UP still employs an old CNW caboose on the rear end of the LIPs train, facilitating back-up moves.
The X461 looks great in the morning light.
The wildflowers are out in full force near the yard as caboose 11770 awaits its next assignment. BNSF still has a number of them in the metro area for local trains and MOW work.
Fresh out of the paint shops and looking excellent! After years of running in scruffy Soo colors it is a big change to see it in new paint. Not to mention the fact that windows that were removed... (more)
Standing on the rear platform of the caboose, the brakeman is going to be enjoying a beautiful sunrise in a few minutes. PM 1225 is hustling a northbound freight past Smith Rd.
The conductor on train #2 prepares to disembark as the caboose approaches the Wisconsin Rapids yard office.
Out the rear of restored steel caboose originally built in 1941 by the IC shops in Centralia.
Former SR local caboose X201 bringing up the rear of a Heart of Dixie RR Museum - C&S RR regular excursion arriving at Springs Junction on the former L&N Alabama Mineral Subdivision - MP 430.
Restored Monon caboose on display at the Linden Railroad Museum. Behind it is the former Monon main line, now owned by CSX.
A local equestrian raced the train to the crossing, but 1225 won by 25 car lengths!
Caboose #114 brings up the rear end of an eastbound Boat Train departing Norwood Yard.
Another good find in Milner, a former B&O caboose, still in okay condition.