This caboose is painted in its original maroon and gray SAR livery. Cabooses are used as living quarters, usually for personnel on tasks away from home at places without suitable accommodation. Even though they are always painted in passenger car livery, they usually run as part of goods trains. Side A is the compartment side and apart from the door at the vestibule at one end, this model has no other doors on this side. The interior layout was, from the left, a kitchen, a two-bed coupe and storage, a bathroom, two two-bed coupes, and a saloon with a bunk bed.SAR Type ZO-1, Number range 14501 to 14554, Built 1959, Length over headstocks 44' 0", Height 12' 1 5/16", Width 9' 2 3/8", To sleep 6 & 2 attendants. |