Greetings,
Saw something last night I haven’t seen in a while. A “real” train on the mainline. It had a locomotive, some cars, and now the shocker “A CABOOSE”. Even though it was a local patrol, that patrol doesn’t usually have a caboose on it. Below are some photos of the “Lake” job as it heads southbound out of Milwaukee at Waterford Ave towards Oak Creek to do some switching. Unfortunately it was an over cast evening so the pictures are a little dark.
Keith
YEA! Nice shots man, I LOVE THE SOO LINE, so there for i love your shots! Nice job.
Alec
Nice pictures of the SOO!!!
very cool pics of the SOO. But I’m[:(] to see the grafftie on the nice red caboose
Speaking of Soo cabooses, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, we are currently finishing repainting a Soo caboose!!
Pretty dang cool!!!
Nice work,
Adrianspeeder
im not sure that is graffiti on the caboose…
Soo line is awesome Cabosses are even better these days!!! Great pics
A caboose on the mainline these days is like a needle in a haystack.
Nice photos. When CN makes a switching move form Manitowoc north to the lime quarry at Rockwood they push a caboose (in WC colors) on the front of the train with the loco at the rear and a man occupies the caboose, probably to watch the crossings. This track is the former C&NW main line from Green Bay to Milwaukee now abandoned between Rockwood and Denmark.
We have exactly the same thing happening in Dover, Delaware only the caboose is Conrail blue (with matching black & white graffiti). The consist is only a few tank cars, so I guess their being spotted at some plant on the opposite side of the city.
…Yes, “a real train”…Removing the caboose from trains did eliminate some of the completeness of the makeup. Just seems like a string of “coupled cars” now and with the caboose the train seemed to have a beginning and an end…now it’s like something is missing…something left behind. Guess for the younger set that are not familiar with a caboose…wonder what that is doing on there when one is spotted.
Speaking of cabooses… I was in West Chicago yesterday @ 4pm. I heard Omaha DS11 give instructions to an eastbound freight that they were to follow 510 (Metra) to Turner and then shove back to the “J” (EJE). The normal procedure in W. Chicago these days is for any train connecting to the “J” to run-trhough the yard to the new loop connecting track (south/eastbounds). Anyway, the crew radioed back that they had contacted the “J” dispatcher and that he/she had instructed for them to use a caboose on the shove back to the “J”! Omaha dispatcher 11’s response was something along the lines of, they want us to use what to on the shove back. I personally haven’t seen a caboose in the W. Chicago Yard in many years. Maybe there’s one hidden somewhere.
CC
Greetings,
Great to hear other caboose stories. They were always the way a train ended.
Nice to hear about the Lake Superior Railroad Museum painting a Soo Caboose. I was up in Duluth in May 2005 when Milw #261 came for a visit. I rode the excursion from Duluth up to Two Harbors. Great Ride and great scenery.
Keith
That Soo Line train is awsome, man you don’t get too much better than that these days in terms of vintage railroading unless you go to a tourist line or something like that. I wish I could get a glimps (spelling) of a real train like that around here. The only trace of a caboose around here I’ve seen is an abandond one along the NEC in North Philadelphia, it’s an old PRR caboose.
Im always happy to see a caboose. They are what makes a train “REAL”.
Cabooses are really cool. I havn’t seen one on a train in a very long time, but I do see a few “shorty” trains like this one. Looks like something you’d get in a train set; an engine, few cars and a caboose.[:D]
There is a train that comes though on the southside. Beleave it is a soo train it runs on the North/ south CP line on. Ocasonally they have a caboose they do the switching down in bayview. The train goes down the industaral supur with containers to be put on the ship and also has a few concreate cars that go over to the. Concreate plant down by the lake. The caboose they use is a double decker caboose.
Fantastic pictures! Thanks for sharing this amazing find with us! I definetly agree, it’s not a real freight train unless it has a caboose on the end. I’ve always loved cabooses. I’m old enought to just remember the last days of cabooses on trains.