Moving A Railroad Caboose!! Awesome Experience!!

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2 жыл бұрын

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The word caboose was originally a nautical term meaning “a house on deck where the cooking is done.” As applied to trains, however, it meant the very last car. The train crew often used the roof of the caboose as an observation platform for detecting smoking brakes and other problems. The train caboose was also used variously as a bunkhouse, office, or kitchen. Advances in technology - such as detectors that scan the train’s wheels, take temperature readings, and relay that information to a central location - have rendered the caboose unnecessary.

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@josephschuster1494 3 ай бұрын

It would’ve made sense to cosmetically restore the caboose’s exterior PRIOR to placing it on display in the field. Great job transporting/mounting for display! 🚂🇺🇸

@dirtgrainsteel 3 ай бұрын

Well from what I understand it had to be moved from where it was ASAP and the customer wanted it the way it was so he could do the restore.....i was just the dirt guy that made the spot of it restoring and placeing rail cars is above my pay grade lol ....Thank you for watching

@richardwolfgang6712 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I am a member of the Fort Wayne Railroad Society and we have a steel bay window NPR caboose, a wooden NPR caboose, and wooden Wabash caboose at our shop in New Heaven, Indiana. I helped to restore the Wabash caboose. We finished that last year.

@kendavenport1823 2 жыл бұрын

The Schlatter Boys have moved several pieces of railroad rolling stock for me from a Monon boxcar and a Monon transfer caboose and even the Monon Railroad's first diesel locomotive the DS-50 and they are highly skilled and professional in everything that they do... I wouldn't use anybody else but them for any future move that I need done.

@rick9031 2 жыл бұрын

NKP caboose 770 from the Indiana transportation museum closed in Noblesville Indiana after the city screwed them over. Almost certain I rode in that cupola once or twice.

@TMC0610 Жыл бұрын

The museum screwed themselves over with their terrible management and refusal to do anything the city asked them. Then proceeded to throw a huge stink acting like the victim when unsurprisingly the city got tired of the insubordination. Completely avoidable situation that they brought upon themselves.

@michaelcase8574 4 ай бұрын

I love the institution green paint. So common in past times. Supposed to be soothing.

@ralphgreenwood5857 6 ай бұрын

Nice that 770 found a home. I have a video on my channel of when it was on a siding in Lincoln, Indiana.

@scrotiemcboogerballs1981 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome glad it’s being saved and not torn apart thanks for sharing buddy I remember when I was a kid in the 80s the trains coming through town had a caboose

@thomasmathewson6229 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing preservation of history.

@jerrystott7780 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have watched this in 92, I had to move one out from fairbanks to birch lake and get it to a property on the lake. Wound up being a 2 day job without having anything but a dozer and a lowboy. (We didn't set it on trucks, just bedded it in sand and dirt with blocking. ) have a great day.

@thadsmith2889 Жыл бұрын

The old Nickel Plate, I grew up by the now abandoned line by Fish Lake, good memories.

@alanflor703 Жыл бұрын

I watched a caboose move in Canon City, CO about a dozen years ago. A crane picked up the whole thing, display track and all, in one go. They put it on a tandem axle equipment trailer that didn't look nearly big enough, but I don't think it was going far.

@jamesbergfeld5923 2 жыл бұрын

My father and grandfather both worked the the old nickel plate railroad. Grandfather was kill in the switch yard in Delphos Ohio before I was born.

@mikec6831 2 жыл бұрын

That was amazing! Thank you.

@rzmiscera 6 ай бұрын

Nice, a real nail bitter and two close calls. Bobcat nearly takes off front of pickup.Secondly the operator with push boom seems to nearly hit the coupler with poor front visibility.

@johncaffrey5395 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful move!!!!!!

@fastmail55 10 ай бұрын

Wow! A Nickel Plate caboose! Nicely done!

@AndrewHCann 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video Brandon :) thank you shown this Caboose car on move and my Uncle Brian use do this for job long time also foreman for crossing in Canada and USA for CP also CN companies for nearly 50 years and retirement in 2015 ! He love all years been in from Steam to Coal to Desiel fuel trains drove plus Conductor of Canada Via Train went British Columbia to Newfoundland Canada to 1968 to 1980 years he tell lots funny stories and what saw on train travels plus more ! He never like accidents happen over years and repairs do ! But told me for joke one time never get fight with me and may whap one never know what because strength he has ! He only 5 foot 10 tall but lots strength behind him and did want work with him years but postion in trains learn on but got filled up in people hired before I could and wish I had have Mechanical Engineering higher education ticket degree to then would hire me on ! Thank You to Brandon :) love it to watch also ! Are going hook hydro to this car so be use to Brandon :) !

@nealbee59 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing us along!

@johnnyholland8765 2 жыл бұрын

Facinating...

@davidkimmel4216 2 жыл бұрын

Very very interesting thank you for sharing this video

@earlalford7694 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Great job the company I worked for we moved a caboose but we used a 200 ton crane very impressive

@kristoffermangila 4 ай бұрын

Now that it is placed in its forever home, it needs a good restoration to make it a pristine example of a Nickel Plate "High Speed Service" caboose.

@josephfraley4215 2 жыл бұрын

DGS, what an awesome video, as always. My wife and I always wondered how this was done. Very well done.

@randybedker1584 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool. Never know coming next love it.

