Union Pacific Wooden Caboose Index
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This page was last updated on February 11, 2024.
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Wooden Caboose Number Series
UP Wooden Caboose Number Series -- Use this page as an index, with links to each caboose type and number series.
Wooden Caboose Rosters
Wooden Caboose Rosters -- An index page for an edited and updated version of the wooden caboose rosters from the UP caboose book; includes additional information that didn't make it into the book. (Includes wooden box car cabooses, wooden temporary cabooses, wooden drover cabooses, and wooden transfer cabooses.)
Wooden Cabooses in 1942 -- when the first steel cabooses arrived.
Wooden Cabooses in 25000-series -- The remaining 75 wooden cabooses were renumbered in 1962-1965.
Wooden Caboose Information
The Historical Era
Early Union Pacific's Wooden Cabooses
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
Comparing the two CA and CA-1 designs
Renumbering Wooden Cabooses to 25000-series
Wooden Caboose Features
Wooden Caboose Features -- A separate page with brief descriptions of the numerous features and modernization programs of UP's wooden cabooses, including the following:
- Trucks for Wooden Cabooses
- Side Door Wooden Cabooses
- Straight-Sided Cupolas
- High Cupolas
- Steel Underframe Reinforcement
- Steel Sheathing
- Plywood Sheathing
- Were there ever any CA-2 cabooses?
- Replacement Cabooses
- Power Brakes and Safety Plates
- Wooden Cabooses with Wood Beam Trucks
Other Wooden Cabooses
Caboose Questions
UP Wooden Caboose Research Questions
Abbreviations
| AC&F | American Car & Foundry Co. |
| B&S | Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
| Chicago | Chicago Falls Car Co. |
| H&B | Haskel & Barker |
| LA&SL | Los, Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad |
| Mason | Mason & Co. |
| Michigan | Michigan Car Co. |
| Mich. Pen. | Michigan Peninsular Car Co. |
| MC&F | Missouri Car & Foundry Co. |
| Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. (Mount Vernon, Illinois) |
| NCRR | North Coast Railroad |
| Ohio | Ohio Falls Car Co. |
| O&W | Oregon & Washington Railway |
| OR&N | Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. (The Dalles, Oregon.) |
| OWR&N | Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Co. (Albina, Oregon.) |
| PC&F | Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Seattle, Washington.) |
| Peninsular | Peninsular Car Co. |
| PSC | Pressed Steel Car Co. |
| Pullman | Pullman Car Co. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| St. Charles | St. Charles Car Co. |
| Standard | Standard Steel Car Co. |
| UPRR | Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops (Omaha, Nebraska.) |
| U.S.R.S. | United States Rolling Stock Co. |
| Utah, Central | Utah Central Railway (OSL subsidiary) |
| Western | Western Steel Car & Foundry Co. |
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