Union Pacific Cabooses
This page was last updated on June 16, 2021.
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Cabooses shown without a retirement date were in service during May 1995.
Class CA-9
(100 cars built by International Car in Kenton, Ohio)
| Car Number |
Date Built |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| UP 25600 | Mar 1967 | 19 Feb 1987 | |
| UP 25601 | Mar 1967 | 11 May 1989 | Donated to City of Shoshone, Idaho; sold to private individual in March 2005, moved to temporary location in Shoshone; moved to West Magic Resort in early November 2005, located 27 miles north and west of Shoshone. (2005 update from Don Hartman) |
| UP 25602 | Mar 1967 | 19 Sep 1988 | Donated to City of Atlanta, Texas |
| UP 25603 | Mar 1967 | Sep 1973 | Wrecked on April 28, 1973 on SP |
| UP 25604 | Mar 1967 | Sold to Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad 049, Island, City, Oregon | |
| UP 25605 | Mar 1967 | 14 Apr 1987 | |
| UP 25606 | Mar 1967 | 21 Sep 1989 | Donated to Town of Albin, Kentucky |
| UP 25607 | Mar 1967 | 11 Oct 1991 | Located at Boone County Museum, Albion, Nebraska |
| UP 25608 | Mar 1967 | 12 Jan 1990 | Displayed at Nimbus Winery, Nimbus (Rancho Cordova), California; still there as of mid November 2020 |
| UP 25609 | Mar 1967 | 26 Dec 1990 | Located at a metal salvage yard in Green River, Wyoming |
| UP 25610 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25611 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25612 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to City of Wellington, Missouri, September 1989 |
| UP 25613 | Apr 1967 | 26 Dec 1990 | Donated to City of Sachse, Texas; used as office space for the Chamber of Commerce; interior to be restored during 2017 by the Sachse Historical Society. |
| UP 25614 | Apr 1967 | 18 Oct 1989 | Donated to Town of Muldrow, Oklahoma |
| UP 25615 | Apr 1967 | 8 Dec 1988 | |
| UP 25616 | Apr 1967 | 22 Feb 1990 | Donated; displayed at Krupps Scout Hollow Boy Scout Camp, Lorenzo, Idaho |
| UP 25617 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to Carbon County Tourism Center, Rawlins, Wyoming, June 1989; displayed at former UP Rawlins depot; still there in mid August 2020. |
| UP 25618 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | |
| UP 25619 | Apr 1967 | 22 Aug 1989 | |
| UP 25620 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25621 | Apr 1967 | 2 Nov 1989 | Donated to Laramie County Commission, Cheyenne, Wyoming; displayed at Sapp Brothers Big C Truck Stop & Store in Archer, Wyoming |
| UP 25622 | Apr 1967 | 14 Apr 1987 | Wrecked on 22 April 1986 at North Platte, Nebraska; detrucked, and sent to Omaha for disposition, January 1987 |
| UP 25623 | Apr 1967 | 11 Jul 1990 | Presented to a retiring UP official; moved to Waco Products, Incorporated at 1330 Knecht Ave., Arbutus (Baltimore), MD; as of late October 2011, to be moved to an unknown location; donated to Stewartstown Railroad on August 12, 2015, moved by truck from Baltimore location to Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, on August 12, 2015. |
| UP 25624 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | (See separate note for UP 25624, below) |
| UP 25625 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Wrecked in mid September 1987 at Bliss, Texas, on SP; returned to UP at Los Angeles; moved to UP at Omaha on a flat car for, disposition |
| UP 25626 | Apr 1967 | 24 May 1989 | |
| UP 25627 | Apr 1967 | 13 Apr 1989 | UP 25627 was donated to Baker City Chamber of Commerce, Baker City, Oregon; displayed at the Best Western motel; moved to Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration, Baker, Oregon; arrived in Baker in UP colors, later repainted by Sumpter Valley Railway to green; sold to Raymond Myer of West Linn, Oregon; moved on November 2, 2004 to Perry, Oregon just west of La Grande, onto his father's three acres. (update by Elvin Klepzig, "Smitty" at RailroadArchives.net, dated February 6, 2011) |
| UP 25628 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | |
| UP 25629 | Apr 1967 | 2 Oct 1986 | |
| UP 25630 | Apr 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25631 | May 1967 | 28 Apr 1992 | |
| UP 25632 | May 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to Thayer County Museum, Belvidere, Nebraska, September 1989 |
