In the early years of the BN merger, Wenatchee, WA was a healthy source of originating traffic requiring both branchline and mainline locals. It's GN history lived into the mid-70s with some GN pa... (more)

A Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on an eastbound manifest at Cajon Junction, California. The colorful consist includes a company-service tank car.

Honorably retired. Clinchfield dolled up some their old cabs and sold them at auction. To me that shows something so lacking in the world today, a touch of class. What a crummy Christmas gift t... (more)

The Minneapolis skyline make a great background in the morning light.

A gaggle of former Milwaukee Road Cabeese rust away on St. Feriole island, near a grain facility in Prairie du Chien.

A very rare sight in 2020, A caboose bringing up the rear of a revenue freight train. Here is an Ex-N&W caboose on the end of NS 377. I have been chasing trains for close to 7 years now, and this ... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 01416 was built by the railroad’s Burnham Shops (in Denver, the downtown of which is visible to the caboose’s right) in August 1941. Originally, these cars... (more)

A Classic Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on a northbound Santa Fe train at Ilfeld, New Mexico.... (more)

Comet Neowise is the best comet in 20 years. It is visible even with urban light pollution so I had to try to get caboose photo.

Colorado & Southern? Nope; it is ex DRGW 1523 built in 1976. I can find very little about why with was caboose was painted in a odd purple C&S scheme. I did find it was in Clovis, New Me... (more)

After shooting a southbound Santa Fe train on the bridge at Larkspur, Colorado, we dropped down to roa... (more)

Southern Pacific’s Bicentennial caboose, SP 1776, brings up the rear of a westbound freight at Hiland, the summit of SP’s crossing of Cajon Pass. Built in December 1966, this car was repainte... (more)

Bringing up the markers on an eastbound Southern Pacific hauler, heading from Los Angeles' Taylor Yard to West Colton Yard, is C-40-1 caboose 1020. This caboose was built at the SP's Los Angeles ... (more)

As out-of-place as Susquehanna’s antiquated Alcos looked on a stack train, the caboose on the other end was just as much a rarity. By this time, waycars were almost unheard of on intermodal trai... (more)

A Monongahela caboose punctuates a coal drag that has just cleared the White Cottage tunnel on the Waynesburg Southern branch. By this time, cabooses were quickly becoming a rarity.