Lehigh Valley Railroad caboose No. 95011, built in 1941 at the Sayre Shops, was one of 140 all-steel cabooses produced there during the 1930's and 1940's. Weighing 44,000 pounds, it was a Northeast-style caboose that some considered the Taj Mahal of cabooses for its size, style, and comfort. Like other cabooses, it served as a traveling office and shelter for train crews, with space for the freight conductor to keep records and, on longer trips, living quarters. As railroads adopted new technology and reduced crews, cabooses passed into obsolescence. After service on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, No. 95011 went to Conrail and ended up in the Enola Yards near Harrisburg. Local historian Frank Evans located it, and in 1989 the Valley Railroad Museum purchased it for $2,000. Fundraising led by Sayre businessman Joe Wolf brought in over $4,000, including a $3,000 donation from General Telephone in Sayre, and Sayre Borough provided a one-year, no interest loan through its economic development program. The caboose was delivered to GE Railcar for grit-blasting and repainting inside and out, then moved beside the train station and lettered "The Route of the Black Diamond" in time for Sayre's 100 year celebration, when some called it the Centennial Caboose because the borough was 100 years old and the caboose was 50. After the railroad museum left the train station building in 1994, the caboose was relocated to the municipal parking lot, where it remained until renewed efforts returned it to the museum. Its interior restoration and move back to the museum were made possible by Tom and Gloria Cotter, who also funded interior painting and stairs in memory of Tom's grandfather, Joseph Cotter, a former engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Diamond Express. GE Railcar supplied cranes, exterior paint, and volunteer labor for moving, painting, and lettering the caboose, which became a featured exhibit of the Sayre Historical Society Museum and a look back at railroad history.