WP 779 is one of few surviving examples of the 1910 built Haskell and Barker built cabooses that were often referred to as "Gould Standard" cabooses. The term "Gould Standard" was a reference to the similarly designed cars built in for the Rio Grande, a railroad also owned by George Jay Gould.

The 779 was sold to the Clover Valley Lumber Company in February of 1947. I don't know its history after that until it showed up in Quincy, California where it sat at the Plumas County Fairgrounds for quite a few years with the WP 463. It was later moved to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California and as of this writing is being shipped to the Gold Hill Historical Society in Gold Hill, NV. First image was taken sometime in the mid 1990s when the car was in Quincy with WP 463. The second image was taken September 20. 2003 in Portola, CA.