On a rainy spring morning, the Grafton & Upton's daily freight between Hopedale and North Grafton makes its way through West Upton, MA, behind Alco S4 1001. Unlike many small shortlines at the tim... (more)

Former Southern Pacific class C-40-3 caboose 1057 is on display at the Helldorado Town in Tombstone, Arizona. The Southern Pacific and companion railroad Texas & New Orleans had rostered 215 of th... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande steel cupola caboose 01415 was found in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 28, 1973. This order of cabooses, 01410-01419, was built the Rio Grande’s Burnham Ships in August and Sep... (more)

The rear of a coal train bound for Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station rolls through Bangor, Pennsylvania. I’m standing in what was once a modest yard, and to the left, there was... (more)

After photographing an eastbound Conrail train entering Reading on the Lebanon Valley line, we crossed 4th street to shoot ... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 at Owosso, MI posed next to a PM caboose.

The St. Louis-San Francisco railroad was the first to purchase a new caboose design offered by International Car Company, featuring a wider-than-normal cupola, providing the best of both cupola ca... (more)

An unusual find at the Burnham yard in 1977.

The Portland Terminal Railroad was once an interurban railroad that had, since the mid-1950s, been owned 50/50 by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads to handle the remaining freight b... (more)

“Just When Is My Birthday?”
NW 518639 (class C-31P) cupola caboose was photographed at Vardo Yard (Hagerstown, MD) on 06/27/1987. Despite a build date of “12-69” stenciled on the... (more)

The UP 4014 Big Boy sits next to the Prescott Depot and caboose on a very cold, 18 degree morning.

Beginning in 1966, the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway began a program to rebuild their fleet of aging American Car & Foundry cabooses … er … waycars (as they are called on the Santa Fe), s... (more)

Norfolk Southern "mine run" U47 is backing their train on the former Interstate Railroad toward the coal loading facility at Wentz, Virginia with a caboose as a shoving platform. The tra... (more)

ATSF 999399 brings up the rear of a westbound Santa Fe freight train as the train passes by Joliet Tower. The tower is across the tracks from Joliet Union Station which served Amtrak, Illinois Cen... (more)

Bringing up the markers on a Union Pacific freight is CA-8 class caboose 25513. (Verdemont, California - April 1980