TEDD LiGGETT’s phOTOGRAPH_oF_tHE_dAY #1061 \ cABOOSE

tL's phOTOGRAPH_oF_tHE_dAY #1061 - on display in front of the Morton County Historical Museum in Elkhart, Kansas is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Caboose #999481. One of 225 built, this Cupola style was manufactured in 1942 and rebuilt in 1970. It provided the train crew with shelter, a conductor’s seat and desk, a coal fired heat stove, a 12 volt DC refrig, a microphor chemical toilet, three pairs of facing bench seats that could be converted into bunks and two cupola seats. These cars presented some operational issues because they had to be turned to face the proper direction. Tradition on many lines held that cabooses be painted a bright red. Seen one lately?