Even in 2018, a caboose is a conductors best friend! Norfolk Southern local L91 has gone into town to switch the industries, and is seen here shoving back to East Wayne Yard with former N&W caboos... (more)

UP caboose's 25461 and 25815 trail a westbound freight along Hwy 30 near North Platte, NE in May of 1989.

A trio of cabs bring up the rear of a westbound freight east of Horseshoe Curve (~MP 240).

An eastbound CP freight kicks up the snow at Ruskin, BC after a blizzard has hit the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver in February 1986.

A C&NW local rolls west past the C&NW passenger station at Eau Claire, WI. The railroad still used the station at this time for the freight agent, but in several years it would be torn down. At th... (more)

A reverse move westward is in progress on this former B&O Chicago Terminal line, with some pretty fancy shove protection at the rear of this train.

Burlington Northern caboose No. 10037 trails eastbound empties at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on August 9, 1991. The locomotives of the short train have just passed the power of a coal load in th... (more)

A privately owned engine and caboose head north on the Newport Secondary track following a rare Old Colony & Newport charter extra. Once both trains reached "Humpback" in Portsmouth, JPE... (more)

A nicely-painted Chicago, Burlington & Quincy wide-vision caboose sits just outside the Aurora Transportation Center and alongside the Metra platform at Aurora, Illinois, on November 10, 2017. The... (more)

An ex BN caboose sits in the sun in BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis. With the windows plated over, this caboose is now only used as a shoving platform.

CP caboose 434640 kicks up the snow as a westbound freight storms through Yale, BC in near blizzard conditions. The train is transitioning from the Fraser Canyon to the lower Fraser Valley on its ... (more)

Former CP Rail Caboose 437473 along with SW1200RS 8120 on display at Lake of the Woods Railroad Museum in Kenora.

On Turkey Day 2017, Oregon Pacifics newest addition hangs out at Barnes Yard after coming east.

The conductor of NS U45 rides on the platform of the caboose as the empty coal train makes a reverse move off of the Clinch Valley mainline and onto the Big Toms Creek Branch. The train is about ... (more)

Earlier I posted a shot of this train crossing Hurricane Gulch. What was even more amazing was that this train was trailing a caboose. The Alaska RR work trains still use 1 of the 3 still in servi... (more)