Say Goodbye to the Olivette Caboose

At exactly 11:14 a.m. this morning, the 15-ton Wabash caboose that resided in the backyard of Vance Lischer, Jr. and Dorothy Beaman made tracks for the Transportation Museum on the western edge of Kirkwood.

As reporters stood on the ground, and a chopper in the air, the caboose was escorted to the city limits by the Olivette Police.

Select Transport, Inc. of Pacific spent two days of packing up and moving out. The train was squeezed too close to a fire hydrant so a stand by crane lifted the back end of the flat bed truck to make the turn onto Dielman Road.

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From there, the truck turned around in the intersection of Dielman and Old Bonhomme Road, then headed back north on Dielman for Olive Street.

This ends a 20-year history of having a railroad caboose in the backyard of a long-time residence.

Here's one final view of the movement that took place this morning.