A pair of MoPac transfer cabooses, 13865 and 13079, bring up the rear of a northbound yard job returning to Yard Center. Tom Golden photo.

Nearly 20 years after the railroad's demise, the Monongahela Railway's caboose #901 displays its faded paint in West Brownsville Yard.

A Mennonite family watches as Strasburg RR SW8 8618 and caboose head back to Strasburg after dropping a tank car at the NS interchange at Paradise

On a hazy January afternoon in 1985, Western Pacific caboose 455 awaits a return to Salt Lake City on the PVSC local. Built for the WP in 1950 by International Car, the 455 had two months left to ... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

D&M Caboose 209 and RS-2 468 await their next assignment in Bay City, MI. From my slide collection by Don Elliott.

A rare Union Pacific CA-11 caboose takes the weekend off in the former D&RGW Fourth South Yard in Salt Lake City. The 25889 was built new by International Car for the UP in July 1979. Note how the... (more)

The caboose of BNSF's fire fighting train.

ONT 121 sits on light rail over 600 kilometres from home rails at Puddicombe Farms and Estate.

An old caboose sits at the Decatur yard. From time to time it is still pressed into service for yard work.

There's gold in them thar hoppers! Rio Grande's Tintic Local has 10 loads of gold ore, retrieved at the Burgin Mine in the East Tintic Mountains. The symmetrical peaks of 11,929 ft. Mt. Nebo mark ... (more)

With one of Cotton Belt's large cabooses once upon a time to accommodate passengers, a branch line local with a Baldwin switcher and a full crew is returning to the mainline -- Malden.

The conductor of a Rio Grande freight offers the photographer a friendly wave as his train heads east through the Green River Desert near Thompson. Afternoon storms are brewing over the La Salle M... (more)

A Rio Grande SW1200 switches a pair of iconic cabooses in D&RGW's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake.

This ex Conrail caboose was recently repainted by the S&NC into a scheme very similar to one used by the D&H. It was rolled out on the day of the Sanford Lake Branch inspection train. This caboose... (more)