Virginian railway caboose

A photo dated May 13, 1913 in H Reid's "The Virginian Railway" shows a cab "in the style of" a "Northeastern" caboose. I'm sure that you can do a Google search to find photos. They won't let us post them here.

Wooden Class C-1 VGN caboose, for sure.  #64 is preserved at Lynchburg VA's Riverside Park.  I've seen pictures with a couple of these cabooses trailing two Class AEs (2-10-10-2s) that were pushing monster coal trains up over Clark's Gap, which ran in the same era of the triplex, pre-electrification.  The C-1s (along with their steel counterparts from the late 1940s the C-10s) were used all the way until the N & W merger and even beyond IIRC.

Check with Brother Love -- he made me a beautiful pair of C-1s several years back.

Hi,

Thank you for the quick responses that have  led me to a picture of a C-1 caboose.                                I shall look into finding one and try and contact brother love.

Regards Geoff D

Virginian Caboose

Other pictures of different road numbers all appear to be a similar caboose.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Virginian Caboose

Other pictures of different road numbers all appear to be a similar caboose.

#342 is a steel VGN Class C-10.  The triplex had been cut in half for decades by then and resurrected as two separate VGN engines.  Wooden C-1 is period-accurate for the VGN triplex.

Hi BlueFeather,

Thank you for the conformation regarding the C-1 wooden caboose as period correct.

This is as I suspected, rather than the similar far later steel types.

Regards

Geoff D

Here's a picture of my Virginian C1 caboose made by Brother Love. Excellent model. Brass model level of detail.

Ken

Hi Ken,

Thank you for the photo of your C-1 Caboose. Exactly what I want.

Regards

Geoff D