Frisco caboose 1260 trails behind SLSF 866 on an eastbound for St Louis along the parallel Missouri Pacific near Eureka.

Christmas Eve
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy caboose (waycar in CB&Q parlance) No. 14602 glows in the gathering twilight of Christmas Eve 2007. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, ha... (more)

In a cloud of brakeshoe smoke the caboose bringing up the rear of DRGW 5337 west descends the steep three percent grade of Tennessee Pass at the old siding site of Mitchell.

"Let there be light, and there was light". The clouds parted to allow a brief ray of sunshine to light up this old caboose.

A Roger Puta photograph.

A Grande Sunset: "On fire" at "Stein's Curve." Literally at the moment of sunset, a westbound Rio Grande Freight suddenly "catches fire" with solar glint, as it negotiates "Stein's Curve", ... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

Pan view of ex-PRR N8 "cabin car" 23370 trailing an SCL boxcar southbound toward Baltimore. The white dot after the road number signified that the caboose had a frame of sufficient stre... (more)

Illustrating the steep grade and the mountainous scenery that gives Tehachapi its notoriety, a 69-car westbound Santa Fe freight drops to the valley floor and negotiates the horseshoe curve at Cal... (more)

At dusk, a 199 train accelerates westward out of Stockton after crossing SP's Valley Line. The conductor in the caboose has just picked up his orders at the tower.

The conductor is a nano-second away from receiving orders, as his train heads west on the Chicago Line in 1977.

With an SD40-2 / DDA40X / DDA40X / DDA40X / DDA40X / SD40-2 lash-up on the headend, and a cupola caboose on the rear, this piggyback train epitomizes the short, fast, high-priority trains for whic... (more)

A battered and rusted Conrail/NYC/CSX transfer caboose sits in Plymouth. Though cabooses (cabeese?) are often stored on this track, I'm not sure if this one is in active service. I'd certainly rec... (more)

Utah Railway wooden caboose No. 60 is pictured at Provo Yard on Dec. 12, 1976. It was built by Mount Vernon Car in 1924 and is similar in design to Union Pacific's CA-1 series.

A westbound hopper train rolls past the C&O coaling tower as it leaves Thurmond. Set designers for the movie Matewan have designated the coaling tower as part of the Stone Mountain Coal Co.