ENID OK April 28 1980 -- This sad caboose hadn't been used in awhile as evidenced by the tree growing out from underneath. Sadly, it was a symptom of things to come. The slide mount says Enid but ... (more)

A D&H survivor near the Canadian border. A bit of sun on a mostly cloudy day illuminates a 90-year old caboose that was built in the Delaware & Hudson's Colonie shops in 1916 and was later ... (more)

The small Town of Rainelle, WV is home to a beautifully restored Chessie System Caboose. This caboose sits just across from their town hall in a small "city park" of sorts.

The Milwaukee Road had 2 extended vision cabooses and 1 of them rests in the yard in Green Bay, WI.

New York & Long Branch conductor Richard Morgan fills out his timesheet in his caboose at the end of a long day on the job. In reality, model Richard Morgan poses with original NY&LB paperwork... (more)

Caboose on the rear. The Prairie Dog Central's 11 AM departure is getting ready to leave the station at Inkster Junction with their ex-CP caboose bringing up the rear. Steam is seen up fron... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio “wagontop” caboose C-2478 was one of a hundred built by B&O’s Keyser, West Virginia shops in 1941. After a thirty-nine year career, it was retired, and received a full resto... (more)

Chesapeake and Ohio caboose #3260 is spotted with a fresh coat of paint in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard in Staunton, Virginia.

During a brilliant sunset, a Nevada Northern freight heads west across Steptoe Creek Fill near East Ely, Nevada, on February 2, 2003. In the warm, cozy cupola of wooden caboose No. 5, two crew mem... (more)

By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers... (more)

This one of a kind B&O painted caboose is here today as a result of the hard work and forward thinking of B&O caboose historian Dwight Jones. He came up with the idea in 2002 to take an existing ... (more)

Short and Fast

Just two days before Christmas 1978, a hot Santa Fe intermodal train climbs the eastern grade of the Tehachapi Mountain crossing as it approaches Monolith. This train... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a southbound Union Railroad loaded ore train is URR caboose number 101 at milepost 2 along the North Bessemer Branch in Penn Hills, PA.

Interlocking rings help to visually convey the message of how important the B&O railroad was to the growing nation when it began construction in 1828. This nation's first railroad would help lead... (more)

Gone Daddy Gone

On October 10, 1980, Santa Fe waycar 999009, the tenth caboose rebuilt into the railroad's 283 Ce-1 class cabooses in 1966, is about to duck into the first tunnel at ... (more)