Our caboose moves tomorrow starting at 7 a.m. John was up at Hunter’s Point
getting everything ready on Saturday. The Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California finally moved their train of
historic rolling stock out of the Golden Gate
Railroad Museum the same day. They had asked for some bits off of our
caboose that we didn’t care about (they can use replacement battery boxes and brake
parts for 1916 rail equipment) but in the end, they did not have time to take
everything. Here is one of the cabeese we didn’t buy being lifted onto a flatbed
railcar to go to its new home in Portola:
Luckily, the crane and rigging company we hired has the equipment to cut
off the bottom bits that would make our caboose stand too tall to get under
highway bridges. John has been learning to use an oxyacetylene torch but train steel
is too heavy for the welding unit we borrowed. John put plywood over the openings
to keep bits from rattling out when the caboose is lifted. The rain and wind
are supposed to be way down by tomorrow. We think all will be ready in the
morning for WP688 to move from San Francisco to San Jose.
Images by John Plocher (Copyright 2006)
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