A Restored Caboose

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Louis Brzuchalski	General	If this is the original number, 557707, it is the eighth caboose built at the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Toledo (Ironville) Ohio shops in 1948. It is one of 61 cabooses built there in 1948-1949, of this type. The original WLE number was 0208, renumbered NKP 708 after WLE was leased by NKP in 1949, and renumberewd NW 557707 after NKP merger with N&W in 1964. I saw and rode this caboose many times before I retired from NS clerical dept., at Toledo, from the West end of Homestead Yard, to the top (East) end at the yard office with the crews and car knockers before radios were used.	1/17/2007 6:05:46 PM

Louis Brzuchalski	General	Correction: the original W&LE number was 0207. Series started with 0200 thru 0260. I should proof read and make corrections before hitting submit button. All were built to WLE drawings SK 2828, steel rivited sides, ends, and roofing. Had Sertvel kerosene refrigerators, and coal fired stove. Trucks werwe Barber-Bettendorf type swing motion caboose trucks, and equipped with Amweld slack adjusters.	1/17/2007 6:29:32 PM

A Restored Caboose
The Caboose went through three different railroads before it ended up being painted for N&W. It now sits on the Danville Station Siding!
Date: 9/25/2006	Location: Danville, VA Map	Views: 207	Collection Of: Edward Kerns II
Rolling Stock: NW 557707 (Caboose)			Author: Edward Kerns II

Picture Categories: RollingStock		This picture is part of album: Danville, VA

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