A glossy Chesapeake & Ohio caboose No. 3300 rests at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 9, 2014.

It's just another day on the Cornell local out of Altoona, WI. The rear brakeman throws the switch back to the main after a meet with train 406 at Koll siding on Chippewa Falls' south side. The tr... (more)

GBW caboose #14 waits for the crew to finish switching the car ferry in Kewaunee, WI before heading back to Green Bay in October of 1986. The unused ferry Arthur Atkinson rests in the background.

Soo Line caboose #8 trails a Lake States train travelling along Division Street in Oshkosh, WI in April of 1987. Not a trace of the railroad remains here today.

Are you lost? Companion photo to 645776. MILW caboose 99225 brings up the rear of a coal train thru Belton on the CNW south of Butler Yard in January of 1985. CNW's distinctive semaphore for westb... (more)

Even in 2018, a caboose is a conductors best friend! Norfolk Southern local L91 has gone into town to switch the industries, and is seen here shoving back to East Wayne Yard with former N&W caboos... (more)

UP caboose's 25461 and 25815 trail a westbound freight along Hwy 30 near North Platte, NE in May of 1989.

A trio of cabs bring up the rear of a westbound freight east of Horseshoe Curve (~MP 240).

An eastbound CP freight kicks up the snow at Ruskin, BC after a blizzard has hit the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver in February 1986.

A C&NW local rolls west past the C&NW passenger station at Eau Claire, WI. The railroad still used the station at this time for the freight agent, but in several years it would be torn down. At th... (more)

A reverse move westward is in progress on this former B&O Chicago Terminal line, with some pretty fancy shove protection at the rear of this train.

Burlington Northern caboose No. 10037 trails eastbound empties at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on August 9, 1991. The locomotives of the short train have just passed the power of a coal load in th... (more)

A privately owned engine and caboose head north on the Newport Secondary track following a rare Old Colony & Newport charter extra. Once both trains reached "Humpback" in Portsmouth, JPE... (more)

A nicely-painted Chicago, Burlington & Quincy wide-vision caboose sits just outside the Aurora Transportation Center and alongside the Metra platform at Aurora, Illinois, on November 10, 2017. The... (more)

An ex BN caboose sits in the sun in BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis. With the windows plated over, this caboose is now only used as a shoving platform.