Erie Mining caboose paint

[mecgp7]

I am sure this topic will get moved, but does anyone know the original color of the Erie Mining wide vision cabeese? The only pics I can find are of the aged version which look like a combination of boxcar red, oxide red and a healthy dose of rust. And help is appreciated.
Clint

[Missaberoad]

look like a combination of boxcar red, oxide red and a healthy dose of rust.

That single phrase could describe just about anything on the Iron Range! 

As far as I know the Erie mining cabooses were always brown. I don't think they ever wore a version of the blue and silver or the orange and olive drab that the locomotives originally wore. I checked Pat Dorin's, Frank King's, and Dave Schauer's books and there are no as delivered photo's

Here's some (admittedly late) in service shots of all of them.

1 - http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=925304
2 - http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=925305
3 - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rrclubum/ecmo3.JPG
4 - http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=925306

After 1983 they were used primarily for crew accommodations on work trains and weren't used on the ore trains.

Perhaps if there is a book listing International Car co. cabooses there may be a roster or builders photos that can shed more light.

[Missaberoad]

Here's a 1987 shot with (part of) a brown caboose. Looks to be the same color as the band on the locomotives.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/282788/

And just because here's some 1950's/60's EMCO goodness 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1010831
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1378698
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1378696
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2075460

[wcfn100]

I don't think they ever wore a version of the blue and silver or the orange and olive drab that the locomotives originally wore.

Don't leave out this scheme.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Erie-Mining-401-S12-1970-/391745812174?hash=item5b35deb6ce:g:b6wAAOSwmgJY4~Cz


Jason

[wcfn100]

Dorin's "The Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads"  does show a b/w photo of extended vision caboose #4 that is clearly not brown/red.  If I had to guess, I say it's yellow.


Jason

[Missaberoad]

Dorin's "The Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads"  does show a b/w photo of extended vision caboose #4 that is clearly not brown/red.  If I had to guess, I say it's yellow.
Jason

You just added a book to my shopping list I have his two later volumes, and apparently the earlier book has some material left out of the later ones...

edit: and ordered 

Don't leave out this scheme.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Erie-Mining-401-S12-1970-/391745812174?hash=item5b35deb6ce:g:b6wAAOSwmgJY4~Cz
Jason

Love how a small Industrial line that only existed for 51 years had so many paint schemes 

[Missaberoad]

A couple more caboose shots;

Dunka Junction, MN Sept. 29, 1979.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/2719/15659504048/sizes/l

And this undated Dave Schauer photo (likely ~1980) With a caption that thickens the plot...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/18171644@N03/16112187512/sizes/l

Erie Mining caboose No. 1 brings up the rear of a 96-car pellet train headed for Taconite Harbor. EMCO's original cabooses were bay-window but were converted to extended vision as shown here. Erie was an early adopter of EOT devices so it wouldn't be much longer after I took this shot that pellet trains would operate sans caboose.

and for good measure another RS11 in Orange and olive drab

https://www.flickr.com/photos/erie100/6169188199/in/album-72157616690569651/

[wcfn100]

The caption for the caboose in the Dorin book reads:

Recently, EMC took delivery of several caboose from International Car Corp.  The company's original cabooses were bay window cars.

Jason