Abandoned far from home. These two ex Missouri Pacific cabooses were purchased several decades ago by a local contractor who wanted to use them as office space. The plan fell through after it wa... (more)

N&W caboose No. 518575 was trailing a southbound empty hopper train at Riverton Junction in Front Royal, VA on October 13, 1987.

Former Lake Erie, Franklin, and Clairion caboose rests in B&O, PRR, and P&LE stronghold of Mahoningtown.

The last train left Rhyolite, Nevada in 1914. Ninety-seven years later, the remains of a wood caboose sit across from the former train station in this ghost town. The city only lasted about fiftee... (more)

An early spring snow storm dropped a few inches of wet snow on Cass over the weekend.

Chesapeake Western caboose No. 1 trails a local freight as it makes it way west at Weyers Cave, VA on April 21, 1980.

Taking orders

Still in the colors of its original owner, Burlington Northern wide-vision caboose 10117 brings up the rear of a BN freight departing Auburn, Washington, on September 17, 1979. Constructed a mere... (more)

Union Pacific bay-window caboose 24515, photographed in Modesto, California, was originally Rock Island 17097. These cars were built by ICC in 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971 for Union Pacific and lea... (more)

A "Kodachrome" caboose brings up the end of a westbound under what appears to be the baleful gaze of a giant tan blob monster, in reality a sandstone rock weathered by countless generations of win... (more)

A short train for the U.S. Silica plant near Berkeley Springs heads down the branch, caboose first.

Christmas comes to the Pokey. Santa steps out of his special Christmas caboose to welcome everyone aboard.

Setting of the train orders by the train order operator. The Caboose serves as office.

Often difficult to catch on film, the elusive Third La Mirada job backs onto the San Diego subdivision after dropping several cars off in the Irvine Industrial Complex. Some good Samaritan is try... (more)