Rio Grande narrow gauge caboose No. 0579 sits in the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s shop building in Antonito, Colorado, on June 6, 2018. In the foreground is a passenger truc... (more)

Lancaster and Chester 705 was one piece of L&C rolling stock I had never got on digital before. It moved around every so often. but was usually out of view. Then in 2015 it was in the open on a li... (more)

This freshly repainted Conrail N20 caboose made its long-awaited debut on ME-2 after being repainted in Metuchen Yard. CR 22137 had been a tagged, rusting eyesore for a decade or more. For years t... (more)

A Seaboard Air Line locomotive and caboose have been on display in Hamlet, North Carolina for more than thirty years. I made this photograph at Seaboard Days on October 26, 2013.

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Perhaps one of the hottest trains I ever witnessed, this UP hotshot led by an SD45 & DD35A and consisting of one seemingly very important mechanical reefer and a Cupola caboose, rolls onto UP trac... (more)

Photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection taken sometime in the mid to late 1950's.

A fresh coat of Heritage III paint makes BN Caboose 2408 shine in the sun as it sits in a yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

It is rare to find a working caboose these days, and even more rare that it is clear of graffiti. This UPP 430 Bay Window Caboose is used as a shoving platform when the local delivers to customer... (more)

Retired but reflecting the look of a earlier era.

BN 10072 brings up the rear of an eastbound TOFC hotshot rolling by MILW Pigs Eye Yard in July 1972. Rocky lives on the former GN caboose at this point on a train led by BN 6423, former NP 3623. N... (more)

Cute. No frills. I bet this thing was a rolling sauna in the Mississippi/Alabama summers. I've always wondered what the curved handrail on the side of cabooses is for. I've never seen it used f... (more)

Former UP Caboose in downtown Sachse

Grand Trunk Western caboose trails a northbound GTW freight at McCook, Illinois, in August 1984. The train just crossed the Santa Fe main line, and in the background, a southbound Indiana Harbor B... (more)

CN 79657, a Pt. St. Charles built caboose, brings up the rear of a sulfur train stopped at Boston Bar, BC for a crew change. CN built a large quantity of these cabooses in the first half of the 19... (more)

In downtown Flatonia, a small railroad museum keeps a nicely restored caboose and interlocking tower on display.