I just saw a train pull through, but only saw the end of it. Green BN caboose #12090(?) was tagged on the rear. Probably not on a train per se, but tagged behind some boxcars. Made my day.[:)]( Some days, it’s the little things that count.)
Almost all work trains have cabooses and so do most locals (Patrols on some roads) that make shoves for any distance - particularly over crossings. And, it is (at least used to be) the policy of BN to have a caboose on all trains over certain territory
Stop lying, you just want us to think that you are cool. Okay, you’re just lucky, and I’m jealous.
Here in Los Angeles County, I see a couple old Santa Fe Cabooses on the spurs at Corona, as well as the one going to the Irwingdale Miller Brewery.
This is a picture of the Laurel Yard in just outside of Billings,MT where all of their yard switchers are using cabooses.
OK show-offs.[:)] In my part of the world, I truely can’t remember the las time I saw a moving caboose.
Ah, Calgary…there are several locals that go to industries between here and the mountains that have good ol’ yellow vans on them, and I have seen three on the mainline outside of yard limits in one day! [:d]
I’ve seen MRL using them in Missoula, too.
Hey trainboy16H-44!
Those two yard trains - 1500 & 1600 series - have cabooses they use. Cabooses 434711 & 434609. They work out of the 9th Ave. yard just before you cross the Elbow River going into Inglewood. [:D]
I have seen a caboose on the end of a special train (had one loco, two huge flatcars, and a Norfolk Southern Caboose)
It is entirely possible that Murphy Siding saw a BN caboose on the end of a train. While Murphy Siding and I do not know each other and have actually never met, I am willing to vouch for what he is saying. There is a green BN caboose with yellow ends in the BNSF’s Sioux Falls Yard, down by 8th street, and it is always there. Murphy Siding and I live in the same community, within a mile of each other.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
Union Railroad in western PA uses cabooses all the time too. I heard this is because a lot of their trains require backing up under coal loaders at the Duquesne wharf near Pittsburgh.
What’s a caboose?[(-D]
Some peoplesay your old if you can remember when all trains had cabeese,but to not rememebr when they were invented…well…how was meeting George Pullman?[:D]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35
Ok, that’s the unofficial word of the day.[8D]
Yep, I know about them, saw one of them last week when I went railfanning before school. I do prefer the ones on the locals, because it hearkens back to the 80s, with GP38-2s powering them and cabooses on the mainline running at 40MPH track speed…
And just because my sig says All FREDs are EOTs, but not all EOTs are FREDs, does not mean that I like those little boxes instead of cabooses!
Help me out here… I know he was a goalie. What team did he play for? [(-D] [(-D] [(-D] [(-D]
Speaking of that, how about the TV commercial for the alleged memory-improvement pills?
Great tag line: “Take our pills and forget your memory problems!”
hmm someone needs a video of the pullman railcar company. they made passenger cars george pullman was the president of the company.as far as cabeese there are 2 chessies in garrett in the yard,one in the c&o yard in fostoria and defiance yard uses one here in town too.
stay safe
Joe
Caboose, SE SD. There an article in Trains magazine some years ago about the BN ex-Millwaukee Road branch in SW Iowa that always used a caboose. I forget the name of the branch. It’s still in service as far as I understand it.
CC
What will the RR’s do when all of the old caboose’s are retired from service? Any chance of new one being built?
Rich
As of this morning, the caboose migrated back to the yard, and is set on a little used track with a rusty, old snowplow that gets moved around in the yard. Which makes me wonder…What, if anything, needs to be done t a piece of railroad equipment that has been sitting in one spot for a while? (sometimes years.) Can you just hook up and go with it? Do you have to check to see if the wheels are rusted to the rail first?[;)]