Template:Did you know nominations/The Red Caboose Motel

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:24, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

The Red Caboose Motel

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Motel cabooses

... that The Red Caboose Motel (pictured) has the largest privately-owned collection of railroad cabooses in the world? Source: ref 43:"World Record Number of Corralled Cabooses".

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gemmi Fault
Comment: 2643 characters on 8/4 before expansion, 15,208 after.

5x expanded by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 03:06, 31 August 2020 (UTC).

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The linked source says only that he expects to get into the Guinness Book of Records in 1984. (I cannot find such an entry.) Do we have another source? Or another hook? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:39, 31 August 2020 (UTC) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:39, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, the Hinkley book (ref 8) says it also [1]. MB 22:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Okay. I have added that reference to the hook fact in the article. Good to go. All aboard! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:01, 31 August 2020 (UTC)