Long Island Rail Road 
Caboose Roster

NYO&W
   RR

Compiled by Dave Keller

EX-NYO&W Caboose lirr Roster

Road #:

Prev Road: Prev. #: Built: Type: Acq: W.F.S: Remarks:
70 NYO&W 8304  1916 O&W WD 3/57 4/63 Cupola top Renumbered  #75 -1962 Sold to WVRR, New Paltz, NY 
Existing: Santa Monica, CA. Build date on paint scheme should be 1916 		owcab8304.jpg (47585 bytes)
Photo: Russell McConnell  Courtesy: Ken Hojnacki
71 NYO&W 8308 1916 O&W WD 3/57 1960

Cupola top Scrapped at Holban Yard Hollis, 
NY – 6/63

LIRR #71 was burned
in a fire in 1960 along 
with O&W 8360 LIRR #74 

lirr71.jpg (26233 bytes)
1960 LI City Photo: Ken Martin O&W THS

nyow8308.jpg (68258 bytes)

 
72 NYO&W 8306 1916 O&W WD 3/57 4/63 Cupola top Burned at 
L. I. City, NY 4/63 and scrapped

 

 lirr72.jpg (22069 bytes)
6/58 Glen Cove 
photo: Ed Conklin O&W THS
73 NYO&W 8301 1916 O&W WD 3/57 4/63 1945 the O&W strengthened the frames of the 8301-8310 series Rebuilt8301c.1945.jpg (51545 bytes)
Rebuilt 8301 c.1945
Cupola top Sold: 4/63 to Empire State Railway Museum – Middletown, NY Existing.
 lirr73.jpg (12081 bytes)
 6/63 Hollis   photo: O&W THS
Restoration back to NYO&W 8301

Empire State Railway Museum – Middletown, NY    Photo: c. 2000 		ex-lirr73_c.2000.jpg (18289 bytes)
74 NYO&W 8360 1936 O&W WD 3/57 1960

Cupola top Burned with #71 – 1960 Rebuilt: Morris Park Shops –  8/62 with bay windowed steel body.  Renumbered C-80 Re-classed N-52C
Scrapped.
75 See #70 Previously #70 (See above)
C-80  See #74 Repainted in orange and blue and renumbered C-80.

 

Later repainted in the yellow and blue of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), C-80 still plies the rails of the LIRR (as class N-52C).

In 1993 the MTA decided to scrap the caboose body and the O&W trucks were offered at no charge to the Phillipsburg RR Historians. Info: Paul Strubeck

lirr80.jpg (19013 bytes)
1963 Holban Yard, Hollis, Queens, NY  O&W THSc-80.jpg (26991 bytes)
10/72 Hicksville
Photo: Ed Conklin  O&W THS

Thanks to Jeff Sumberg for providing historical background information.