The conductor steps outside of his office for a breath of fresh autumn air while stationary in the westward siding.

By the mid-1980s, most cabooses on the D&RGW were living on borrowed time. Caboose 01489 was spotted in fresh paint near Provo on June 20, 1984. It was originally constructed by the Rio Grande at ... (more)

Interesting caboose I came across while chasing the Fort Worth & Western Dublin turn. The owner duplicated an ATSF HO scale caboose to this one. Either a BN or RI caboose at one time before it was... (more)

Rio Grande caboose 01514 follows train #248 through Riverton, Utah on its eastward journey to Pueblo, Colorado.

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

One of the last holdouts for cabooses in the Salt Lake City pool was the weekday only 'Sandy Local' that ran between North Yard and Draper on the Provo Subdivision (now UTA TRAX). Here the freshly... (more)

After the show. Another Nevada Northern Photo Shoot weekend is in the books. The last train has returned, most of the photographers have said their goodbyes, and the crews are in the proc... (more)

My wife is checking out the caboose at the new Frisco rail museum.

June 25, 1989 must have been my lucky day. Not only did have the opportunity to see and photograph Union Pacific's Geneva - Comstock ore train, but it would pass my vantage point with not one but ... (more)

Union Pacific's LUF51 (Provo-SLC) local rambles west on Rio Grande rails through the Jordan Narrows.

Montreal Maine & Atlantic #2 works upgrade on the Moosehead Subdivision near the Quebec/Maine border on a cold January morning.

Brakenman Nathaniel (Sarge) Preston waves as Southern caboose X584 passes by on the Norfolk Southern Sanford Local near Gulf, NC. Not too long after this picture was taken cabooses would become a... (more)

A caboose hop behind a pair of GP50s rolls north while a short switch job and track crew are in the distance.

A small park is adjacent to the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum where these signals of railroading past are on display along with an old caboose, SP 2009.

An old caboose at the Pueblo Railway Museum.