A Monongahela caboose punctuates a coal drag that has just cleared the White Cottage tunnel on the Waynesburg Southern branch. By this time, cabooses were quickly becoming a rarity.

A well weathered caboose brings up the rear of CSX train F900-23 as it makes it way out of the sprawling Eastman Chemical Company plant in Kingsport, Tennessee. The crew is leaving the plant with... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Rotary snowplow OY removes some snow through a curve above Dalton, New Mexico, on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Rio Grande caboose No. 0306 carries the mar... (more)

Caboose 999714 almost new in this photo from 1979. BNSF still uses it as a shoving platform at Topeka Ks. as of last year.

BB 223 was originally built as C&O 900251. BB 14 was originally built as SOU 5026A in 1972.

CNW caboose 10958 is on the tail end of a northbound train about to depart Jefferson Jct. for Clyman Jct. Jefferson Jct. was the crossing of CNW's Milwaukee-Madison line and the Fond Du Lac-Janesv... (more)

Railroad history that would soon be lost. A Chessie caboose and a few loaded hopper cars populate the small yard at Thurmond, WV. Adding to the scene are the Engine House and various other steam e... (more)

The Toledo Hauler has arrived at its namesake, and the rear brakeman is preparing to line back the mainline switch. A few weeks later automated dragging equipment detectors were activated, and the... (more)

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois. The branch utilizes 0.8 miles of trackage rights on Chicago & North Western’s Troy G... (more)

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois. The branch utilizes 0.8 miles of trackage rights on Chicago & North Western’s Troy G... (more)

Caboose No. 12132 trails a Burlington Northern local through Compton, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois, ... (more)

Quiet in the tiny hamlet of Walton, Illinois, is disturbed by the infrequent passage of an eastbound Burlington Northern local on June 10, 1984. Trackage on this former Chicago, Burlington & Quinc... (more)

An extra Mill Job delivers generators to the Klamath Cogeneration Plant.

A Union Pacific coal train waits for departure on a rainy and foggy night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in April 1984. Waiting for a new crew, the train, with caboose No. 25650 carrying the markers, will ... (more)

An Illinois Central Gulf “caboose hop” speeds northbound at Pontiac, Illinois, on the former Alton/Gulf, Mobile & Ohio main line running from Chicago to St. Louis in May 1984