09/18/2025
As we are getting ready for our October 4th Utter Wagon Train mystery tour at the Birch Creek Oregon Trail site Huntingtons’ Mayor, Chuck Guerri, and his son, Sam, are giving the Snake River Sternwheeler’s office in the Lions Park a face lift.
This riveted CA-4 steel caboose was built by Pullman-Standard at its Michigan City, Indiana plant at a time when one third of the manufacturing work force in America were women. November 1944.
From September to November the plant produced 100 cabooses at a rate of two per day. This caboose was originally painted box car red with white lettering, and numbered UP 3896. The last caboose manufactured in the CA-4 series was UP 3899, the first, UP 3800.
Following Union Pacific’s color scheme change in June 1947, the CA-4s were repainted yellow with red trim and black lettering. April 1959 our caboose was renumbered, UP 25196, and was retired July 11, 1985. April 1986 Union Pacific donated, and set up the caboose where It Is today, in the Lions Park on Main Street in Huntington, Oregon. (Information gathered from UtahRails.net)
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