Chicago & North Western red caboose with workman on roof – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Chicago & North Western red caboose with workman on roof, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Chicago & North Western red caboose with workman on roof
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A red caboose of the Chicago & North Western stands as the focus here, with a workman perched on its roof. Cabooses like this one were the rear car of a freight train, where the conductor kept records, watched the train from the cupola, and rode out the long hauls across the Midwest. Railroads ran many of these cars through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the open roof platform in this scene shows how crews worked on them as well as rode in them. The Chicago & North Western, a major Midwestern carrier that served Chicago and lines to the upper Midwest, painted its rolling stock in distinctive colors that make its cars easy to recognize in old photographs.
| Original scan | 3,171 × 2,398 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34685u C & NW RR, puttin caboose |
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