@KevinRichards-rk3gp 9 ай бұрын

A great o piece of railroad history👍

@matthewdavis4081 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@chadshidler8903 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Cool how everything went together. Thanks again for another awesome video my friend.

@tsparky236 2 жыл бұрын

Totally freaking awesome, learned a lot with your video sir. Really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you very much

@richardwilkens4577 2 жыл бұрын

Very neat video

@danielfantino1714 7 ай бұрын

Thanks to show us. Smart move. No cranes just 2 jacks and dollies. Any idea of distance they did ?

@jolujo5842 Жыл бұрын

You're right! That was an awesome operation 👍

@davejustice7464 9 ай бұрын

I hated changing brake shoes on those type of beams. They're called hanging brake beams and they were always greasey

@davidnance7761 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the awesome video!!!

@dandubose878 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!! I'm glad that you filmed it. Thanks 👍

@allenlong3939 2 жыл бұрын

My father always wanted a caboose. I will try to get one someday for the lake . Thank you for posting I was wondering what I would take to do this.

@peteschiavoni 2 жыл бұрын

That was AWESOME!!! What an undertaking. I’m so glad they asked you to come out for final part of the project!! Did they say how much it weighs? Thanks for another great video.

@brittblanton8342 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Brandon thank you so much for sharing that it was awesome to see 👍🇺🇸

@nickpersenaire4443 2 жыл бұрын

Man Brandon, that was way cool. Nice job guy's

@ces188charles6 2 жыл бұрын

They obviously know what they are doing.

@orinbeavers5941 2 жыл бұрын

Great video love your channel

@garysumma5527 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! I always wondered where the railroads have these setting?, Got to be places packed with these or if they scraped most of them! 👍😎

@hughmackellar7941 2 жыл бұрын

You guys sure get into more interesting stuff than we do up here.

@mattlappin4284 2 жыл бұрын

Former ITM ? Glad they found a home

@joe_of_all_trades 2 жыл бұрын

Yes former ITM Caboose, Central Indiana will be delivered to Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in the next few weeks

@miniaturefarmer464 2 жыл бұрын

Love it! I wondered where 770 ended up!

@davidmorgan8837 2 жыл бұрын

What line was this from? Never seen that nickel rate before.

@miniaturefarmer464 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidmorgan8837 Nickle plate road was absorbed by the Norfolk and Western. Norfolk Southern owns N&W lines now. Indiana transportation museum had this caboose until they had to shut down.

@rgendrud8695 2 жыл бұрын

awesome video

@andrewjohn9813 2 жыл бұрын

Had a similar caboose halfmile from the house up here in angola ny

@yenerm114 2 жыл бұрын

🤘🤘🤘🤘

@cliffarnoldussen4781 2 жыл бұрын

How much did something like that cost for the guy to do it roughly can you tell me

@michaelisrude 2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@user-kx7tj8of7e 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video. How does it look today (did they restore it?)?

@dirtgrainsteel 6 ай бұрын

The last time I was over that way a few months ago they still haven't restored the outside but I'm not sure about the inside

@bigtrev8xl 2 жыл бұрын

Do they have any plans, on what it'll be used it for? 👍👍

@mikeyhowell5449 7 ай бұрын

Where did the nickel plate road caboose come from?

@ItchingToScratch 7 ай бұрын

Why did it have to get welded to the rail? Why not apply the handbrakes instead?

@shawnfox8002 2 жыл бұрын

Did you lay a penny or nickel or quarter on the track

@currentfaves65 Жыл бұрын

3:38 Wish you didn't edit the hard part of the removal

@Emmo213 2 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the company who did the move?

@lsfd208 2 жыл бұрын

Was that the Caboose that was only 1000 w in monon

@joe_of_all_trades 2 жыл бұрын

This was a former ITM caboose what was in Noblesville, IN

@frederickbays405 2 жыл бұрын

i have seen this done many times as i live near Hornell NY where there is a company that restores RR cars. In fact they have almost finished a new bui9lding in which they will be assembling new cars for the new high speed trans. At one time all they did for restore old subway cars. Sandblast them repaint and rewire. And ppl say we arent building new factories. This is a family own company.

@CarlosDeAlba-ot1ms Жыл бұрын

Anyone you can recommend in the Houston TX area for one of these. Need it placed in Dallas

@birdman1852 Жыл бұрын

Why do they call it English lake?

@dirtgrainsteel Жыл бұрын

Years and years ago there was actually a lake there and the old timers drained it and started farming it wasn't very deep apparently because it's all gone

@Sj27m Жыл бұрын

How much would the caboose and rails set a man back?

@dirtgrainsteel Жыл бұрын

I had heard this one was just under $30,000

@Sj27m Жыл бұрын

@@dirtgrainsteel I wonder what you could get two early 1900s rails for? I have two Sherman's hair pins which are old rails that were bent during the Civil War that were dug up in my yard along with a rail bending hook that was invented during the Civil War for ripping up rails. They have a picture of the hook on line that looks just like mine. I can pick up a 14 ft section of the old Iron rail by myself it is so light. They didn't even bolt them together back then. Sherman camped right here all around my property which had the old depot on it. I've got copies of his communications that say he camped here close by and he said they were tearing up rails and bending them and there is still an old rifle pit close by. I was curious about the price on some of the old small rails though. Thanks for the video and your reply. Good to see those old cabooses.