According to the Norfolk & Western Historical Society, NW-557545 was stored for scrap at Roanoke, VA in 1990

Move from downtown to Brooks Welding in 2001.
Photographs courtesy of Brooks Welding.

Waiting at Brooks Welding in 2003.
The Caboose was stored for many years at Brooks Welding while a site was prepared at the Lowndes County Historical Society Museum.

R. Wayne Alexander laid the tracks in summer of 2004.

Move to the Lowndes County Historical Museum - September 17, 2004

Brooks Welding moved the Caboose from downtown in 2001 and to the Museum in 2004.

Union Tank Car Company cleaned, prepared, and painted the exterior

The windows were installed in December 2004
and we had a birthday party by the Caboose in March 2005

The next phase of work is the interior of the Caboose.

Plan of a Caboose with fixtures like the one at the Lowndes County Historical Museum.
Our Caboose is N&W 557545 and is a C6P.