gentlemen, THIS is why it annoys the crap out of me when people call locomotives “she” and “her” etc etc. it leads to stuff like this.
Would you rather think of them as a He or Him? [:-^]
i call them "it"s like they are. they’re genderless machines
kinky [:P]
Nothin’ worse than poppin the long hood off what you thought was an as-built Illinois Terminal GP20, only to find out it was only altered that way.[sigh][banghead][(-D][(-D][(-D]
I think you may have hit upon the real reason they did away with cabooses.
What’s that, the not-so-survivablity factor of many cabooses when rear ended? I could see that. the liability on injured rear crews had to be getting high.
Cabeese=Winnebago’s…They call them shoving platforms now to remove the stigma.