New York & Long Branch conductor Richard Morgan fills out his timesheet in his caboose at the end of a long day on the job. In reality, model Richard Morgan poses with original NY&LB paperwork... (more)

Almost done its run. Led by FL9 OEXX 484, the Orford Express is almost done its run as it approaches the town of Magog where it will tie up until the evening run.

Caboose on the rear. The Prairie Dog Central's 11 AM departure is getting ready to leave the station at Inkster Junction with their ex-CP caboose bringing up the rear. Steam is seen up fron... (more)

If there was a way to punctuate my experience on the Pocahontas District on the last day of 2015, this was the perfect way to do so. Here, an NS manifest desperately climbs up the grade at Kyle, W... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio “wagontop” caboose C-2478 was one of a hundred built by B&O’s Keyser, West Virginia shops in 1941. After a thirty-nine year career, it was retired, and received a full restoration... (more)

Chesapeake and Ohio caboose #3260 is spotted with a fresh coat of paint in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard in Staunton, Virginia.

During a brilliant sunset, a Nevada Northern freight heads west across Steptoe Creek Fill near East Ely, Nevada, on February 2, 2003. In the warm, cozy cupola of wooden caboose No. 5, two crew mem... (more)

"The Caboose"

Railroad oddities are always a good find and the city of Whittier, AK did not disappoint when it came to this rare Easter Egg. The following description is found on... (more)

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 ove... (more)

This one of a kind B&O painted caboose is here today as a result of the hard work and forward thinking of B&O caboose historian Dwight Jones. He came up with the idea in 2002 to take an existing ... (more)

Short and Fast

Just two days before Christmas 1978, a hot Santa Fe intermodal train climbs the eastern grade of the Tehachapi Mountain crossing as it approaches Monolith. This train... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a southbound Union Railroad loaded ore train is URR caboose number 101 at milepost 2 along the North Bessemer Branch in Penn Hills, PA.

Interlocking rings help to visually convey the message of how important the B&O railroad was to the growing nation when it began construction in 1828. This nation's first railroad would help lead... (more)

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)

The Cle Elum local from Yakima makes a back up move between Cle Elum and Ronald, and is about to do a bit of street running in Roslyn, WA en route. Plenty of help on the caboose will help make thi... (more)