Conrail Caboose Photo Archive
The N-21 Class
The only true Conrail Caboose

In 1978 Conrail ordered 113 N-21s and numbered them 21201-21313. This was Conrail's first and only order for cabooses. They were built by the Fruit Growers Express in Alexandria, Virginia, and had extra seating for deadheading crews .

 

Similar at first glance to all the bay windows built before them, they weighed about 52,800 Ibs.

N21

 Location & information

Date

Photo Credit
 Marysville OH
next to the Honda plant		  April 5, 1998  Jim Hebner
 21204
  Canton OH  Sept 3, 1992  Chip Syme
 21204
  Canton OH  Sept 3, 1992  Chip Syme
     
 Central OH?
A bit blurry - fast movin' freight!		  Mid 1980s?  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
Croxton yard
Jersey City NJ		 July 1, 2004 Anthony Paci

Croxton yard
Jersey City NJ
now NS 555200

Sept 07, 2007 Anthony Paci
 Rochester NY
Goodman St. Yard		  August 31, 1997  Jim Hebner
 Geneva NY
Pre-Finger Lakes Railway -
on train WAGY-12 Visit Bill's
Syracuse Rails web site to see
more of his photography & railnews
from Syracuse NY		    Bill K
 Rochester NY
Goodman St. Yard
any doubts that this one went
to CSX?		  November 27,1999  Jim Hebner
     
 Kankakee IL
note the headlight for backup moves		 Aug 21, 1993  Paul Rome
     
     Jim Hebner
 Catawissa PA - under restoration
Visit Walt's site to see
what else he is up to!
1997
 Walt Gosciminski
  Sept 1981  John Bartley
 21221
  Latrobe PA
built 7-78		  Sept 10, 1985  Charles Tipton
 21221
  Latrobe PA
built 7-78		  Oct 17, 1997  Charles Tipton
 Mansfield Ohio
yard		  May 18, 2001  Bill Godby
 21227  Arlington VA  April 1979  Dick Leonhardt
 21228  W Tarentum PA  March 26, 1984  Charles Tipton
 21228  W Tarentum PA  Jan 19, 1991  Charles Tipton
 21228  W Tarentum PA  Sept 29, 1991  Charles Tipton
 21228  W Tarentum PA  March 13, 1992  Charles Tipton
21229  Columbus Ohio
Buckeye Yard		  July 1983  Jim Hebner
21229  Brown Yard NJ  January 1996  Jeff Lubchansky
21229  Brown Yard NJ
nice end view		  January 4, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
 21230  Elkhart IN
preserved		 Sept 22, 2001   Dick Leonhardt 
 21230   Elkhart IN
preserved		  April 13, 2006 Sam Sponseller 
 21231  Altoona PA  October 3, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
21233  Charleston WV  July 13, 1997  Jim Hebner
 
21234  Oak Island NJ
on repair track		  May 5,1998  Jeff Lubchansky
21234  Oak Island NJ
on repair track but the other side		  November 8, 1997  Jeff Lubchansky
 21237  Altoona PA  October 2, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
 21240  Arlington VA    Dick Leonhardt
21241

 Indianapolis IN
Avon Yard
  November 9, 1997  Jim Hebner
 21241

 Altoona PA

 October 2, 1998
  Jeff Lubchansky

 21241

 Greenville NJ
Now painted (Nov 1999) CSX Blue and gray as part of SAA

  Feb 2002

 Alan Tillotson
21242

 Indianapolis IN
Avon Yard
  November 9, 1997  Jim Hebner
21250  Elizabethport NJ  January 25, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
   .  Croton NY  Sept 1994  Paul McGrane

 Rochester NY  August 1979  Jim Hebner
 Wilmington DE
On display at the Amtrak Station - Visit Stan's RailPix Site		  May 1995  Stan Feldman
  Operation Lifesaver
at Oak Island NJ		  April 13,1997  Jeff Lubchansky
 21257
  probably central Ohio  March 1990  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
21257
  probably central Ohio  March 1990  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 Niles OH Aug 3, 1996 Chip Syme
 Moraine Yard
Dayton OH		 Jan 5, 1997  Jim Hebner
  Springfield OH
on the end of WSMO12
at CP 182		 July 1996 Jim Hebner
 Roanoke VA
on one of the tracks for bad ordered
cars in the yard 		 Oct 12 2002  Joe Shaw

21263  Cleveland OH  March 1980  Jim Hebner
 21262  Altoona PA
marked with NYC - for CSX?		  October 15,1999  Jim Hebner
 21262

