CNW caboose #10907 and a mate bring up the rear of a westbound freight passing thru Sussex, WI in December of 1984.

A crew member gives a wave from the cupola as a westbound freight kicks up snow after crossing the main grade crossing in Deroche, BC. Snow is not uncommon in the Fraser Valley, but normally does ... (more)

Companion photo to 600657 at CK Tower in Winona, MN. A SOO and a MILW caboose cross the CNW in July of 1987.

I was fortunate to visit the Cisco bridge prior to its fire. Here a CP train heads east under the CN bridge after crossing the Fraser River on its own bridge. The CN Cisco bridge suffered a fire a... (more)

A CN transfer freight crosses the Fraser River on the BN-CN-BC Hydro bridge in the shadows of the Pattulo highway bridge at New Westminster, BC. This critical bridge has been a victim of river tra... (more)

The CNW-BN diamond is dominated for a few minutes by BN with westbound BN 7218 meeting an eastbound stack train in downtown Rochelle. Meantime, BN 1977 and its caboose have finished some switching... (more)

A Conrail N7B caboose brings up the end of an eastbound train passing Banks tower. Enola yard and eight hours of rest are only about five miles away.

Burlington Northern’s turn to Climax, Colorado, has returned to its base of Leadville, and the crew is putting the caboose over to the roundhouse before spotting the two cars over on the interch... (more)

The caboose end of an SP westbound heads for tunnel 2 as SP 8300 West waits in Bealville siding to proceed downhill toward Bakersfield. The 8300 has another westbound waiting at Allard, right behi... (more)

The Milwaukee Road had 2 extended vision cabooses and 1 of them rests in the yard in Green Bay, WI.

Cabooses are a rare sight these days, except on local runs where they are often used for shoving duty. This old Conrail/NYC unit has been in service here in Murfreesboro for many years now.

By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers... (more)

CN mainline cabooses lineup in Moncton's Gordon yard, September 03, 1988.

Gone Daddy Gone

On October 10, 1980, Santa Fe waycar 999009, the tenth caboose rebuilt into the railroad's 283 Ce-1 class cabooses in 1966, is about to duck into the first tunnel at ... (more)

So what do you call more than one caboose? A pair of the rest at the Soo Line's Shops Yard in June of 1983. The SOO kept their wood fleet around longer than most.