Built in January 1946 by Great Northern Railway in St. Cloud, Minn., this steel-frame, wooden-sided caboose entered service with the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad. Originally painted red as caboose No. 853, it operated on the Portland-Wishram-Spokane main line and on branch lines from Astoria to Sweet Home. Burlington-Northern purchased it about 1970, renumbered it No. 11269, and painted it green. It was sold to George Ackerman in Hood River in the late 1970s and purchased by the OCR in 2009. Its total weight, including chassis and wheels, is 48,000 lbs.