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Viewing Album:  Caboose or Shoving Platform?
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:7/13/2011 - 7/13/2011
Album Info:Tailing along after the new IHB GenSet 2141 (in another album by itself) and its covered coil car consist (again in still another album) was IHB caboose #54. Tacked on the end of the line of cars, it has the look of a traditional train from years ago. After pulling through the Dolton crossing, it slows, stops, and then backs through the crossing with caboose #54 now serving as a shoving platform. So which is it - caboose or shoving platform?
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IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  Surprised when I saw caboose #54 slide by at the tail end of a string of covered coil cars behind the new IHB genset 2141.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:30:27 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  A caboose at the end just looks right.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:30:48 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  82   Comments: 1
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  IHB Caboose #54 slides under the Dolton signal bridge on its way east on the IHB line.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:30:51 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  88   Comments: 1
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  Just looks right with the caboose at the end of a train as it gets ready to cross Lincoln Avenue in Dolton, IL.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:30:54 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  Crossing Lincoln Avenue in Dolton, IL is IHB caboose 54 at the tail end of a string of covered coil cars.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:30:57 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  103   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  IHB caboose had barely cleared Lincoln Avenue crossing before it started to slow down in preparation to back through the intersection.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:31:00 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  83   Comments: 1
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  When the conductor stepped onto the caboose platform, it was a clear signal that it would be backing. Does a caboose change instantly into a shoving platform at this point?
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:38:17 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  IHB #54, now ashoving platform, backs toward the Lincoln Avenue crossing at Dolton, IL.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:38:03 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  The conductor wipes his brow on the hot day as IHB shoving platform #54 backs toward the intersection.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:38:07 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  Hmm, it may be a shoving platform now but it still looks like a caboose to me! A rose is a rose is a rose!
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:38:11 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  120   Comments: 2
IHB 54
Title:  IHB 54
Description:  IHB shoving platform #54 disappears in the west with its line of covered coil cars trailing behind.
Photo Date:  7/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 4:38:14 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  79   Comments: 0

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