The Lehigh Valley repainted caboose 95085 into a Bicentennial scheme and renumbered it 1776. On January 9, 1976, the Winter sun glints off caboose 1776 as it brings up the rear of NE-1 at the loc... (more)

Norfolk & Western Caboose 555042 sits at Auville Yard in Iaeger, WV waiting for the next mine run.

The caboose of a southbound Chehalis and Western train crosses an old Milwaukee Road railroad bridge in Tacoma, Washington.

Expressway for Industry

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line served industries in and between its namesake cities starting in 1903. The Shore Line supplied a lot of traffic to the Clev... (more)

BNSF shoving platform BN 12568, wearing a neatly applied if unauthorized graffiti scheme (complete with clear and legible reporting mark and roadnumber), brings up the rear of local R-CAL0162-28 a... (more)

Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class c... (more)

Built nearby. Built by CN in their Pointe St-Charles shops nearby here (now demolished), CN 79834 is being shoved through the Pointe St-Charles Yard before this train heads towards the Port... (more)

I Love the Smell of Metal Grinding in the Morning

Viewed from the Dutch door, the rear end brakeman on a Rio Grande rail grinding train watches dome-observation Silver Sky p... (more)

A Grande Gold caboose brings up the markers on an old-school Rio Grande camp train moving west through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

Beautiful day throws sun on this Peoria & Eastern Caboose. An Old Chessie cab now serves the Vermilion Valley Rail Road. A tribute to the former line that serves this site at Flex-N-Gate, Covingto... (more)

A wave from a caboose. Once a common sight, a wave from a caboose is not something you'll see often these days. With the Pointe St-Charles switcher in Montreal now assigned a caboose for lo... (more)

Followed Up with a Six-Pack A half-dozen Rio Grande cabooses bring up the markers of an eastbound bare table train in the sag between Spruce and Palmer Lake, Colorado.

A westbound Rio Grande manifest follows the Salt Creek toward the Colorado River at Mack, Colorado. At this point, the D&... (more)

A caboose and generator car brings up the rear od a Great Smoky Mountains Railroad train.

BN 10024 brings up the rear of a westbound manifest. An unusual catch in 2020.