| UP 25633 | May 1967 | 17 Jan 1991 | Displayed in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, located about a mile west of the Bartlesville, Oklahoma airport for at least 10 years prior to 2007; sold to JFS Railcar; sold to a private individual and loaded on flatcar by late December 2007 and moved to western South Dakota for use as a summer cabin. (update from Roger Kirkpatrick, Jay Hastings, and John Sullivan, via email dated January 22, 2008) Seen en route at Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 23, 2008. (Railroad Forums.com; email from Jay Hastings via Roger Kirkpatrick) |
| UP 25634 | May 1967 | 20 Apr 1990 | Renumbered to UP 906251, April 1990 |
| UP 25635 | May 1967 | 12 Dec 1988 | Donated to City of Gothenburg, Nebraska; displayed in, Hershey, Nebraska |
| UP 25636 | May 1967 | 11 Jul 1985 | |
| UP 25637 | May 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to City of Judsonia, Arkansas; may be the caboose displayed at Higginson, Arkansas as of April 2003. (Information from Roger Kirkpatrick) |
| UP 25638 | May 1967 | 20 Nov 1987 | |
| UP 25639 | May 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25640 | May 1967 | 13 Jun 1990 | |
| UP 25641 | May 1967 | 2 Oct 1990 | Renumbered to UP 906256, October 1990; displayed as UP 25641 at Boulder City, Nevada |
| UP 25642 | May 1967 | 23 Apr 1990 | |
| UP 25643 | May 1967 | 23 Apr 1990 | To Tacoma Municipal Belt Line (TMBL) 201; changed to Tacoma Rail (TMBL) 201 in 1998. |
| UP 25644 | May 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to City of Edgewood, Texas, September 1989 |
| UP 25645 | May 1967 | 18 Oct 1989 | Donated to City of Alexandria, Louisiana |
| UP 25646 | May 1967 | 5 Dec 1989 | |
| UP 25647 | May 1967 | 18 Nov 1987 | |
| UP 25648 | May 1967 | ||
| UP 25649 | May 1967 | 5 Dec 1989 | Displayed at Clay Center, Kansas |
| UP 25650 | May 1967 | 30 Aug 1989 | Donated to City of Springfield, Nebraska, September 1989; displayed in Buffalo Park in Springfield; sold in April 2014 to Sarpy County Museum in Bellevue, Nebraska; moved from Springfield 18 miles to Bellevue on August 15, 2014. |
| UP 25651 | May 1967 | 29 Dec 1993 | |
| UP 25652 | May 1967 | Sep 1977 | Wrecked on 19 August 1977 at Lakeside, Utah, scrapped at, site |
| UP 25653 | May 1967 | 20 Jan 1988 | |
| UP 25654 | Jun 1967 | 26 Apr 1989 | Donated to Clark County Centennial Commission, Dubois, Idaho, May 1989; displayed in city park |
| UP 25655 | Jun 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25656 | Jun 1967 | 22 Aug 1989 | Donated to Depot Institute, Cascade, Idaho, September, 1989; displayed at Cascade airport |
| UP 25657 | Jun 1967 | 1 Apr 1987 | |
| UP 25658 | Jun 1967 | 8 Mar 1990 | Displayed at Wills Point, Texas, as of March 1, 2015; appears to be maintained by the City of Wills Point. It has been repainted in a red Texas and Pacific scheme but the original numbers and lettering are visible through the red paint. (2015 update from David Fleming, email dated March 1, 2015) |
| UP 25659 | Jun 1967 | 22 Aug 1989 | Donated to Boys Scouts of America, Las Vegas, Nevada |
| UP 25660 | Jun 1967 | Displayed at Handley, Texas, on the southeast corner of the intersection of Handley Drive and East Lancaster Avenue, as part of the Old Towne Handley Railroad Museum. | |
| UP 25661 | Jun 1967 | 30 Aug 1989 | Donated to Village of Waterloo, Nebraska; sold to a private person and moved to Papillion, Nebraska, which objected to the caboose being displayed; sold for salvage and moved to an Andersen Construction-owned storage lot in Council Bluffs, Iowa; seen in July 2003 stored on the ground without trucks |
| UP 25662 | Jun 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25663 | Jun 1967 | 14 Sep 1993 | |
| UP 25664 | Jun 1967 | 28 Dec 1994 | Displayed in Onaga, Kansas, at the Onaga Historical Society Museum Complex. (View a photo of UP 25664 in Onage, Kansas) |
| UP 25665 | Jun 1967 | 1 Jun 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25666 | Jun 1967 | Still in service as of January 2002; stored on UP tracks at Fischer, (Nampa), Idaho; to be moved to Idaho Historical Railways, Cascade, Idaho | |
| UP 25667 | Jun 1967 | 21 Mar 1985 | |
| UP 25668 | Jun 1967 | Still in service as of January 2002; donated to Montrose, Colorado; displayed at former D&RGW depot; still there as of July 2010 | |
| UP 25669 | Jun 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25670 | Jul 1967 | 9 May 1989 | Donated to Limon Chamber of Commerce, Limon, Colorado, June, 1989 |
| UP 25671 | Jun 1967 | 23 Apr 1990 | |
| UP 25672 | Jun 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to Homesteaders Museum, Torrington, Wyoming, June, 1989 |
