Green Bay & Western's caboose #112 was at the end of an eastbound train passing through Merrillan in 1981.
The train has just crossed
Highway 95 and is heading for Hatfield.
When this caboose started appearing on the GB&W, I did a double take because I wasn't used to a cupola design on this line.
Phil was right -- this was the only cupola caboose used by the railroad after 1940. This caboose was originally Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf #1549, it came to the GB&W in May 1980. In later years it was often used on the Plover way freight.
Phil O'Keefe photo, June, 1981
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