The eight unit locomotive dead head has a bay window van (caboose) well in hand with a trailing GP-30 as an added treat.

Handing up the orders to the rear end

Real railroaders head west again with a big ole mess of empties.

CSX Marion yard job crosses the NS diamonds and by AC tower, a former Erie tower, with its Erie painted caboose, exx ERIE/EL C347 ex CR/NYC 21114, CR Class N7D, built 12/53

The daily Houghton-Nestoria turn has finished for the day and the crew has left for the motel. In warmer months the conductor would sometimes spend the night on this caboose and I would visit him... (more)

Southern Pacific cabooses sit awaiting the call to duty at southern California's Taylor Yard, with Cotton Belt wide-vision caboose 13 sticking out like a sore thumb among all the bay-window caboos... (more)

Southern Pacific's only bright red caboose, C-40-6 class number 1741, is seen here on the rear of SP 9181 west as it descends the crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains at Woodford, not far from the ... (more)

Union Pacific CA-10 caboose 25730 ducks into the first of the two tunnels at Alray on Cajon Pass as UP 3553 heads east out of southern California.

A UP CA-7 caboose trails an eastbound as it acsends California's Cajon Pass.

A UP CA-7 caboose brings up the rear as SP 8494 circumnavigates Tehachapi Loop as it heads downhill to a foggy Bakersfield, CA.

This old BN extended window caboose luckily still rides the rails on the Whitefish to Kalispell local.

Even though this SOO caboose is rusted really bad, it's still nice to see on the end of a train in the year 2004.

The way they used to run railroads: train orders, towers and cabooses.