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Re: Olive Jct Great Find Hutch Yeah, I noticed that, both caboose's and no caboose's on road trains.
Author: Goatboat
Date: 12-20-2019 - 16:17
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Maybe, they didn't have a working rear end device?
> Today's devices are more reliable. There were
> early "teething" issues with keeping them working,
> often battery life, getting mangled or trashed, or
> harsh weather condition issues, and a even few
> "incidents", due to these occasional reliability
> issues, as I seem to recall.
In late June 1988 we took a trip to Northern Arizona to shoot on the transcon. At that time, many ATSF main line trains were running with cabooses. The story we heard at the time was that Chico was having some huge problems with their EOT devices, so it was the caboose's last stand.
These two shots in Kingman Canyon were one of the highlights of the trip.
The westman with the F45 was a 608 train, the eastman was a 951.
Both the 608 and 951 had a caboose on the rear.
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> Maybe, they didn't have a working rear end device?
> Today's devices are more reliable. There were
> early "teething" issues with keeping them working,
> often battery life, getting mangled or trashed, or
> harsh weather condition issues, and a even few
> "incidents", due to these occasional reliability
> issues, as I seem to recall.
In late June 1988 we took a trip to Northern Arizona to shoot on the transcon. At that time, many ATSF main line trains were running with cabooses. The story we heard at the time was that Chico was having some huge problems with their EOT devices, so it was the caboose's last stand.
These two shots in Kingman Canyon were one of the highlights of the trip.
The westman with the F45 was a 608 train, the eastman was a 951.
Both the 608 and 951 had a caboose on the rear.
