White Pass & Yukon

Cabooses

Last Updated December 29, 2007


The White Pass & Yukon Route company page.


B-01 and B-02

Wood, no-cupola cabooses. Built by WP&Y.

B-01

B-01

B-02

B-02

Center car is B-02

Boxcar 520 > B-01 > B&B tool car BX1, scrapped late 50's-early 1960's.

B-02 became a wreck tool car, wrecked in 1943.

901, 902, 905, 906

8-wheel wood cabooses. Built by WP&Y.

905

905

901 built 1900, retired late 1930's.

Stock car 703 > 2nd 901 in 1901 > 905 in 1906. Retired early 1950's. It now is a shed in Skagway.

902 built 1900, retired late 1930's.

Stock car 701 > 2nd 902 in 1901 > 906 in 1906. Retired late 1930's.

903 and 904

4-wheel wood cabooses. Built by WP&Y?

903 at Robinson



903 at Robinson

903 built 1900, retired in late 1930's

904 built 1900, retired in late 1930's

One of these cabooses became a shed at Robinson, the other near milepost 5.

Question: These 2 are not similar to cabooses known to be built by WP&Y. Did they buy them from another RR, possibly Columbia & Puget Sound, along with other rolling stock and locomotives?

907

steel rotary caboose. Built by WP&Y.

907 orange

Flanger under platform

 

907 orange

907 on work train

907 on work train

907 yellow-green

907 burned

Built 1939. Destroyed in the 1969 roundhouse fire.

Passenger car caboose conversions.

Conversions started by WP&Y after the retirement of cabooses 901, 902, 903, 904, and 906 in the late 1930's.

203

205 and 207

211 with original high arched roof

211 with new lower roof

216

216 Cupola removed

Question: Are there any known dates for addition/removal of cupolas to specific cars?

WWII US Army wood cabooses.

USA 90851 to 90862 , 909, and 911

Numbers shortened in 1944 by removing the 90.

 

USA 90851

Colorado & Southern 1005

69 became USA 20

 

USA 90852

C&S 1003

Car inspector shack

C & S caboose 1005 > USA caboose 90851 > USA caboose 851 > scrapped 1945

C & S caboose 1003 > USA caboose 90852 > Wrecked 1943 > car inspector shack > burned 1958


USA 90853

 

Silverton Northern

 

Silverton Northern

D&RGW caboose 0556 > SN caboose > USA Caboose 90853 > Wrecked 1943 > car inspector shack > burned 1958


USA 90854, 90855, 90856, 90857, 90858, 90859, 90860, 90861, 90862

Converted from C&S steel underframe boxcars by Chicago Freight Car Parts Company

Numbers shortened in 1944 by removing the 90.

USA 854, 855, 856, 859, 860, and 862 Shipped to Seattle, WA in 1945, stored at Auburn, WA, scrapped.

USA caboose 90857 > USA caboose 857 > WP&Y caboose 909

USA caboose 90858 > USA caboose 858 > WP&Y caboose 858 > flat car 871 > scrapped

USA caboose 90861 > USA caboose 861 > WP&Y caboose 861 > bunk car X14 > caboose 911




Sumpter Valley 3

 




USA 911

 

After return to SV

Sumpter Valley 3 > USA caboose 911 > WP&Y caboose 911(1st) > shed in Skagway > returned to SV > restored and operational

 Sumpter Valley 4


USA 909




Sumpter Valley 4 became USA 909. It burned in 1945.

Question: Why were 909 and 911 numbered (by the US Army) in the WP&Y caboose sequence?

858, 909, 861/X-14/911(2nd)

wood cabooses, steel underframe, ex-US Army

909

909 with flanger

909 on display

in Bennett

909 on display

in Skagway

Flanger on 909

 

Bunk car X-14

 

X-14 in Whitehorse

 

911 in service

911 in 1970

911 on display

C&S boxcar > USA caboose 90857 > USA caboose 857 > WP&Y caboose 909. On Display in Skagway

C&S boxcar > USA caboose 90858 > USA caboose 858 > WP&Y caboose 858 > flat car 871 > scrapped

C&S boxcar > USA caboose 90861 > USA caboose 861 > WP&Y caboose 861 > bunk car X14 > caboose 911. Retired early 70's. On Display in Skagway for several years. Off trucks behind shop in summer 2001. Now reported in Carcross, as of Dec 27, 2002.

901(3rd)-903(2nd)-905 (2nd)

steel wide cupola cabooses built by WP&Y

901 built in 19??,

still in use.

901

903 built in 19??,

sold.

903 in Iowa

905 built in 19??,

sold.

905 as Forest Service

rental cabin near Skagway.

Photos above show the 4 different ways these cabooses were painted. 903 was sold before solid red painting was done.

911

steel wide cupola caboose

Great Northern caboose X118 > Burlington Northern caboose 10078 > WP&Y caboose 911

Please visit Boerries Burkhardt's Whitepassfan site for more caboose photos.

Thanks to Robert Hilton for much of the history of these cabooses. Correct information is Robert's. Mistakes are mine.

Bruce Pryor