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Union Pacific Caboose #25198 at National Train Day 2010

I originally posted this on my old website on the PORTLAND PLACES: Portland Union Station page on May 16, 2010.

Continued from PNWC #600 Mount Hood…

IMG_2786 Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
UP #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

Union Pacific Class CA-4 caboose #25198 was built in November 1944 by the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company in Michigan City, Indiana as #3898. It was renumbered in April 1959. It spent much of its career in local service out of Union Pacific's Albina Yard in Portland.

IMG_2858 Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
UP #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

It was retired on June 11, 1985 and donated to the City of Montpelier, Idaho in March 1986, where it was stored until returning to Albina in 1991.

IMG_2872 Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
UP #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

It was donated to the Pacific Railroad Preservation Association and stored on the Mount Hood Railroad in Hood River, Oregon and in Pasco, Washington. It is now owned by PRPA founder Chris McLarney who repainted it in 2009.

IMG_2873 Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
UP #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

The interior is also in almost entirely original condition, as seen in the photos below.

IMG_2811 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2814 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2812 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2810 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2809 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2807 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

IMG_2813 Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
Interior of Union Pacific CA-4 Caboose #25198

Also inside the caboose are historical photographs and HO-scale models that depict the caboose's changing appearance over the years.

IMG_2787 Oregon Pacific SW1200RSu #1202 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
OPR #1202 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

The caboose is normally stored in Milwaukie, Oregon on the Oregon Pacific Railroad, and was accompanied to Union Station by Oregon Pacific #1202 Walter B. Beebe, which was built in 1953 as Canadian Pacific SW9 #7403 and rebuilt in 1982 as SW1200RSu #1202. The Oregon Pacific acquired it in 2006.

IMG_2859 Oregon Pacific SW1200RSu #1202 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010
OPR #1202 at Union Station in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2010

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