@Keith L posted:I also have the Santa Fe RailSounds version. Very clever technology...very cool. I suspect that Neil Young played a role in it. (Given the state of electronics in the 1990s, the caboose is packed with boards and weighs a ton!)
@JC642 posted:For what its worth and not that it matters today but it was said the SF and Penn RS caboose were the very last items produced at the old Chesterfield factory in May 2001 before it closed.
That's interesting about the Santa Fe and Pennsy versions being the last made in the Chesterfield factory. Those were indeed the first of these RailSounds cabooses produced, and it was awhile before any more of them were cataloged.
It is indeed cool technology and operation with these cabooses. I have the SF and Pennsy, and what these cabooses do is unique. Given their capabilities, and entertainment value, it has been curious to me for a long time that there hasn't been more discussion about these over the years. They've sort've been stealth cabooses. It may be that there just weren't that many of them made. They were fairly expensive (and no wonder, with all the electronics), which may have been part of it.
