Roger Kirkpatrick, long time keeper of the Captive Caboose list, is semi retiring from the position starting in 2006. It is his hope to just work on the list some 4 days a week versus the 7 days he's now putting in. To help him achieve his goal, he has enlisted the help of others to track the whereabouts of cabooses in various states. Here is a listing of those folks. If you have information on a caboose in a particular state on this list please send it to the individual listed here. They in turn will coordinate their efforts with those of Roger. As Roger explains it...

I began in the early 1980's hunting for and photographing B&O, C&O, and WM cabooses in Ohio and adjacent states. At that time I was using lists of extant cabooses from the above roads compiled by Dwight Jones, Columbus, OH. As I began to discover cabooses that were no longer at Dwight's locations and cabooses not on his lists, I began to add them to the lists and advise Dwight.

As I traveled around Ohio I saw lots of cabooses from non Chessie roads and began to list all cabooses in Ohio, knowing somebody would be interested. Then I did the same for West Virginia, then Kentucky, then Indiana, then ...

By 1990 the list included all of the states from the Hudson River to the Mississippi River plus Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado where my wife and I, both teachers, spent part of our summers. In the winter, spring, and summer of 1994, while on sabbatical leave in Leadville, CO, I added the states east of the Hudson and west of Colorado.

The rest, as they say, is history!

I'd personally like to express my gratitude to Roger Kirkpatrick for his efforts through the years to make tracking these cabooses possible today. Thank You Roger. David Epling. January 11, 2006.

Captive Caboose Lists Maintained by Central California Rails Website Click on the text below
California Captive Cabooses	California Captive Cabooses that need information	Nevada Captive Cabooses

State Caboose Chairs   (States without names are still looking for coordinators)
Alabama Dale E Burns	Alaska	Arizona Larry Platt	Arkansas	California David Epling
Colorado	Connecticut	Delaware	District of Columbia Tim Moriarty	Florida Jason Turcyn
Georgia - North (includes Columbus-Macon-Augusta) Jonathan Guy	Georgia - South (of Columbus-Macon-Augusta) Stephen S. Syfrett	Hawaii	Idaho	Illinois
Indiana	Iowa John	Kansas	Kentucky	Louisiana Greg Slaton
Maine	Maryland - West Gerald Altizer	Maryland - East Keith Berkebile	Massachusetts	Michigan
Minnesota Boyd Owens	Mississippi Joseph Y.	Missouri (North of I-70) Don Vaughn	Missouri (South of I-70) John Caples	Montana
Nebraska	Nevada David Epling	New Hampshire Sean McInerney	New Jersey	New Mexico
New York George Wybenga	North Carolina	North Dakota Donald Kinney	Ohio	Oklahoma
Oregon	Pennsylvania Patrick McKnight	Rhode Island	South Carolina	South Dakota Kent Staubus
Tennessee Jonathan Guy	Texas Mary Irving	Utah	Vermont Stephen Barner	Virginia Joe Shaw
Washington	West Virginia Gerald Altizer	Wisconsin Tim Martin	Wyoming	United States Roger Kirkpatrick
ARCHES Ed Mertes
Last updated May 24, 2007

Back to Central California Rails Homepage