NW cabooses 555089 and 518585 on the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas Division at Roderfield, West Virginia. May 10, 1988. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Caboose in Cambridge On the early morning of July 29th, 2024, the Northside Work Extra shoved through Cambridge with a string of MassDOT ballast cars in tow.

Otto found this classic crummy at the Vincennes Indiana B&O yard in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Local Freight at Boonton Station. Dover and Delaware River (DD) train RP-2 is seen running through the former station in Boonton, NJ with NJ Transit GP40PH-2 no. 4102 and Dover & Rockaw... (more)

A keystone train flies east through Christiana with the Veterans Sprinter leading the way.

ICG, Illinois Central Gulf 199335 caboose, southbound at Effingham, Illinois. September 5, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

CR, Conrail caboose 23548, bring up the rear on westbound trailer train, on the Conrail Pittsburgh mainline at Manor, Pennsylvania. January 28, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

For some times, this diminutive 25 ton end-cab critter sat on a stotage track beside the former Piedmont & Northern depot in Belmont, North Carolina. The little guy was built in 1950 by General El... (more)

MP, Missouri Pacific caboose 13067, gives a friendly wave as he passes GE70 tonner on the interchange with P&NW, Prescott and Northwestern 24 at Prescott, Arkansas. July 27, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff ... (more)

MILW, Milwaukee Road caboose 992118 brings up the rear of a northbound Milwaukee Road TOFC, as Southern Railway, SOU GP30 2624 flying white extra flags waits its turn to cross the Ohio River to Lo... (more)

MGA, Monongahela Railway caboose 68, bringing up the rear on street trackage at West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. June 15, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

On a pleasant spring day this short intermodal, running westbound at this point, has gone in the hole for an eastbound coal train. I can imagine the one gentleman is explaining to the other that ... (more)

A wooden cupola caboose, which might be either Tidewater Southern 305 or Western Pacific 623 (or possibly even an entirely different caboose) is undergoing restoration at the Modesto & Empire Trac... (more)

A Crummy Shot. It was an ordinary sight 17 years ago today, June 26, 2007, when Norfolk Southern H37 found an opening in between SEPTA regional trains to return to Chrysler Yard in Newark, ... (more)

Amtrak 72 passing by the old Southern depot in Thomasville