Conrail took delivery of 113 N21-class cabooses in 1978. Built by FGE in Alexandria, Virginia, they were the only cabooses bought new by Conrail, and of course the last to be added to the roster, ... (more)

Cabooses are Acceptable

What the sign lacks in spelling and grammar is more than made up for in meaning and intensity. I wonder where he got that guard rail!

Passenger Service to Allentown, Pennsylvania?

A special move of a train of George Hart’s ex-reading passenger cars arrives in the former CNJ yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I d... (more)

Sunrise on the "Stump Dodger" With her conductor guarding the rear platform, a Sumpter Valley Freight backs to the McEwen Water Tank for servicing, just moments after sunrise. T... (more)

It's been a little over two years since the N&W-Southern merger. Former Southern MP15, 2351, is sporting a brand new paint job representing the "new" Norfolk Southern. The Southern caboo... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, Wide Vision Caboose no.30.

Napierville Junction caboose #40 brings up the rear of a short D&H local at Saratoga Springs, NY.

Switching the SP interchange at Magma Junction

CNW caboose 10936 brings up the rear of a freight at Clyman Junction, WI in January of 1975. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

SP 9234 West meets an eastbound shy of a crossover west of Indio, CA, on the Sunset Route. The westbound's conductor is out of sight to the right of the photo giving the eastbound a roll-by. As th... (more)

Wash me please! UP C30-7, 2472, sits at Wilco Yard awaiting the next call to duty. I imagine it got washed when it made it back to UP home rails. But for now, welcome to life in southern West Virg... (more)

CSX M772-11 shoot south down the main track through the town of Murfreesboro, TN with a line of cars heading for the east siding track where the local job will drop the cars off, and head back to ... (more)

Caboose as a EOT on this train

As the bay window caboose of an eastbound SP passes us, we can see SP light power approaching in the distance.

8088 on the point of this Southern Style long hood forward helper set as it heads west behind the town of Appalachia on the Clinch Valley district.