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| Getting ready to be loaded onto the truck. |
The year 1979 provided the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad with the opportunity to acquire two Pittsburgh Shawmut and Northern cabooses. The cabooses were built by the Russel Snowplow Company located in Ridgway, Pennsylvania . One of the cabooses went to the B&W while the other one went to the Teaberry & Southern Railroad. (The Teaberry and Southern Railroad is another two foot gauge railroad on the other side of town in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.) The caboose was transported to the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad by a flat bed truck. The B&W crew then spent countless hours working to restore to the caboose to how it would have looked like when it was in active service on the Pittsburgh Shawmut and Northern Railroad.
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| Making it's way to the B&W |
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| Being placed at it's new permanent home. |
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| Before the new paint job in 2007 |
The repairs held nicely but the paint began to appear really faded in 2007. Around this time, a crew member was working on her Gold Award for Girl Scouts and decided to take on the task of repainting the caboose. After scraping all the old paint off, a new coat was applied and the letters and numbers on the caboose were adjusted to be more historically accurate. In order to preserve the caboose better for many years to come, a roof was built over top of the caboose for some protection from the weather.
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| All the old paint scraped off. |
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| Brand new coat of paint. |
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| The end result. |
First three pictures provided by William Bauer, last four pictures taken by Fred Bauer
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