[modeleng] Windows

Recently our club, Mid-South Live Steamer's, purchased a used L&N steel caboose 
to use as office at the meets and it was noticed that several of the windows 
had been welded over with 1/4" thick steel plates.  I found out that this was 
because of a 1980s mandate by our benevolent government that cabeese be fitted 
with shatterproof glass in all windows as protection against thrown bricks when 
passing through ghettos .  It was deemed cheaper to armor plate the windows 
with steel rather than shatterproof glass, but a few windows were not covered 
over.  Some railroads opted to cover over all of the side windows, but our 
caboose has two glass windows to each side.  Also, the cupola windows were not 
covered over as one really does need to keep an eye out for hot boxes etc.
Of course, hotboxes are pretty much a thing of the past these days of roller 
bearings so the cabeese have gone the way of steam locomotives.  This has made 
it really hard on hoboes as they depended on the oil soaked string packing in 
the boxes as fire starters for their camp fires.  Maybe the hoboes are gone as 
well?

Jesse in Troy, TN where it has warmed up into the 70s today.
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