AI6YR Ben👀
Santa Fe Caboose up for sale at a local Estate Sale.
(no, I don't have a backyard big enough).
If you ever want to open up one of those kitchy Route 66 souvenir shops... Looks like this is the place to go, lol.
Hmm, there are two morse code keys in there. Among other stuff. I imagine the plae is chock full of random stuff.
Ship's wheel? Cowboy hat? Entire gas station replica buliding with gas pumps? Shelled Walnuts sign?
W6KME
@ai6yr Hah! This is the sort of thing where you can say stuff like "I bet those grenades are probably inert!" You know, like really probably, but I'm not putting any money on it
@ai6yr It's definitely removeable, but you'll have to reserve or lease the adjacent line, have it lifted, and be able to clear it from that section of line. I expect the Historical Museum in Fillmore will end up with it. Although, they do already have a Southern Pacific caboose.
@ai6yr Slightly tangential to the topic, but if you're in Ventura County and have never visited, you need to do so.
Barbara Monaco
markc568@W6KME @ai6yr Last year a historical society near me sold a bay-window caboose when they shut down.
Whoever bought it had it winched onto a semi with a beaver-tail flatbed to haul it away.
Despite there being an active industrial rail line across the street.
Guessing no railroad would haul these without a rebuild of bearings and brakes. And definitely not with plain bearings.
@markc568 @ai6yr The line shown in the background of these photos is no longer in commercial use, and is leased to a local historical society for excursions on vintage stock. So there is *some* possibility they could get permission to use the track.
But, and this can't be overstated, I'm not the expert on this stuff, I've just been adjacent to several private purchases of antique stock like this.
Wendroid 🇺🇦
Coles Street Pothole@wendinoakland @markc568 @ai6yr @W6KME This is easily the wildest thing I've learned on the internet this week.
David Sacerdote
AN/CRM-114@flyingsaceur @ai6yr @markc568 "You're asking the sort of questions people we don't want for customers would ask..."
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Scott VE3QBZ@ai6yr @scott @W6KME @markc568 Possessing a supreme excellence in the area of being an unimaginative bore
I met this guy in the business center of a hotel in Buffalo. His first question out of the gate was:
“Are you here to steal my copies from the copier like the last guy?”
It took me a hot second to realize he wasn’t joking and to assure him that would not steal his copies
His second question was, “What kind of rail car do you own?”
I had to get Iit through to him that I had no idea what the hell he was talking about, and he then proceeded to explain that there was a convention for private rail car owners and all that entailed, and somehow managed to make it sound boring
Bekah@ai6yr @W6KME that one looks in better shape, but you can see how much effort/work it takes to restore a really old one here: https://thelouisvillecaboose.com/archived-project-home-page/
The family kind of (randomly, 5 years ago?) decided to just make a two-car track and start restoring these, then ran out of money or interest so they put it all up for sale.
The city somehow decided they wanted the two rail cars and mock track and are buying that corner for $400k.
https://www.coloradohometownweekly.com/2026/02/05/louisville-council-caboose-purchase/
DouglasColorado mentioned!!
Louisville just needs to get an engine to put in front of those cars and they'll have something cool.
@douglasvb @bolderbekah @W6KME Somewhere just up from Century Lake, based on the hills, and also the people cavorting through the trees in that clip is definitely down in the flats.
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I have no idea how you do that from that clip, but looks correct.
Clip seems to be from Paris Hilton in The Simple Life, a season 5 seems to be at “Camp Shawnee” specifically S5E8. Which was made up? https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-simple-life-was-camp-shawnee-totally-fake-reports-claim-none-real.html/
I did not need to know any of this. 😆😆
Sara
me_valentijn@ai6yr
The part about swinging might give your neighbors the wrong idea 😏
The part about swinging might give your neighbors the wrong idea 😏
@me_valentijn LOL I wonder if that is an addition or if that's the original.
thefathippy[scene: Our hero rests quietly on their lounge, wondering what they'll do today. Suddenly, tyres screech to halt outside. Two doors slam, followed by a polite knock at the door. Our hero opens their door, & a hopeful looking couple greets them warmly]
"Hello, umm... we saw your sign, are very interested, & just wanted to clarify..."
@thefathippy @me_valentijn "This is different than the usual flamingos!"
Bud Talbot@ai6yr I have always wanted a caboose of my own! But sadly, I don't have any place to put one either.
Viss
J4ck@Viss @ai6yr I really don't mean to be a know-it-all and I'm sorry but I happened to look over here at this screen and... 
You can sign up for notification sites. Real Estate agencies use them for leads. Cop auctions are also amazing for the flip.
Depending on the area you are in they can provide you like... emailed lists of when/where to go.
@jackryder @Viss estatesales.net is fairly good here, Craigslist, etc. I buy from cop auctions for old rugged computers, although they are always very old, lol (a number of XP-era rugged computer which might outlast the Internet, at this rate).
@ai6yr @jackryder id be super curious to see how this sorta stuff fares in san diego county. rsf is packed with rich people so i wager the estate sales there would be wild
@Viss @jackryder Rich people's homes are BORING! All white, high end furniture... nothing interest LOL. NASA and aerospace engineer's homes, however, have all kind of cool aerospace paraphernalia.