UP 25223 -- Cisco TX
N 32° 23.538 W 098° 58.778
14S E 501915 N 3583920
The Union Pacific caboose number 25223 at the Conrad Hilton Center in downtown Cisco Texas
Waymark Code: WMPTV8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2015
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This retired Union Pacific caboose stands in a small family Park on the far eastern edge of the Conrad Hilton Center in downtown Cisco, Texas. The caboose is locked, but you can climb on it in peek inside.
The UP caboose makes sense here because Cisco is located on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, which was purchased in 1928 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Missouri Pacific allowed the T&P to operate separately until 1976. Four years later the Union Pacific bought the Missouri Pacific. Source: Wikipedia (
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From Roger Kirkpartrick's Captive Caboose List: (
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"Cisco TX UP 25223 Steel, cupola, Class CA-5, Conrad Hilton Memorial Park & Community Center"
From the Utah Rails Net UP caboose list: (
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"UP 25223
Built Aug 1952
Previous number UP 3923
Date renumbered May 1959
Date retired 11 May 1989
Disposition Donated to Cisco Historical Society, Cisco, Texas."