That caboose is pristine, as is the SW14 up front, but biz car 101 - perhaps fresh from being refurbished - is the star. Built by Pullman in 1912, I believe it was renumbered a couple times, then... (more)

BNSF shoving platform BN 12568, wearing a neatly applied if unauthorized graffiti scheme (complete with clear and legible reporting mark and roadnumber), brings up the rear of local R-CAL0162-28 a... (more)

Cleanup is underway after a Missouri Pacific coal train has derailed on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.

Per wiki, the East Boston Greenway lies on a right of way Conrail abandoned between Lovell Street and the East Boston docks in the 1970s. Residents tried to clean up the tracks for use as a greenb... (more)

Bringing up the markers … er … End of Train Device on a Metrolink train carrying new rails to Ventura County is SCAX caboose MW01. This car, Metrolink’s only caboose, was built by Illinois ... (more)

The beat up caboose and the new hoppers at the tail end of the Pointe St-Charles switcher provide quite a difference in appearance as they enter the yard with grain empties.

After lifting a long string of grain empties from track PC-27, the Pointe St-Charles Switcher is shoving back to its namesake yard, with a beat up caboose leading. The building at left dates to 18... (more)

From his cupola seat in a wide-vision caboose, the conductor of a Chesapeake & Ohio hopper train gives a friendly wave to a few photographers. He is passing westward through Crozet, Virginia.

Turntable demonstration at the B&O Railroad Museum

A BN caboose brings up the rear of the 2nd La Mirada at Fullerton.

New England Central caboose 4044 is used as a shoving platform when the wood chip train backs up or "shoves" from Fonda Jct to the loading facility in Swanton.

The Lehigh Valley repainted caboose 95085 into a Bicentennial scheme and renumbered it 1776. On January 9, 1976, the Winter sun glints off caboose 1776 as it brings up the rear of NE-1 at the loc... (more)

Norfolk & Western Caboose 555042 sits at Auville Yard in Iaeger, WV waiting for the next mine run.

The caboose of a southbound Chehalis and Western train crosses an old Milwaukee Road railroad bridge in Tacoma, Washington.

Expressway for Industry

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line served industries in and between its namesake cities starting in 1903. The Shore Line supplied a lot of traffic to the Clev... (more)