In 2015, the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds donated the caboose to the Oklahoma Railway Museum along with ATSF locomotive No. 643. Its restoration was completed in 2016. It is now permanently located at the Adventure Station decorated with ORM logos, and is visible from Remington Pl. near I-35.

The line drawings are of classes which could include this caboose. This caboose, when we got it, was stripped on the inside and clad with non-original siding. Subsequently, it has been converted to use as a birthday party caboose complete with heat and air conditioning. For more information on having a Birthday Party, click here.

The CA-6 design was very similar to earlier standard caboose designs, but included a welded instead of riveted underframe. It was renumbered as 25380 in July 1960. Union Pacific retired this caboose August 20, 1986 and sold it to the now-defunct SunBelt Railroad Museum in Sand Springs, OK. The Oklahoma Railway Museum acquired it in…

In 1968 the Santa Fe rebuilt 37 of these cabooses for local and transfer yard service only, and their cupolas were painted yellow to denote them for this type of service. As one of those rebuilt #2299 was renumbered as #999624. Being a Class Ce-3 caboose, it had a boxcar-style angled roof, rather than a…

In the early 1940s the Rock Island needed more cabooses, so they modified about 200 Class B-2 boxcars in their shops in Illinois. Twenty of these boxcars were given a passenger seating section, baggage section with sliding doors, and a crew compartment with a cupola. One of these, No. 1772, is located at the Mid-Continent…

It was re-built in 1969 or 1970 and re-numbered as #999359, which remains its current number. This caboose was donated to the ORM in 2009 by the grandchildren of Tom and Cherry Jerlo. It is in good working order and is often used on ORM passenger trains.

The caboose was retired in 1973 and sold to George Shirk, a former mayor of Oklahoma City. George Shirk donated it in 1981 to the Central Oklahoma Railfan Club, a predecessor organization to ORM. The caboose was restored in 2005. It is believed to be the oldest CB&Q way car in existence.

The interiors of these cabooses included a small table in each of the four corners, four chairs and a single crew bunk. Built under the cupola are a number of storage lockers, used to store clothes, tools, and other items as well as house the caboose’s 12-volt DC battery. Ascending the metal ladder to the…