Copper Basin Railway caboose “Jake” 017 sits in front of the shop at Hayden, Arizona, on the morning of March 8, 2005. The caboose is named after CBRY’s President and Chief Operating Officer... (more)

One of three. Found in the Santa Fe yard in San Bernardino, California, was an unusual visitor – Waycar 999639. In 1969, Santa Fe rebuilt just three cabooses (what the Santa Fe called W... (more)

The Amqui agent stays in the shade as he hands up orders to the rear end man on a Louisville-bound train.

By the 1980s, GARR's six-day-a-week freights between Macon and the mainline at Camak generally were just a few cars long. On this day, #30 will clear the bridge before the exhaust from the GP40 up... (more)

Norfolk Southern high and wide special, with two Air Products heat exchangers, arrives at Port Reading Junction. The train is passing the site of the former Johns Manville manufacturing plant.

After switching an industry east of Hastings the local shoves west to the yard with a BN caboose leading the way.

A rare site these days, A caboose on a mainline potash train crosses the not so flat prairies.

A caboose brings up the rear on a Union Pacific freight passing through City of Industry, California, in the 1970s.

With their work complete at Kimballton, local V33 crosses Big Stony Creek as they continue up the branch to Kerns. At one time the N&W Potts Valley Branch extended approximately 39 miles along the... (more)

A Santa Fe side-door wooden caboose was photographed in San Bernardino, California, by an unknown photographer in what appears to be the 1940s.

I love the quaint old shortline caboose. This on obviously had some IC influence. I was to this location a couple of years ago, where once stood buildings, tracks, roundhouse there is only a bar... (more)

A blast from the past brings up the rear of an Alaska RR work train at Brookman along the shores of Turnagain Arm. In the background are the Kenai Mountains.

A string of Union Pacific cabooses fill the caboose track at the railroad’s Council Bluffs yard in July 1981, just after a summer rainfall.

A Conrail caboose hop heads west along the Indiana Harbor Belt with a trio of Geeps and a Penn Central caboose. Tom Golden photo.

Caboose on display next to the former NYC, now Lycoming Valley line in Jersey Shore PA.