In an everyday scene that now seems so alien, a Santa Fe caboose punctuates an eastbound pig train climbing Cajon Pass.

Norfolk Southern mine run U47 backs across Callahan Creek as it makes a reverse move out of the yard at Andover, VA toward the loader at Wentz, VA. The caboose is being used as a shoving platform... (more)

Norfolk Southern caboose 555630 is parked on a siding next to the mainline in downtown Appalachia, VA.

Interlake Steel Corp. had a pair of former N&W transfer cabooses that were used on bottle train service between plants in Chicago and Riverdale. One of them is seen on the rear of a westbound bot... (more)

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie’s influence over the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway evident in the PC&Y’s rolling stock. Rebranded black P&LE SW9’s pulled trains that were trailed b... (more)

A local resident of Thomson, Illinois who lives near the ex-Milwaukee Road trackage has a restored bay window caboose on display in his backyard.

Green Mountain’s Bellows Falls – Rutland train rolls northwest past the Highway 103 crossing at Spring Lake, Vermont.

Orders at Porter. The conductor receives his orders as his train rolls west through Porter Junction in 1977.

TH&B caboose no. 81 shows its Canadian Pacific influence as it is basically a modern CP caboose, sharing the same shade of yellow. It was parked at Hamilton yard along with a mix of TH&B and CP po... (more)

A glossy Chesapeake & Ohio caboose No. 3300 rests at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 9, 2014.

It's just another day on the Cornell local out of Altoona, WI. The rear brakeman throws the switch back to the main after a meet with train 406 at Koll siding on Chippewa Falls' south side. The tr... (more)

GBW caboose #14 waits for the crew to finish switching the car ferry in Kewaunee, WI before heading back to Green Bay in October of 1986. The unused ferry Arthur Atkinson rests in the background.

Soo Line caboose #8 trails a Lake States train travelling along Division Street in Oshkosh, WI in April of 1987. Not a trace of the railroad remains here today.

Are you lost? Companion photo to 645776. MILW caboose 99225 brings up the rear of a coal train thru Belton on the CNW south of Butler Yard in January of 1985. CNW's distinctive semaphore for westb... (more)