ROCO Radio Interchange Caboose ~ UNION PACIFIC / BURLINTON ~ Aluminum # 623- HO

Description: ICaboose Color SchemesWith the end of WWII US Government restrictions were removed and a peacetime economy was brewing, 1947 was a year of major change for the Union Pacific. More diesels and passenger cars were delivered to enable the "City" Streamliners to run on a daily schedule and UP wanted to promote these trains by using Armour Yellow wherever it could. Almost all freight car lettering was changed from white to Armour Yellow. The new Livestock Dispatch stock trains had their roller bearing equipped stock cars painted Armour Yellow and the road's mundane black diesel yard switchers also received the new yellow color. The change to yellow included cabooses too.In June 1947, instructions were issued to change UP's cabooses from freight car red bodies with white letters, to yellow bodies with red letters. The roofs remained freight car red, and the underframe and trucks became black. The repainting of the remaining wooden cabooses (including the transfer cabooses) and the CA-3 and CA-4 classes of steel cabooses began soon thereafter. The two classes of new steel cabooses were just five years old, for the CA-3s, and, three years old, for the CA-4s.Wooden CaboosesOn the wooden cabooses, the roofing material was left unpainted. Although the CS-22 paint standard, updated to July 16, 1929, does not mention the color of mulehide roofing, it does say that all caboose roofs are to be painted Metallic No. 11. It is not known if this is the same as Synthetic Red, or if No. 11 was later changed to No. 33, Freight Car Red.Mulehide is canvas that is laid over the wooden roof, with hot asphalt brushed on to seal it. Usually, two or three coats of canvas and asphalt was used. This treatment was very waterproof, and very durable, thus the "mulehide" name. But, it also weathered rapidly and needed regular maintenance, which explains why metal roofs were used on freight cars. The color of mulehide would vary from new asphalt black, to highly weathered, old asphalt gray. It was never to be painted. At times, and depending on when it was last treated, the fabric pattern of the canvas is visible.The Painting, Lettering & Numbering drawing for CA-3 and CA-4 cabooses (303-C-8037) was changed to the new color scheme on June 13, 1947. For unknown reasons, the drawing for the CA and CA-1 classes (303-C-7412) was not changed until January 29, 1948. It took at least three years to repaint the caboose fleet. A newspaper article in the Greeley (Colorado) Tribune of November 28, 1947 mentioned the new yellow color, and that several cabooses in the new color scheme had been seen in the Denver yards alongside several new high-speed stockcars, also in the new scheme.A steel CA-3, UP 3763, was the first caboose repainted from red to yellow at East Los Angeles, California. It was completed in early July 1947. An aerial photo of the Repair-In-Place (RIP) track at Ogden, Utah, in February 1950 shows nine cabooses just recently painted yellow, and two others partially completed.The interior colors of Light Green above Dark Green did not change with the conversion to a yellow exterior. In October 1959 the surface finish changed from flat to semi-gloss, and in March 1963 the semi-gloss was changed to full gloss.Aluminum-colored Caboose Scheme - Cupola OnlySometime in late 1958 or early 1959, the cupola of UP 25407 was painted with aluminum paint and a large letter M was added to indicate that the caboose was equipped with a multi-channel radio for use on UP lines and on CB&Q lines. Painting additional cabooses followed but using aluminum-colored paint only on the cupolas did not provide the clear indication needed for the dedicated pool of cabooses. So, to make the specially equipped cabooses more apparent on the caboose track, the entire caboose was later painted the aluminum color.Aluminum-colored Caboose Scheme - Entire CabooseInstructions were issued in a letter from D. S. Neuhart, dated November 22, 1960, to paint two UP cabooses with aluminum paint. UP 25402 and 25441 were to be "used in through service with the Burlington between Chicago and Green River." "The sides, ends, and cupola were to painted aluminum. The underframe and all underneath attachments were to be "painted with approved black freight car paint. The words Union Pacific, and initials UP, car numbers, and balance of exterior stenciling to be approved red stencil paint."Union Pacific painted at least 10 steel cabooses for service on trains operating in a common pool between UP and CB&Q. The bodies of these cabooses were painted aluminum, along with the grab irons, ladders, and other safety appliances, while the car roof and the cupola roof were painted freight car red, with the platforms and underbody being black. The lettering was red. While most of the aluminum-colored UP cabooses had black handrails and grab irons, like their CB&Q counterparts, at least one had red handrails, and grab irons.Other sources show that these aluminum-colored cabooses were used in a UP/CB&Q pool train, known as the, CDGI, which operated over the Burlington between Chicago and Grand Island, Nebraska, where the train was interchanged with Union Pacific for further movement to Green River. This train also shared a pool of each road's new GP20 locomotives, with UP GP20s showing up in Chicago, and CB&Q GP20s making it as far west as Green River, Wyoming.All of the aluminum-painted cabooses were the newest cabooses on UP, the CA-7s delivered in 1959, along with several CA-5s. The known road numbers of the cars included: UP 25218, 25221, 25228, 25402, 25407, 25412, 25418, and 25441 (8 cabooses). UP 25402 remained in the aluminum paint scheme until at least 1968. UP 25402 and 25441 were both equipped with the four-foot by six-foot safety slogan panel. - UTAHRAILS Green River, Wyoming - The Union Pacific Railroad is both the framework and inspiration for the city of Green River. Bisected by the UP main line, Green River grew up around the rails. The chuffing of steam locomotives and the horns of diesels have echoed from the bluffs above the town since the railroad arrived in 1868.People came to Green River from all over the world to work on and around the Great Iron Way. Lives lived on the line range from a 14-year-old boy who swept floors at the depot, retiring more than forty years later as stationmaster, to a machinist who spent his entire working life in the same Green River shops after coming home from World War II.The railroad brought the outside world into Green River. Hollywood stars were spotted in the depot, generating nearly - but not quite - the excitement of a water stop for the elephants of the Barnum and Bailey Circus train. Artist Thomas Moran painted numerous versions of his “first sketch of the west” showing the escarpments of Tollgate Rock and the Palisades, drawn after stepping off the train in 1870. Explorer John Wesley Powell dropped his three small boats from rail cars directly into the Green River in 1869 to begin his intrepid trip into the last unexplored waterway of the American West.The rumble and clack of steel wheels on rails and the resonant tones of the horns are the song of Green River - the constant melody of life in a transcontinental railroad town. Maybe you should get the loved-one in your life a gift of jewelry while you get your Railroad item. Use combined shipping and get them shipped for one price. To see all our listing, visit: Ika's Trains and Collectables Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. 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