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Member-Owned Cabooses
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Caboose No. 01022 (Seaboard Coast Line)
This M5 caboose was built in 1974 from a 1940s-era boxcar. It has been owned by Bill Evans, president of the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway, since 1980.
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Caboose No. 24014 (Penn Central)
This N10 caboose was built by Penn Central Railroad in 1969 and was in service through the early 1990s. It arrived at the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway in 2004, making it the most recent addition to the railway. It is owned and being restored by Jim and Sue Hebner of Springfield, Ohio.
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Caboose No. 3015 (Baltimore & Ohio)
This I18 caboose was built by B&O in 1966. It was built by International Car Corporation in Kenton, Ohio for the B&0. It was the first non-B&O built caboose, the first class to have roller bearings and the last one to have roof walks. It is owned Fred Eichler of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Caboose No. 6108 (Louisville & Nashville)
L&N 6108 is painted to the correct scheme after its 1970s rebuild, when all windows, except bays, were covered with steel plates, the end ladders were shortened and the roof walk was removed. It was built in 1964 as L&N 1108 in the South Louisville Shops of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad on the frame of a 50-ton coal hopper. Larry Blake, of Columbus, Ohio, obtained it from the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway in a deal brokered by John Riddle, former C&O division superintendent.
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Caboose No. C-2550
Built in 1981, for Louisville & Nashville, by Fruit Growers Express, Alexandria, Virginia, this was a mainline, not a transfer, caboose and originally part of the L&N series 6600 to 6649. Dwight Jones acquired it in 1998 from CSX and refurbished it as B&O C-2550. The car is painted in a colorful and historic B&O boxcar scheme. It is among the last cabooses built for use in the U.S. Within a few years of these cars being built, U.S. railroads began phasing out cabooses. Other cars from this same series can still be found operating on CSX as shoving platforms.
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Caboose No. 118 (Detroit, Toledo & Ironton)
Built in 1949, for the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, by International Car at Kenton, Ohio. It was acquired by Dwight Jones in 1996 and refurbished as DT&I 100. The body style is identical to similar cars built for the DT&I by ICC. Given a ten-year refurbishment in 2006 and renumbered as DT&I 118, it is one number higher than cars actually owned by DT&I.
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Caboose No. C-2553 (Baltimore & Ohio)
Built in 1980, for the Baltimore & Ohio, by Fruit Growers Express, Alexandria, Virginia, this caboose was in the B&O series 904000 to 904093. This was the last group of cabooses built for the B&O. It was acquired by Dwight Jones from CSX in 2004 and refurbished as B&O C-2553. One side is painted in a colorful and historic scheme used on a few B&O boxcars. The opposite side is painted red in support of the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway. Other cars from this same series can still be found operating on CSX as shoving platforms.
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Caboose No. 210xx (Seaboard Coast Line)
Ralph Calvert
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