Great Northern Railway X101

This former Great Northern wood-framed caboose was built in 1892, rebuilt in 1909, and retired in 1935.  It was acquired by retiring conductor Ed Shields of Great Falls until the 1970s. It then was owned by Mr. Jack Hoover of Belt, Montana (near Great Falls) from the early 1970s until his passing earlier in 2010, when his daughter Christina Hoover Blackwell donated this valuable historical artifact to the Northwest Railway Museum.