Now I know all there is to know about Frisco cabeese! Good story and classy piece of equipment - so much more than a rear-end device. They were a great way to travel. Over the road delays increased appreciably after the rear-end crew was removed as, when a train was stopped, you had a man walking ahead toward the problem as well as back from the head-end.
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Makes me yearn for the days when the caboose was still used. I grew up right beside the tracks and I remember as a young boy in the early 1960's when a train would stop in front of the house and I would go and ask the conductor if I could come aboard and then back then they would let me climb aboard, even a locomotive. Nowadays the engineer or conductor would lose their job for pulling a stunt like that. They had no clue how they were shaping a young boy's lifelong love of trains.
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Now I know all there is about Frisco cabeese? Good story and fine image of a classy way to travel, slack action notwithstanding. As UP conductors used to tell the head end once the consist was underway, "You got 'em wiggling."
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