PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Built by International Car Company in 1967, UP’s CA-9 class numbered 100 cabooses. The cars were very similar to the earlier CA-8 and later CA- 10 designs, but had minor differences in end cages and windows. The cars originally featured square safety slogans, and these were later changed to rectangular slogans. The eye-catching safety slogans made the cars distinctive; the later slogan boards were removable and could be swapped from car to car, meaning that certain road numbers wore several over the course of their lives.

Union Pacific CA-8 Caboose FEATURES:

• Caboose trucks with swing arms, friction or animated roller bearing bearing caps as prototype appropriate

• Various safety slogans, in both early banner style with green lettering and late vinyl decal with special graphics

• Sliding cupola side windows

• 25576 is offered in an early CA-8 Pool service configuration

• Cupola-mounted marker lights when appropriate