The day draws to an end, and shadows grow long as the sun sets on a PM caboose bringing up the markers and rolling into twilight across the frozen Michigan winter landscape.

The caboose of the Northbound Auto Train from picture 260026, rear end crew picking up orders at the Deland, FL depot on the SCL. Order boards, order hooks, cabooses, all gone! Note apparent wind ... (more)

A conductor riding the caboose inspects the left side of the train, as his patrol returns to the yard.

Electrified Caboose?!.... Nope, just a modified BC Rail Caboose still in its Two-Tone Green heritage once used for testing and repairing overhead power lines on the Tumbler Ridge Sub.

I arrived in Bluefield in the middle of August when most coal mines are shut down for vacation. So a cut of over 20 cabooses was laid out in front of me. So go ahead choose your favorite.

As the day dragged on, the sun and heat gained intensity. I was ready to go back to my motel and crash, but the Santa Fe had a caboose hop coming.

Caboose has been shoved into the pocket track by the southbound, and is now ready to roll down behind the northbound, which will back onto it to complete the train before its return to Tate.

One of my all time favorite caboose paint jobs

It's 1988 and the Burlington Northern is doing some major work on its premier line though Washington. Flash forward to 2008. The BNSF Railway is doing some major work on one of its many lines thou... (more)

A long cut of Chessie cabeese is stored in the former Western Maryland Knobmount Yard, awaiting disposition.

Finale to orders on the fly - see picture 234012

A SP caboose was not an uncommon find at Nahant nor were the GP9s.

I heard this goofy little train all day on the scanner. Its a self-propelled rail crane, a gondola containing a turnout, a flat car of ties and this MOW caboose. But you got to hand it to 'the J,'... (more)