Here are some photos of our early projects restoring WP668, the 91-year-old
Western Pacific caboose in our backyard. The yellow car stops will keep her
from rolling. A prior owner of WP668 cut through one inside and outside wall to install
a big window. (He just made the hole – the window was never added.) John has now
filled in the exterior boards and bolted the new wood in place. He was able to insert cut-to-fit
rigid foam insulation into the irregular cavity spaces between the interior and exterior
tongue and groove walls on either side of the new wall patch. So, already both the ceiling
and 1/4 of the caboose walls have modern insulation instead of an air gap. John took a
sample of WP668’s original wood to a local lumber company and they confirmed it was first
growth fir.
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WP668 caboose car stop 1: 
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WP668 caboose car stop 2: 
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WP668 caboose inside new wall: 
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WP668 caboose new wall outside (and John): 
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WP668 caboose John and wall: 
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WP668 caboose old wall meets new wall: 
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WP668 caboose exterior wall filled: 
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