A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 'engineers school' freight begins the climb toward Cumbres on a frosty autumn morning near Dalton,NM.

Susquehanna train NTV-4 negotiates the shelf next to the Delaware River at Basket, New York. Apparently management has applied a belt and suspenders approach to monitoring the rear of the train, a... (more)

SOO caboose no. 87 brings up the rear of an eastbound freight headed for Milwaukee as it passes through Pewaukee, WI just of the town. Soo Line was a late adopter to FREDs, which allowed an extend... (more)

The 2nd La Mirada shoves through Fullerton enroute to the Kimberly Clark Spur with a BN caboose leading the way.

The Soo Line acquisition of the Milwaukee Road in 1985 led to a lot of shuffling of equipment. The Soo had a pretty traditional reputation and when they unexpectedly ended up with the Milwaukee it... (more)

A Conrail TV (trailer van) train makes good time heading east after servicing at Cleveland, OH's Collinwood yard. The former NYC bay window caboose displays perhaps the smallest bay windows applie... (more)

NP caboose no. 10780 has reached the end of the line at Duluth, MN in September 1970. It appears it had a slight incident involving the rear steps, enough no doubt to cause its retirement since it... (more)

Santa Fe extended vision caboose brings up the rear of an intermodal freight at MP 233 from Chicago in Ft. Madison, IA on Santa Fe's Chicago-Kansas City speedway.

The new and the old. CP wide vision caboose no. 434493 gets shoved around Pt. Coquitlam by a vintage Baldwin DS 4-4-1000 updated to CP's candy cane scheme. The caboose has a longer life ahead than... (more)

The LNW caboose brings ups the rear of the power swap at the Gibsland engine house.

The caboose of Norfolk Southern local A54 is crossing 3rd Ave in Attalla, Alabama as the train backs into Attalla Yard. The train is returning from working the GS branch, and the caboose is used a... (more)

Interestingly, this wide-vision caboose is a former Great Northern car, but it is nicely painted in Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s red stripe over silver scheme. The caboose sits just outside th... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande steel cupola caboose 01415 was found in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 28, 1973. This order of cabooses, 01410-01419, was built the Rio Grande’s Burnham Ships in August and Sep... (more)

The rear of a coal train bound for Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station rolls through Bangor, Pennsylvania. I’m standing in what was once a modest yard, and to the left, there was... (more)

The caboose of what is likely Conrail train BUOI crosses the Starrucca Viaduct on its eastward journey. Below is the Delaware & Hudson Penn Division, which has been relegated to occasional dimensi... (more)