I know ETU’s are here to stay & have been around for awhile but somehow, to me, a train still doesn’t look complete without a caboose at the end of it.
How does everyone else here feel about the caboose missing from most frieghts[?]
The only time I see cabooses is at the end of a yard switcher on its way to doing shunt work in a industrial yard. Anyone else see cabooses on frieghts[?]
Not much anymore. I have seen a few cabooses running but for the most part there mostly gone. I wi***hey would bring the caboose back. I love riding in the cupola.[:D]
James
Yeah I have seen a couple of cabooses around just last week.I seen one car train with a caboose it was on a switching job and also a saw sooline train with caboose it was one of those double decker type of cabooses which. I think are the best but anywho then again all cabooses are the best and I’m kinda sad that they have dissapared from the rails of america. And who knows they may actually come back one day.
Here in Manitowoc, WI the CN local uses a caboose when they make a switching move out to Rockwood a few miles north of town on the old C & NW main line to Green Bay. The caboose comes first when northbound, then the freight cars followed by the locomotive. A crew member rides in the caboose to watch the crossings. Returning to town the train is in proper order, i.e. loco, cars and caboose. The tracks are gone between Rockwood and Green Bay and in Rockwood there is no way to switch the loco from one end of the train to the other which is why the caboose is used, I suppose. The caboose they currently use is painted for Wisconsin Central and has a cupola, the other one I have seen was also WC and had a bay window.
Back in 94 I got the chance to ride in a caboose on the Canadian National line that ran from North Kamloops to Kelowna. Canadian National sold that line & is known as Kelowna Pacific. It was an experience I wouldn’t have traded for anything. It gives one a entirely different perspective on the surroundings one goes through. In the Okanagan of British Columbia the train tracks follow the lakeshore, whereas the highway is high on the hills & a good part of the time one doesn’t see much of the lakes.