Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 01432 trails a short train at the Pueblo Railway Museum at Pueblo, Colorado, on August 25, 2021. This all steel cupola car was built by the Rio Grande’s capab... (more)

A caboose brings up the rear of WHFF as they enter Tamaqua.

A shoving platform is leading as The Pointe St-Charles Switcher shoves towards Track 29 to pick up some grain cars.

Conductor Mike Necessary stands on the platform of the caboose of Norfolk Southern train U47 as the train backs out of the west end of Andover Yard at Andover, Virginia. The empty coal train is m... (more)

NP 1264 caboose sits by the parking lot of the Minnesota Transportation Museum.

A pair of Norfolk Southern cabooses wait for their next assignments as shoving platforms in downtown Appalachia, Virginia.

Indiana Harbor Belt caboose #31 is performing its shoving duties into Blue Island Yard for the 515 Job this afternoon. During better years, the stripes on this veteran caboose were a much nicer sh... (more)

The perfect little Santa Fe train along the Des Plaines River in Joliet. ATSF 999784, six covered hoppers from Greif Inc in Lockport and GP50 3167 approach the yard as the Y JOL101. From this angl... (more)

Several auto racks and a Rio Grande caboose punctuate a westbound DODX train under grim skies at Soldier Summit, Utah.

Westbound tonnage punctuated by a Rio Grande caboose rolls across the flats at Una, Colorado.

The Corona Local's Santa Fe caboose leads a shove up the spur at Casa Blanca in Riverside. Unfortunately this caboose would be destroyed in a collision with a truck a few months later.

A crewmember is riding the Pointe St-Charles Switchers shoving platform as the train enters the yard.

It was a fitting but unusually chilly night in North Carolina during the Polar Express runs this season. Thankfully, there was plenty of coal in the bucket for the stove. The Conductor and NCTM Tr... (more)

An ex-BN caboose leads the shove on the 2nd La Mirada as the train clears up at Orangethorpe before proceeding up the KC Lead.

Santa Fe All the Way

There’s no mistaking whose train is climbing the Tehachapi grade near Cable, California. No less than five cabooses punctuate a manifest consisting of mostly... (more)