On display at the Hamlet Station is Seaboard Air Line SDP35 1114, one of only 35 of these locomotives built. The EMD SDP35 is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-M... (more)

Trackside Tacos. Maine Central caboose 658, now repurposed as Trackside Tacos in North Canaan, CT.

Better Days. While looking structurally sound, close inspection shows lots of needs to refurbish this late era D&RGW caboose. This was one of several cabooses in the yard, and I understand ... (more)

Chippewa Falls Yard Roundhouse and Turntable with Caboose of arriving train

IMHO the perfect southern shortline cabin car. I love that baggage door, so handy for company material etc. On this crisp autumn morning this car will add punctuation to one of two trains headin... (more)

Through the early morning mist a former N&W Caboose serves as a shoving platform between yards in Detroit. Here the conductor directs an Early Morning move from Oakwood to River Rouge Yard through... (more)

Classic caboose

Classic caboose

See Tracks? Think Caboose - The DRR has a beautifully maintained bay window caboose. It is seen parked on the north leg of the Farmingdale wye (recently completed in 2023) near the Southa... (more)

Engineering van 420998 hitches a ride west to Kenora, Ontario to be used to fight forest fires in the area. Mid morning fog rolls in off Lake Superior.

Maybe more than a caboose at times as evidenced by what appears to be. an air conditioner on the roof. Locomotives didn't have them. Maybe those wide springs on the trucks were for a softer ride... (more)

A former Notfolk & Western caboose sits away from home rails where the now abandoned Southern Railway and Carolina & Northwestern once crossed in York, Souoth Carolina.

Back in the day it was as Ryan Ballard said "A friendly wave and a hearty hi yo silver" and we moved on the next railroad as we usually had little time and less money. I wish I had spen... (more)

An old UP caboose sits WTRJ yard in Wichita Falls Texas.

Workers are on a Kasgro Rail caboose as a CSX train shoves out of Cayce Yard in South Carolina on February 4, 2025.