Cabooses or Cabeese?

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That makes perfect sense since the definition of heinie is a person’s buttocks. That would be perfectly appropriate for the definition of caboose (rear end).

I don’t know how long the cabeese humor thing has been going on in this forum. I do know prior to Christmas of this last year Ed, gmpullman posted it on show me something and I busted a gut. I was having a scotch at that time. And I do remember blowing it across the room.

That’s when I first saw it. I posted back to him and told him of course it’s cabeese, more than one goose is geese, so that works. I don’t know if he came up with it or it’s been going on long before that??? … but in the two years I’ve been here, I never seen it prior to that.

TF

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On the Pennsylvania we had “Cabin Car(s)”.

It was a “switch”, not a turnout.

A “motor” was an electric locomotive.

A switch engine was a “Shifter” or “Drill”.

And you can use what ever terminology you feel is correct. BTW, in Canada (at least on the CN), it was a Van or the French equivalent.

Boris

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Well, cabooses do bring up the rear!

Dave