A sporty ride. The reflections of the impending sunrise are already visible in the windows of Caboose #3 as the crew of a Sumpter Valley freight protects the rear of their train while it ba... (more)

One of MRL's unique cupola cabeese hangs onto the rear of a Jimbo Local that is working East over the 10th Sub picking up old ties.

"Nordhouse Dunes is part of the Ludington Dune Ecosystem, The Nordhouse Dunes are interspersed with woody vegetation such as juniper, jack pine and hemlock", and a caboose. Thanks to Fritz Milh... (more)

A Family Lines caboose brings up the rear of a "funeral train" full of former L&N and SCL first-generation diesels. These locomotives are headed west on the IHB and are most likely boun... (more)

Erie N3 caboose C140, brings up the rear of the first trip of the day, on the Black River & Western.

Cab MGA 903 punctuates the rear of MGA-CR 6568 North east of Waynesburg. Cabooses were typically used only on trains that required reverse moves due to "layer loading", the unique practi... (more)

A new addition to the Avery County Museum, ET&WNC caboose 505. After being used as a fishing cabin for many years it was decided that the relic's proper home would be next to the former Linville d... (more)

NS U47, occupying the Glamorgan Branch main line, pulls loads from Hood at Norton. U49 is waiting at Tacoma for U47 to complete its work so it can take an empty hopper train to Red River Coal at D... (more)

Desert Dawn. A Denver & Rio Grande Western Freight runs westbound out of Antonito, Colorado at sunrise on a chilly, October morning.

On the first day of 1974, Amtrak San Diegan #771 (San Diego CA to Los Angeles CA) departs Fullerton. Amtrak SDP40F 511 is the newest thing in this photograph, having been built by EMD in 1... (more)

The rear of the Delano Job enters Tamaqua Yard with 40 anthracite coal loads from Lehigh Natural Resources off the Greenwood Runner. These cars would be combined with another train and interchange... (more)

As two trains pass at speed the conductor performs a rollby inspection from the rear platform of an ex PRR cabin car on the former NYC Michigan Central Porter Branch. The Wabash 4th District and t... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight trailed by two cabooses slinks around the curves through the Badlands west of Sully Springs, North Dakota, on July 27, 1992.

CR 21313 an ex Conrail N21 Bay Window Caboose was released back into active service with Norfolk Southern. While that may not seem too interesting, the Caboose was refurbished and repainted into a... (more)

Bob Pace of Thistle, Utah purchased D&RGW caboose 01120 from the Rio Grande in 1960. It was built at D&RGW's Burnham Shops in Denver in 1924. The caboose became a local landmark along Hwy. 6 until... (more)