Wide Vision Pan

Tonnage is moving in both directions at Slope interlocking on Conrail’s ex-PRR main line in Altoona, Pennsylvania. While a westbound intermodal begins its climb t... (more)

A restored, original Erie caboose, built in 1941, sits on display at the Black River & Western Railroad in Rigoes, NJ. I believe the caboose is in service on the tourist line.

The Reading had twenty extended vision cabooses built by International Car Company in 1970 and 1971. When the railroad was dissolved as part of Conrail’s formation, they were equally divided bet... (more)

Two Early 1950’s Cabooses

Two Conrail cabooses of similar vintage but quite different designs are on the rear of a train at the former Reading yard in Rutherford, Pennsylvania. O... (more)

Recently restored Lehigh Valley port-hole caboose at Honesdale, PA, on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Stourbridge Line. This caboose resided in Riverside Park in Tunkhannock, Pa. for over 20 years. ... (more)

The classic Red Caboose is still in service on the NS out of Battle Creek's Hinman Yard. Mostly used on B57 as a Shoving Platform for the Conductor, the caboose see's service along the line betwee... (more)

Big Rock was one of those places that existed virtually entirely for the railroad. I do not think there was any town to speak of, just lots of diesels and cabooses for mine runs.

Braving torrential rains, a former Delaware and Hudson caboose trails on a private charter of the Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad. Seemingly not phased by the weather, one brave soul sto... (more)

Red Caboose on Sherman Hill

In 1947, the Union Pacific started a program of repainting its cabooses into an Armour yellow scheme, and the red caboose was soon eradicated from the s... (more)

"The Floating EL Hack at Pier 66"

A former Erie Lackawanna Railroad caboose (also known to some as a "hack") sits on display at the Frying Pan; a former railroad float barge-tu... (more)

I have it on good authority that this is not the standard Union Pacific paint scheme for cabooses.

A former St. Louis & San Francisco (Frisco) bay-window caboose is assigned to Burlington Northern’s local out of Kelly Lake, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985. Frisco was merged into BN on November... (more)

The ski resort at Steamboat Springs, Colorado looms in the distance as eastbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 passes between a Sperry car and the depot.

Sure do miss the old yellow ones, but I won’t turn my nose up at any active caboose in this day and age! Engineering service white CP 420991 along with some colourfully graffiti’d OCS equipmen... (more)

Train graveyard of fallen flag equipment.