More info on 1006

In probing the history of how C&S caboose 1006 came to Silver Plume I've found a few more interesting details.  First, is this comment from Chris Lane on my previous post:

"While the CB&Q may have sent crews out in the 1950s to spruce up equipment, I can say for certain that the late 1960s-early 70s work was done by volunteers from the Denver O Scale Club using paint donated by the "Q". They had very limited materials and budget, (they patched a few holes in the roof with flattened beer cans), but the repairs and paint lasted long enough to get 1006 to the much more thorough restoration in the 1980s. by Tom Young of the Charing Cross Bookstore."

I also remembered why I had it in my mind that 1006 seemed "dumped."  It was from a page in the book Georgetown and the Loop (1988) by P.R. "Bob" Griswold, Richard H. Kindig, and Cynthia Trombly.  The page where this seemed implied is here:

Here are the captions:
"When the four-wheeled Colorado and Southern caboose was left at Silver Plume, there were no rails under its wheels, and over the ten year period the wheels just sank into the gravel.

"A view from the caboose roof showing its tilted but still intact stack.  The old Buckley warehouse is in the background.

"The Colorado and Southern four-wheeled caboose rests near Silver Plume depot in a very sad condition about ten years after the railroad was removed.  -- William B. Otto Photos."

It seems awfully strange that if the C&S donated the caboose to Silver Plume, as the C&S Railway Society stated, why would they have left it on the ground without a display track?  Both of the trains at Idaho Springs and Central City were very nicely displayed.

Also, it appears as though the caboose is not red in the above 1950s photos, but to be some other lighter color.

The previous page in the book showed 1006 in the 1980s.  Notice how small the C&S emblem appears compared to an oddly large circle in the above 1950s photo.  Also, the publisher appears to have switched the photo captions by accident.

Here is the text:
"Thanks to the efforts of Tom Young, the Colorado and Southern four-wheeled caboose at Silver Plume has been undergoing restoration from its deplorable condition of the 1950s.  The north side of the little crummy has taken on the aspects of near-mint condition; work on the south side is progressing nicely. -- P.R. Griswold Photo."

It is worth noting that both this caption and the blog comment by Chris Lane agree that Tom Young was the force behind the 1980s restoration work.