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?
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@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.
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.
AN/CRM-114@flyingsaceur @ai6yr @markc568 "You're asking the sort of questions people we don't want for customers would ask..."