Rolling Stock

End Units -- (aka Cabooses or Conductor Cars) Nos. 9, 14 -- Built by the Baltimore & Ohio as 30-foot, center cupola, wood body, steel frame cabooses and acquired by Buffalo Creek & Gauley RR, Dundon ( Clay County ), [?]-58; donated by Clinchfield Coal Co. Division of Pittston Coal Co. – arrived [2]-[70]; one – either a B&O Class I1 or I1A – was lettered as BC&G C-1, while the other – B&O Class I1A C-410 (built in 1922, retired at Washington, Ind. and sold to BC&G in 11-58) – was still in B&O lettering; the first of the pair (unknown which) entered Whittaker service as CSRR No. 111 in 5-71; the Bald Knob unit, No. 119, followed in 5-72. As converted for CSRR, caboose stairs remained on two corners (opposite ends diagonally); with the other two decked (one for a conductor’s position, a side frame extension and foot step). For severe weather, plexiglass side and front panels were installed on the conductor’s corner in 198[?].

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Open Platform No. 10 -- Another converted Meadow River B-series log car – entered service [5]-7[9]; holds the distinction since 5-92 of being the last of the CSRR cinder cars – banished from regular service in 1993 after rider complaints about cinder-related clothing damage; fall foliage ridership prompted inclusion for Sunday afternoon Whittaker runs in 10-97 – this use also occurred in 10-00; it remains a valued unit for railfan charters and mountain biking events.

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Caboose No. 50 -- Built by Standard Steel Car Co. (Hammond, Ind.) as Chesapeake & Ohio Railway K3-3 Class No. 90788, 11-24 – steel frame, wood-sheathed body, center cupola, archbar trucks; last used in work train service on the Hinton Division; sold to State of W.Va. for Cass ($350, scrap value), 11-66. With only repainting and lettering, placed into service for Railfan Weekend, 5-67; drastically rebuilt for the 1971 operating season – curved end corners and center end cupola windows gone; aluminum frame windows and knotty pine interior installed; for years wore CSRR No. 90788, then with repainting (again bright red, but no lettering and numbering), decorated with the CSRR pine tree medallion; repainted and lettered for Western Maryland Ry. prior to use for Railfan Weekend, 5-97.

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Caboose No. 51 -- Built by Chesapeake & Ohio’s Huntington Shop as K3-2 Class No. 90658, 1924; steel frame, wood-sheathed body, center cupola, archbar trucks; retired in [?]-53; acquired by Meadow River Lumber Co., Rainelle, [?]-56; on the active roster as MRL No. 3 until rail-logging’s closure by successor Georgia-Pacific Corp., 5-71; donated by G-P, arrived 5-72; first operated during railfan events in 5-73; continued to wear MRL lettering, oxide red paint and No. 3 until [?]-8[?]. Given a bright red paint job and No. [90658]; then, with another new coat, became No. 90789, then to oxide red and Western Maryland lettering (No. 1894) for the debut of Shay "Big Six," 5-81. Received a comprehensive rebuilding and new coat of bright red paint in 1996; caboose numbering came as the result of an FRA directive in 2000.

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Ex-Virginian Caboose -- Center-cupola, steel model built for the Virginian R.R. by either St. Louis Car Co. (if No. 324 or below) or Princeton (W.Va.) Shops (if No. 325 or up) [construction date and class unknown]. With that line’s merger into the Norfolk & Western, rostered as No. 530311; retirement date [unknown]. Acquired for scrap value by Kovalchick Salvage and stored at the old Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio. Discovered by MSR&LHA members during a visit to inspect ex-Elk River Coal & Lumber Shay No. 19 for possible purchase; acquired by MSRLHA, 12-95. Three months later, it was moved by MSRLHA (using Kovalchick's small switcher), to the CSX interchange. After contracted repairs to brake system and addition of roller-bearing wheelsets, shipped to Elkins, where it was stored. In 1999, it was leased for five years to Durbin & Greenbrier Valley R.R. (operator of the State-owned West Virginia Central) for use on freight trains (Tygart Junction-to-Elkins mainline, Daily branch). Sold by MSR&LHA to the CSRR in 2005.

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