As out-of-place as Susquehanna’s antiquated Alcos looked on a stack train, the caboose on the other end was just as much a rarity. By this time, waycars were almost unheard of on intermodal trai... (more)
A Santa Fe caboose hop is seen rolling past Joliet Union Station. Tom Golden photo.
A Monongahela caboose punctuates a coal drag that has just cleared the White Cottage tunnel on the Waynesburg Southern branch. By this time, cabooses were quickly becoming a rarity.
Two Buckingham Branch Geeps and a caboose sit outside of the locomotive shop.
Southern Railway bay window caboose X498 brings up the rear of an eastbound local freight as it crosses the Catawba River Bridge on it's way to Salisbury, NC.
CSX 8662 leads a local west through Hammond as a special B&O heritage caboose trails on an eastbound rail train.
An IHB SW7 is seen bringing a trio of former Santa Fe cabooses east toward Gibson Yard. Tom Golden photo.
A FLASHBACK TO THE PAST! The Hershey shifter works some of the yard tracks in Hershey, PA, shifting cars for the infamous Hershey's Chocolate plant. An old former Conrail caboose was still used in... (more)
Shoving hard on the tail-end CR 6341 and SD45-2 6655 are knuckled onto a CR bay-window caboose, westbound up Horseshoe Curve.
With its former Santa Fe caboose on the rear, the Chicago Short Line is seen departing east from US Steel South Works toward the lift bridge over the Calumet River with an empty bottle train retur... (more)
Conrail N9 transfer caboose 18321 brings up the markers on the Reading & Columbia local, train WHRE-10, at Vinemont, Pennsylvania.
Caboose 999714 almost new in this photo from 1979. BNSF still uses it as a shoving platform at Topeka Ks. as of last year.
BB 223 was originally built as C&O 900251. BB 14 was originally built as SOU 5026A in 1972.
A Pickering Lumber locomotive switches a caboose at Standard. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.
A pair of BRC Centurys leads a caboose hop through the maze of tracks that were Pullman Junction. Tom Golden photo.
