Union Pacific Wooden Cabooses
By Don Strack
UP Wooden Caboose Research Questions
UP Wooden Caboose Number Series
The Historical Era
- The Railroad Caboose
- Early Union Pacific's Wooden Cabooses
- 1885 Renumbering Plan
- Non Common Standard (N.C.S.) Designs
Early Subsidiary Cabooses
- Oregon Short Line (OSL)
- Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf (UPD&G)
- Oregon Railway & Navigation (OR&N)
- Los Angeles & Salt Lake (LA&SL)
Standard CA and CA-1 Wooden Cabooses
Wooden Caboose Features
Wooden Caboose Modernization Programs
Wooden Cabooses in 1942 (when the first steel cabooses arrived)
Other Roads' Wooden Cabooses
Wooden Caboose Renumbering to 25000-series
Specialty Cabooses
- Wooden Box Car Cabooses
- Wooden Temporary Cabooses (including full roster listing)
- Drover Cabooses
- UP 2022-2088(converted coaches, no roster data available)
- OSL 2700-2708
- LA&SL 3484-3492
- LA&SL 3493-3499
- Transfer Cabooses
