Alaska Railroad Cabooses for sale!

[jackal]

If you need a gift for the train buff who has everything, the Alaska Railroad might have the perfect answer -- a well-worn caboose, waiting in the Anchorage rail yard for a new home. The railroad has four old cabooses up for bid. And for as low as $8,000, one could be yours.

Mention in the Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/3437/story/855114.html

Full story in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jul/06/alas...oose-cars-sale/

I'd bid, but I'm not sure where I'd put it! (And I do have other things with that $8k that I should be doing...)

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Too expensive. You could get an old Pullman Gallery car, Ex-Metra, for about the same price.

 

[MikeM]

Too expensive. You could get an old Pullman Gallery car, Ex-Metra, for about the same price.

That's not including the divorce expenses and alimony I'd pay if I tried to park a caboose in our back yard. :blink: Yikes! But I've always been a fan of the Canadian cabooses with the larger side windows and such, they seem far more homey than the standard US caboose with plated over windows. Still, if I could, I'd kill to have an old UP caboose, preferably one of the classic center cupola models like a CA-9, with the safety slogan painted on the side. That's what I remember growing up alongside the UP mainline in Wyoming.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

I'm lucky. My better half is in line with my "built our home out of an old Budd car" plans.

 

[jay]

Too expensive. You could get an old Pullman Gallery car, Ex-Metra, for about the same price.

Could you tell me where you can find one of these pullmans you are talking about?

jason at aspencrossing.com

 

[amtrakwolverine]

I'd rather have a F-40PH cabbage.install giant computer screens in the windows and rig up the cab controls to run the computer train games. at the other end a home theater.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

I'd rather have a F-40PH cabbage.install giant computer screens in the windows and rig up the cab controls to run the computer train games. at the other end a home theater.

Ozark Mountain Railcar used to sell them. Still sells them. Here.