D13 shoves into the Finch Paper Spur on the Glens Falls Subdivision over Shermantown Rd, the crew protecting the shove aboard one of Canadian Pacific's cabooses often used on the locals for purpos... (more)

A surprise catch in the UP's North Yard in Denver was this bay window caboose, which is used for local runs as well as a 'snow bus', shuttling crews to trains in the mountains when heavy snow prev... (more)

SAVED FROM SCRAP!! The last of it's kind, in now displayed at the entrance of The Unicoi Tennessee Welcome Center. Clinchfield Railroad 1111 is a short body bay window caboose that once roamed the... (more)

Milwaukee Road bay window caboose, built in the railroad’s shops at Milwaukee, now sits on display near the Chamber of Commerce at Three Forks, Montana, on June 17, 2014.

GN 24 ft. caboose no. X592 basks in the gray skies of western Washington on April Fools Day, 1979. I have not been able to find any more info on the caboose, perhaps someone might know what happen... (more)

You don't see this every day! On a brisk fall morning, #493 hauls a load of wrapped-up passenger cars to their winter storage. A few box cars, a concessions car, and a caboose round out the consis... (more)

The city of Elko was born a railroad town. The Central Pacific and Western Pacific both laid tracks through the heart of downtown, but in the 1980s the tracks were moved outside of town. Luckily a... (more)

The crew of NS U40 with a light locomotive running long hood forward passes a caboose and two covered hoppers in downtown Appalachia, Virginia.

DWP caboose no. 53100 is a former New York Central bay window caboose acquired second hand as business increased in the 1980s. Shown here at their West Duluth yard.

Conrail Quality Pirates: A Conrail Shared Assets crew is seen on Conrail Caboose #22137 with a pirate flag flying on the side as it proceeds to head west through Lincoln Interlocking on th... (more)

DWP was experiencing traffic growth in the ealry 1980s and needed more cabooses. One example was a former GN St. Cloud shops caboose, DWP 53102, acquired from BN, shown at West Duluth, MN.

In the early years of the BN merger, Wenatchee, WA was a healthy source of originating traffic requiring both branchline and mainline locals. It's GN history lived into the mid-70s with some GN pa... (more)

A Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on an eastbound manifest at Cajon Junction, California. The colorful consist includes a company-service tank car.

CLC GP38-3 #3805 leads a train from Whitestone to Tate at Talking Rock, GA 10/6/20. The L&N "Hook and Eye" got its name from a switchback "hook" here, until a realignment. I ... (more)