CSTM/CN005404 The CVR used its cabooses to advertise its
            “Rocket” fast-freight service in the early 1930s and again in the 1970s. Caboose 4008 is
            typical of the Canadian National Railway family of wooden “vans” and
            was built according to a Grand Trunk Western design. It was retrofitted with a steel
            underframe in 1929 and sold to the Central Vermont Railway in 1971.

CSTM/CN005404
The CVR used its cabooses to advertise its “Rocket” fast-freight service in the early 1930s and again in the 1970s. Caboose 4008 is typical of the Canadian National Railway family of wooden “vans” and was built according to a Grand Trunk Western design. It was retrofitted with a steel underframe in 1929 and sold to the Central Vermont Railway in 1971.



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