4 cabooses (or is it cabeese?) bring up the rear of a southbound Soo Line train in Kenosha county. I'm not sure if they were being re-assigned or being put into storage.

Here we see a shot of a unique piece of UP equipment - the 'Snow Bus' caboose. The UP uses UP25809, a former bay window caboose that has had its end porches enclosed to create greater room on the ... (more)

Streator was an important interchange location between Santa Fe and Conrail (New York Central/Penn Central earlier) with run-through trains operating after a connecting track was constructed by 19... (more)

On Conrail’s siding at Streator, Illinois, two trains meet in April 1984. Streator was an important interchange location between Santa Fe and Conrail (New York Central/Penn Central earlier) with... (more)

Tucked Away

Missouri Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3097 sits at the engine facility of the small yard in Chester, Illinois, in September 1984, with two cabooses keeping it company.

A nicely matched quartet of N&W cabooses await their next assignment at Sandusky, OH on a typically moist May day in 1981. My recollection of living in Ohio was one week of nice weather in May an... (more)

Two RDC’s of BCR’s northbound Train 1 are tucked in the siding at Mons, B.C. to allow a southbound freight headed for North Vancouver to pass by, June 24, 1975.

Extra 131 east rolls by a westbound extra at Beverly, WA on August 27, 1978. About a year and a half before Milwaukee's transcontinental demise, the railroad was fairly busy with about 6 trains a ... (more)

Two CN-painted GP38-2s, from the IC and GTW, take CN R902 back towards Champaign Yard, having spent the past few hours switching the local industries on the spur, which required a caboose for the ... (more)

BN 1977 and caboose BN 12353 serve as local power at Rochelle on a snowless December 28, 1995. BN 1977 began life in June 1956 as Spokane, Portland & Seattle 152. The BNSF merger was 3 months old ... (more)

Little did I know in early June 1974 when I made my first brief visit to Wenatchee and caught these cabooses, all former GN except BN 10523, that nearly 40 years later I would retire to this commu... (more)

The Little Green Caboose?

Bringing up the end of a local, Burlington Northern caboose 10345 was formerly Chicago Burlington & Quincy 13575. This waycar (which is what the &qu... (more)

Frisco caboose 1260 trails behind SLSF 866 on an eastbound for St Louis along the parallel Missouri Pacific near Eureka.