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.

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville Turn departs Markle, Pennsylvania with a train of 50-ton twin hoppers. By this time, these cars were limited to intra-line service.

Rio Grande caboose No. 01425 trails the Potash Local westbound over Thompson Hill just east of Thompson, Utah, in July 1984. The car has recently had its side windows skillfully plugged by the car... (more)

ATSF 999243 brings up the rear of a string of intermodal trailers as they pass under the semaphores at Joliet. Tom Golden photo.

CP 434826, an older repainted steel caboose brings up the rear of an eastbound freight cruising along the bank of the Thompson River east of Spences Bridge, BC. The freight featured a group of wor... (more)

Under restoration in the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's shop is Wabash Railroad caboose #2543. According to the FWRHS website, the caboose was built in the early 1900s and served the Wa... (more)

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 'engineers school' freight begins the climb toward Cumbres on a frosty autumn morning near Dalton,NM.

Susquehanna train NTV-4 negotiates the shelf next to the Delaware River at Basket, New York. Apparently management has applied a belt and suspenders approach to monitoring the rear of the train, a... (more)

SOO caboose no. 87 brings up the rear of an eastbound freight headed for Milwaukee as it passes through Pewaukee, WI just of the town. Soo Line was a late adopter to FREDs, which allowed an extend... (more)

The 2nd La Mirada shoves through Fullerton enroute to the Kimberly Clark Spur with a BN caboose leading the way.

The Soo Line acquisition of the Milwaukee Road in 1985 led to a lot of shuffling of equipment. The Soo had a pretty traditional reputation and when they unexpectedly ended up with the Milwaukee it... (more)

A Conrail TV (trailer van) train makes good time heading east after servicing at Cleveland, OH's Collinwood yard. The former NYC bay window caboose displays perhaps the smallest bay windows applie... (more)

NP caboose no. 10780 has reached the end of the line at Duluth, MN in September 1970. It appears it had a slight incident involving the rear steps, enough no doubt to cause its retirement since it... (more)

Santa Fe extended vision caboose brings up the rear of an intermodal freight at MP 233 from Chicago in Ft. Madison, IA on Santa Fe's Chicago-Kansas City speedway.