One more pusher on one more coal train in the days when cabeese were required in Virginia. Roaring up the long grade approaching the tunnel where we grilled hot dogs, basked in the sun and waited... (more)

On display near the old Western Maryland Railway depot in Westernport MD is WM caboose 1826. Wearing its original paint scheme, most likely a repaint, this car was built by the railroad in August... (more)

The Hagersville Sub road switch pulls as far as its gonna get with four empty centerbeams out, and 4 loaded lumber cars in at Nicholson & Cates. They will then shove back and head south to service... (more)

BN 10249 sits with other cabooses between local runs at Wenatchee, WA. It would continue is service on the BN at least until 1987 when FREDs started taking over rear end duties.

BN 11288 brings up the rear of a northbound BN freight heading from Tacoma to Auburn, WA. Mt. Rainier towers over the caboose near the curve that will turn the railroad towanorth through Sumner an... (more)

CN 79657, a Pt. St. Charles built caboose, brings up the rear of a sulfur train stopped at Boston Bar, BC for a crew change. CN built a large quantity of these cabooses in the first half of the 19... (more)

Caboose. Another railroad bonus was seeing the former Niagara Hobby ex-NW 518438 (painted as Erie Railroad N-3366) caboose, which was recently relocated to Hudson near a barn-style building... (more)

Eastbound Norfolk Southern train U41 has just begun its trip about a mile back in Andover Yard and is about to pass a caboose in a siding in downtown Appalachia, Virginia. The train has eleven cov... (more)

Milwaukee Road’s freight to Green Bay passes the feed mill at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in December 1984. Bay window caboose No. 992117 carries the markers on this pleasant winter day.

My how you have changed..... Soo Line caboose #78 trails a northbound (timetable west) freight as it starts to descend Bryon Hill near Fond Du Lac, WI. in July of 1985. The Soo Line became the WC ... (more)

Former C&O 4421 and a former C&O caboose sit in Hinton yard along with a Seaboard Coast Line gondola. Still holding on in 1986 is a steam era water pipe stand.

A Norfolk & Western caboose has found its way to Conrail’s Allentown yard, most likely on a Delaware & Hudson train. Class C-9 caboose 557784 was built as Nickel Plate 784.

After bringing up the rear on trains of anthracite, this ex-Lehigh Valley caboose ended up working in the bituminous coal fields of western Pennsylvania. This is the rear of the more)

The GECX 24014 caboose was restored and put on display with Christmas lights at GE Transportation's Erie, PA plant for the 2017 Holiday Season.

One of CP Rail's famous yellow wide vision cabooses brings up the rear of a westbound freight as it rolls by the speeder shed and station in a snow storm on (US) Presidents Day weekend in February... (more)