Fillmore CA

Preserved - a long way from home

March 28, 2005 Pual S Highland
 21263    
 21263      
 21263  Orrville OH  July 2001  Matt Cutlip
 21263  Manfield OH
working for NS		  April 11, 2007  Sam Sponseller
21265  Cleveland OH March 1980  Jim Hebner
21265  Central OH  January 1984  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
  21266  Wooster OH  Sept 17, 1991 Ross Jack
21266  Crestline OH  September 21, 1997  Jim Hebner
21268  Columbus Ohio
Buckeye Yard		  July 1983  Jim Hebner
21268 Allentown PA May 1984  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
21268   Florence NJ
as an "idler car" for cars
sided at
an industrial area		 April 18, 1998  Terry Williams
 21270 Avon IN  Aug 7, 1998 Chip Syme
 21271  Ansonia Ohio
CP 189		 Aug 9, 1998 Chip Syme
 21272  Follansbee WV May 16, 1992  Patrick J Yough
 21273

 Buffalo NY
  

 Sal Peragine
21273

 Cleveland OH
Rockport Yard - Visit
Arnie Morscher's Railroad
Site

 Jan 1, 1988

 Arnold H Morscher

 21280  Emsworth PA May 10, 1996 Chip Syme
 21280  Altoona PA  October 2, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
21280 NS has painted it red!
click here to go to Jeff Lubchansky's site or the
index page to his train site		  Oct 2, 1999 Jeff Lubchansky 
 21280  Conway PA Oct 18, 1999 Chip Syme
  21281  A sad sight - wrecked or fire damaged    John/Brian Berger
21284  Rochester NY - near CP 367 on the Buffalo Mainline in Rochester. It was being pushed by a local train (WARO-13) from the Rochester Yard (CP 369) on the way to Cantisano Foods in Fairport (about MP 361)  July 1998  Les Wilson
   21284  Rochester NY
Goodman St. Yard
how about this for an interim CSX paint job?		  November 27,1999  Jim Hebner
21285  Collinwood Oh    Jim Hebner 
21285  sitting at about MP 60.6, on the River Line at Powhatan Point, just about at the end of the track.
Visit his site The Ohio Railroad Page		    Don Narris
 21285  Powhatan Ohio Aug 8, 2001  Chip Syme
21286  Philadelphia PA - Holmesburg Jct.,
Conrail #1633 and this caboose will pick up cars at the small Bleigh Street Yard, and work north on the Amtrak NEC.
Visit Stan's RailPix Site		 July 1997   Stan Feldman

21291  Columbus OH
CP 130		  June 1983  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
21293  Cleveland OH
East end of Collinwood Yard

 May 3 1979

 Jim Hebner
21295

 Anderson IN
  Nov 9, 1997  Jim Hebner
21295  South Anderson IN  Aug 7, 1998 Chip Syme
21296

 Syracuse NY
    Jim Hebner
         
 21299

 Brownsville PA
built Oct 1978
that is coal on the roof

April 30, 1989 Ross Jack

 Detroit MI
was to have been painted red for service in a SAA but it looks like that did not happen
  Aug 2002  Ellis Veech

21303

 Altoona PA
I hate graffiti!

 Oct 3, 1998

 Jeff Lubchansky
 Altoona PA 21303 now
NS has painted it red!
click here to go to Jeff Lubchansky's site or the
index page to his train site
  Oct 1999  Josh Lubchansky
  has "NS Manville NJ" painted under the bay window and is seen in Manville yard in Manville NJ
  Feb 2000  John E Durant
21303
Great Notch NJ
 July 14, 2005 Anthony Paci
 Columbus Ohio
Buckeye Yard
  July 1983 Jim Hebner 
 Berea OH
Rockport local
  Jan 31, 1989  Chip Syme
 Cleveland OH
Eastland Road
Visit Arnie Morscher's
Railroad Photo Site
  July 17,1989  Arnold H Morscher
 Ohio Street Yard
Nov 12, 1998 Robert H
   
 
 21309
 Elkhart IN
  May 3, 1999  Jim Hebner
  Elkhart IN
MP 421
  Aug 5, 1998  Chip Syme
Sharon Yard
Cincinnati OH
  Feb 1, 1998  Jim Hebner
Sharon Yard
Cincinnati OH
the other side
  Feb 1, 1998  Jim Hebner
 Kirkland OH
    Roger Kirkpatrick

 

 

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