After several nervous days of us waiting for a response, the
Golden Gate Railroad Museum just
accepted our bid to buy
GGRM WP 668 (Golden Gate Railroad Museum, Western Pacific – Feather
River Railroad, Caboose number 668). This is a historic piece of train
equipment, already listed on
The Western Pacific Caboose List. It was built in 1916 as a boxcar
and converted into a bay window caboose in the 1930s. It is a wooden shell
just a few bits of the original furnishings like a built-in wooden bunk bed.
It looks very much like the caboose in these photos.
We are now arranging with the crane and trucking company to get it from
the GGRM in San Francisco to San Jose where we live. We will start working
on the move as soon as we get back from our work trip to Russia and Israel.
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