C. LA RUE, JR.: BIRMINGHAM, AL; NOV. 28, 1959 COLLECTION OF R. W. BUHRMASTER: CIRCA 1940’S
Raritan River Railroad 5,6,7,8 DL&W eight-wheel wooden cabooses. The 5 and 6 were pur- chased in 1937 for $2,043.80 each. The 7 was purchased in 1951 for $2,795 as a rider car for National Lead trains (the Phoenix job). The 8 was pur- chased in 1954 for $2,052. RRRR records did not record the former DL&W numbers. The No. 7 was donated to the nearby Pine Creek tourist line where research found the DL&W number to be 604. The 5 was wrecked on the RRRR. The 6 and 8 went to Conrail in the 1982 purchase, then sold off.
Woodwarn Iron Company (WICO) 6 (WICO also purchased DL&W passenger cars)
Research began in the 1980’s from field visits and many sources, with special thanks to: John C. LaRue, Fred Diebert, Roy Pananaan, Ray Buhrmaster, Malcom McCarter, Wilbur Whittaker, Jay Williams, Sam Caliciotti, Chuck Yungkurth, Gene P. Schafer, Ed Wolfe, Perry Squire, George Berriso, Chris Hauf, Rob Piecuch, Bob Bahrs, George Eichel- berger, Russell Underwood, Larry Thomas, H. Reid, John Krause, John Lyle, Stew Miller, Louis Saillard, Bill Raia.
Four-wheel DL&W cabooses on other railroads
Morristown & Erie 1 DL&W No.4., After many years returned to the M&E, restored to M&E 1 by the owner, Whippany Railway Museum.
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern PS&N built 4-wheel cabooses to the DL&W design, but owned no former-DL&W cabooses.
Port Huron & Detroit 51 Replaced by a steel bay-window caboose of the same number
HOWARD AMELING COLLECTION: SAULT ST. MARIE, MI; JULY 16, 1964 Soo Line
597, 598, 599 These cars were acquired in the 1957 DSS&A purchase. Car No. 597 may survive in Burlington, Wisconsin.
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN 62
Raritan River Railroad 1,2,3,4 DL&W four-wheel wooden cabooses
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