We were unable to locate this caboose, and believe it to be destroyed by a tornado. This caboose, along with C&S 10649/BN 10649/SPKM 10649/DRMX 10649, was located at the Red Rooster Inn, on the Northwest Expressway near Piedmont, OK. Car was trucked from the Ada area and wears a orange and black paint scheme.

Traci and I tried to locate these two cabooses on 10/8/2021, but were not able to find them, not the Red Rooster Inn. We later found out from residents that the Inn and presumably the cabooses were destroyed by a tornado that blew through there.

Info:

Location: Piedmont, OK. Status: #destroyed. Address: Unknown. Coordinates: Unknown. Map: Cannot find on Google Maps. Type: Wide Vision. Construction: Steel. Built: Unknown. Retired: Unknown. Railroad: Fort Worth & Denver (FW&D). Access: Unknown. Owner: Unknown. Condition: Missing, probably destroyed. Visited: Attempted.

Sources:

ok.railfan.net. Captive Cabeese in America. Marc and Traci Tabyanan.

We were unable to locate this caboose, and believe it to be destroyed by a tornado. This caboose, along with FWD 166/BN 11766, was located at the Red Rooster Inn, on the Northwest Expressway near Piedmont, OK. The car was acquired from the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley in Nebraska and wore a red paint scheme with DRMX reporting marks.

Traci and I tried to locate these two cabooses on 10/8/2021, but were not able to find them, not the Red Rooster Inn. We later found out from residents that the Inn and presumably the cabooses were destroyed by a tornado that blew through there.

Info:

Location: Piedmont, OK. Status: #destroyed. Address: Unknown. Coordinates: Unknown. Map: Cannot find on Google Maps. Type: Wide Vision. Construction: Steel. Built: Unknown. Retired: Unknown. Railroad: Colorado & Southern (C&S). Access: Unknown. Owner: Unknown. Condition: Missing, probably destroyed. Visited: Attempted.

Sources:

ok.railfan.net. Captive Cabeese in America. Marc & Traci Tabyanan.

Town of Picher was removed as part of a Superfund cleanup. This caboose may have been destroyed in that process. We have obviously not visited this caboose yet.

Info:

Location: Picher, OK. Status: #destroyed. Address: Unknown. Coordinates: Unknown. Map: Cannot find on Google Maps. Type: Bay Window/Cupola. Construction: Steel. Built: Unknown. Retired: Unknown. Railroad: Burlington Northern (BN). Access: Unknown. Owner: Unknown. Condition: Missing, probably destroyed. Visited: Not yet.

Sources:

ok.railfan.net. Captive Cabeese in America. Marc & Traci Tabyanan.

This caboose was scrapped and salvaged by the Oklahoma Railway Museum, and is no longer available (per Museum, 3/19/2023). We visited the site in 2022, and saw the remains of where it was displayed, but it was obviously not there.

Info:

Location: Oklahoma City, OK. Status: #destroyed. Address: 9495 W Reno Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73127. Coordinates: 35.46473N, 97.68516W. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/hB6yAPWKevgQBpGZA. Type: Construction: Built: Unknown. Retired: Unknown. Railroad: Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific (CRI&P). Access: None. Owner: Unknown. Condition: Destroyed. Visited: 3/19/2023.

This is the map location where the caboose was formerly displayed.

Sources:

ok.railfan.net. Captive Cabeese in America. Marc and Traci Tabyanan.