Missouri Pacific donated number 11351 to the city of Cotter in 1986; it was originally located near Cotter's North Arkansas Youth Center. During 1989, vandals completely destroyed the interior and weakened its structure by fire; all windows and doors were then welded over. It was moved to this location during August of 2001 and was repainted during October 2002.

The original car had four windows on the right side and three on the left side. It's present paint scheme, location/size of letters/numbers/heralds, white stripes, buzzsaw heralds and removal of roofwalk restores the caboose to Missouri Pacific's 1960's Caboose rebuilding program era.

The year 1948 was the start of the Missouri Pacific steel caboose era. From 1948 to 1950, Missouri Pacific built 215 steel cabooses to replace the old wooden types; of these 180 with steel welded sides were built at the Sedalia shops with 35 with steel riveted sides were built at the DeSoto, Missouri shops. The exterior paint scheme was a boxcar red with 24" diameter buzzsaw heralds on the sides directly under the herald. Small numbers may have been placed over the doors. These steel cabooses were big, roomy and had massive underframes that could take a lot of abuse; they were to be replaced by the 1971 steel extended vision types but many were still in service in the late 80's. Most of Missouri Pacific's standard steel cabooses were rebuilt in the 1960's at Sedalia.

Artist: Westbrook, Jim, sculptor.
Title: Anglin-Tinnon Railroad Workers Memorial, (sculpture).
Dates: 2002. Dedicated May 2, 2003.
Medium: Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.
Dimensions: Sculpture: approx. 5 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 6 in. x 2 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 6 in.
Inscription: (Sculpture, back:) J. Westbrook / '02 signed
Description: A standing figure of a uniformed railroad conductor with his left arm raised and his right arm extended.
Subject: Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Transportation -- Railroad
Object Type: Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Cotter
Owner: Administered by City of Cotter, Georgia Street, Cotter, Arkansas 72626
Located Big Spring Park, McLean Avenue, Cotter, Arkansas
Remarks: The sculpture was funded with $100,000 left in the will of Gwen Tinnon Derouin to the Cotter Care Crews for the establishment of a memorial to Roy Lee Anglin and to her father Hugh Tinnon. Governor Huckabee and the Arkansas Arts Council provided an additional $7,000.
References: State of Arkansas, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, 2004.
Note: The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.