3078 and horse head slug friends 924 and 929 act as pushers bringing up the rear end of a ballast train.

Oakdale Tennessee was a division point of the second and third districts of the Southern now NS CNO&TP. Here we find the conductor of a northbound ballast train about to board his caboose.

The dispatcher crosses over a Santa Fe eastbound at Sandcut from Track Two to Track One. As soon as the SP's conductor is finished with his roll-by, the SP will proceed down the hill into Bakersfi... (more)

Conrail Class N-21 caboose No. 21243 brings up the rear of a westbound manifest east of Newport, in the beautiful Juniata River Valley. Conrail ordered 113 N-21s from the Fruit Growers Express Co... (more)

At sunset, a bay window caboose punctuates the end of an eastbound Western Pacific manifest.

One of the Rio Grande's hot piggyback trains kicks up a little snow passing the Provo passenger station on Jan. 24, 1976.

One of Santa Fe's ubiquitous cupola cabooses brings up the rear and of an eastbound at tunnel 2.

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

Allentown & Auburn No. 206 is moooooving along past the cows not far from the A&A's shop in Topton, Pa.

Penned in at Horse Shoe Curve, Pennsy Pacific no. 1361 observes a Conrail freight descend eastbound around the famous curve. CR caboose 21621 is of New York Central heritage, which just does not f... (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.

With the conductor manning the rear movements, NBSR 6319 does a reverse movement back down into Saint John from Renforth, New Brunswick, where it will back up to Harbour Station to pick up more pa... (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)