Caboose
This ATSF No. 1323 caboose was the living quarters for a freight train crew while the train was in service. Inside are bunks for sleeping, lockers, an ice box, a pot-bellied coal stove, fuel and sanitary facilities. In the center of the car is the conductor's desk where the trainmen could take care of their administrative work. This type of rail car is typical of the early cabooses used throughout the country in the early 1900s.
HISTORY:
This wooden Santa Fe Rail Road caboose was built in Chicago in 1923. This car was used in California and the southwestern United States. The Santa Fe Rail Road restored this wooden caboose in a local Santa Fe Rail Road shop in 1956 prior to donation to the museum. The caboose was brought to California from Clovis, New Mexico by the Santa Fe Rail Road. This car weighs 50,000 pounds.
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