A former Algoma Central caboose that is used for a long shove move near Hayward rests until its next call to action.

A Milwaukee rib side caboose rolls on the the IHB crossing the Santa Fe mainline at McCook. The caboose is pretty weather beaten and also shows signs of impact from things being thrown at it. Now ... (more)

Snow is falling at the east end of Montana Rail Link’s Laurel Yard as MRL SD40-2XR No. 259 is teamed up with Remote Control Caboose No. 1103 to switch cars. These RCC cars contain all of the equ... (more)

Southern bay window caboose X738 brings up the rear of a train at Jefferson City, TN || January 1984

After three years of above average precipitation, by 1986 Utah's Great Salt Lake was at a record high level. With SP's causeway out of service, the UP granted the SP trackage rights to detour trai... (more)

CN Rail Mainline Caboose #78102 Modified for International Service. (USA)

Two types of horsepower converge at Palmer Lake in 1990. This coal has just come to a stop as the helpers prepare to cutoff and runaround the caboose which will be added back on to the coal train.

Long before buffer cars were as common as they are today, a pair of Rio Grande GP9s move a tank car of nitric acid (bracketed by mill gondolas) for Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork. D&RGW train #... (more)

The conductor of a Rio Grande freight offers the photographer a friendly wave as his train heads east through the Green River Desert near Thompson. Afternoon storms are brewing over the La Salle M... (more)

Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Here, Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 are leading Soo Line train No. 430 and is meeting train No. 431’s passing caboose at Green Island, Iowa. ... (more)

The Elgin Joliet & Eastern mainline curve is visible on the north side of this eastbound manifest.

The caboose of a northbound C&NW freight gets a flyover from a United Airlines 747 landing at O’Hare International Airport at Bryn Mawr, Illinois, in August 1984.

Heading for Duluth
A short Soo Line transfer freight approaches Grassy Point Drawbridge at Superior, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. Either the conductor is really cold, or the dampers ... (more)

A westbound SP vehicle train with a new caboose passes a slide fence at Floriston.

On a busy afternoon in Opelika, a local resident finally gets across the tracks on her way home from shopping downtown. Right to left are train 215, an SCL run-through from Hamlet with a WP caboos... (more)