After photographing an eastbound Conrail train entering Reading on the Lebanon Valley line, we crossed 4th street to shoot ... (more)

An unusual find at the Burnham yard in 1977.

The Portland Terminal Railroad was once an interurban railroad that had, since the mid-1950s, been owned 50/50 by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads to handle the remaining freight b... (more)

“Just When Is My Birthday?”
NW 518639 (class C-31P) cupola caboose was photographed at Vardo Yard (Hagerstown, MD) on 06/27/1987. Despite a build date of “12-69” stenciled on the... (more)

Norfolk Southern "mine run" U47 is backing their train on the former Interstate Railroad toward the coal loading facility at Wentz, Virginia with a caboose as a shoving platform. The tra... (more)

Recently repainted Nickel Plate caboose 765 is on display at the Huntsville Depot Museum in Huntsville, Alabama. Before repainting, the caboose was in a Norfolk and Western scheme.

“Rode Hard and Put Away Wet”
Seen here at Conklin Yard on 09/14/1987, D&H 35797 (D&H class NE6) extended vision caboose was built by International Car Co. in 10/1971 as RDG 94116.more)

CNW caboose 10366 brings up the rear of a westbound train at the interlocking at St. Francis in May of 1985. The train came off the Old Line, the ex passenger mainline thru SE Wisconsin. St. Franc... (more)

A former New York Central bay window caboose rolls westward under the Indy Blvd nine span steel bridge, on the ex Michigan Central line, in 1979.

“Sans Dome”
Skirting past the rock face at Relay is B&O bay window caboose 903729, bringing up the rear of an Old Main Line coal drag destined for the Curtis Bay piers. Still in (now... (more)

Tri-State Trifecta: Three of the Tri-State Railway Historical Society's Cabooses pause for a photo stop amidst some emerging fall foliage along the Rockaway River. Raritan River Railroad... (more)

“Pine Tree Detour”
Operating on B&O’s Philadelphia Sub, a Maine Central extended vision caboose brings up the rear of D&H POPY at North Point, the crew change point at the east end... (more)

The brakeman is seen at the road crossing as he works and communicates with other crewmembers during a lengthy and complicated switching move that involved the placement of the caboose in the trai... (more)

On a gray winter day - back when most everything in Georgia south of Atlanta was SCL or Southern - a southbound freight departed Albany. The big roads are mostly gone from this territory today, h... (more)

The Waynesburg Southern branch of the Monongahela Railway, opened in 1968, did not have stations or lineside structures normally associated with lines of earlier vintages. It did have block limits... (more)