| UP 25673 | Jun 1967 | 30 Sep 1994 | To UP 903014; former number confirmed by inspection of car while in storage at Cheyenne, April 2003; stored at Laramie, Wyoming; moved to Cheyenne; sold in 2004 to the Kankakee Railroad Museum in Kankakee, Illinois, displayed at the old Illinois Central Depot. (2004 update from Tom Taylor, by way of Jim Harrawood and Roger Kirkpatrick, September 19, 2004) |
| UP 25674 | Jul 1967 | Displayed at Union County Fairgrounds, LaGrande, Oregon; moved to Wallowa Union Railroad at Elgin, Oregon; as of June 2018, painted for Wallowa Union Railroad. | |
| UP 25675 | Jul 1967 | 27 Jun 1990 | |
| UP 25676 | Jul 1967 | 1 Apr 1987 | Wrecked before October 1984 |
| UP 25677 | Jul 1967 | 17 Jan 1991 | Displayed in Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| UP 25678 | Jul 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to Albany Historical Society, Sabetha, Kansas, October 1989 |
| UP 25679 | Jul 1967 | 10 Mar 1989 | |
| UP 25680 | Jul 1967 | 19 Jul 1988 | Displayed at Amlin Realty, Onalaska, Texas |
| UP 25681 | Jul 1967 | 10 May 1991 | |
| UP 25682 | Jul 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25683 | Jul 1967 | Dec 1979 | Wrecked on 4 November 1979 at Ogden, Utah |
| UP 25684 | Jul 1967 | Displayed at Seven Peaks Amusement Park, Provo, Utah | |
| UP 25685 | Jul 1967 | 1992 | Wrecked (collision with coal dumper) on 7 January 1986 at, Oologah, Nebraska; currently located on private property in Kansas City, Kansas |
| UP 25686 | Jul 1967 | 13 Dec 1988 | Donated to AAR Transportation Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado |
| UP 25687 | Jul 1967 | 27 Jun 1990 | Displayed in Marshall, Texas |
| UP 25688 | Jul 1967 | Jun 1980 | Wrecked on 25 August 1978 at Laramie, Wyoming; sold to Smith, & Chambers Railroad Salvage, Neodesha, Kansas; displayed in Neodesha, Kansas |
| UP 25689 | Jul 1967 | 26 Dec 1990 | Sold by Union Pacific and moved to a site near a food restaurant in Channelview, Texas (near Houston); sold in 2007 and moved to a farm in Bastrop, Texas (near Austin), displayed on a short piece of track. |
| UP 25690 | Jul 1967 | 26 Dec 1990 | |
| UP 25691 | Jul 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Donated to Potter Historical Museum, Potter, Nebraska, September 1989 |
| UP 25692 | Jul 1967 | 30 Aug 1989 | Donated to Polk County Museum, Osceola, Nebraska |
| UP 25693 | Jul 1967 | 14 Apr 1987 | |
| UP 25694 | Aug 1967 | 25 May 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25695 | Aug 1967 | 18 Oct 1989 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25696 | Aug 1967 | 10 Mar 1989 | Located on Turlock Western Railroad, in Turlock, California, since at least April 2004; still there as of July 2, 2015. |
| UP 25697 | Aug 1967 | 1 Nov 1988 | Sold to Alter Trading Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1990, scrapped |
| UP 25698 | Aug 1967 | 22 Aug 1989 | Donated to Boy Scouts of America, Las Vegas, Nevada; moved in 1991 to Kimball Scout Reservation on Mount Potosi, southwest of Las Vegas; moved to the Nevada State Railroad Museum (Nevada Southern Railroad) at Boulder, Nevada, and placed on live track on June 15, 2021. (2021 update from Greg Ramsey, email dated June 15, 2021) |
| UP 25699 | Aug 1967 | 10 May 1991 |
UP 25624
UP 25624 was sold to John Larkin, while the caboose was stored in the old MP yard in Omaha, Nebraska, among 200 other cabooses; UP 25624 was moved to the Iowa Interstate, then moved again to the Missouri Central Railroad (MSCI) at Union, Missouri near St. Louis, when that railroad was purchased by Mr. Larkin; the caboose was moved to Iowa Northwestern (IANW) in 2001 when Mr. Larkin sold his interest in MSCI and purchased the Iowa Northwestern; in occasional service as IANW 25624; painted green with a cream-colored band, without lettering; currently stored, available for sale or lease. Another report has 25624 as having been sold to Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad at Fremont, Nebraska, on May 3, 1999. A report from December 2002 had UP 25624 sporting MSCI reporting marks, and being located at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
During January 2012, UP 25624 was being offered for sale at auction.
(Information from Roger Kirkpatrick, and from John Larkin via email dated July 13, 2011)
(Union Pacific records show, in error, that UP 25624 was donated to Baker City Chamber of Commerce, Baker City, Oregon. This was actually UP 25627, which was later reported as being used to advertise the Sumpter Valley Railway tourist train.)
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