Pat Kn posted:MELGAR posted:by March 1948, due to higher than anticipated production costs, the New Haven agreed to an increased price of $7,775 for five express cabooses and $7,250 for the remaining standard cabooses,
Stupid question: What is an "express caboose"?
In the New Haven's terminology, an "express caboose" was one equipped with steam and air signal lines so that it could be operated in a passenger train. In the steam era, passenger cars had steam lines which received steam from the engine to heat the cars. Some passenger trains had a caboose in the consist and thus had to have steam lines. In the New Haven's case, this applied to cabooses operated to Montreal with Canadian passenger cars. Five of the seventy-five NE-6 cabooses were equipped as such.
MELGAR
