Now this is a real train set! SP 5623 does some shunting around Brightside Yards, preparing to put the "members train" coaches back into their rightful places. This makes a 'almost-exact' consist ... (more)

CR 21313 an ex Conrail N21 Bay Window Caboose was released back into active service with Norfolk Southern. While that may not seem too interesting, the Caboose was refurbished and repainted into a... (more)

A group of Union Pacific cabooses await a call to serve at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. UP 25729 is a CA-10 model, built new in Aug 1975 and retired from service on May 25, 1989. It would late... (more)

A blast from the past brings up the rear of an Alaska RR work train at Brookman along the shores of Turnagain Arm. In the background are the Kenai Mountains.

A string of Union Pacific cabooses fill the caboose track at the railroad’s Council Bluffs yard in July 1981, just after a summer rainfall.

From a railroad with a fleet of very unique cabooses, the Ann Arbor had a very odd steam-era cab that lacked a cupola, but still managed to make it well into the 70's on the railroad. AA 2700 was ... (more)

A CA-11 caboose guides UP's YRO52R switcher down the Salt Lake Garfield & Western interchange track on Jan. 20, 2014. The Red Iguana 2 Restaurant faces the UP tracks with its ever-present '74 Cadi... (more)

GCK 154 waiting on restoration, along with WMRY 303 and 25 hibernate on this cold day at the Dawson siding with some rolling stock.

On the caboose track near the yard office on a very cold and overcast winter day thirty nine years ago.

Burlington Northern’s Helena local rumbles along the Missouri River at Hardy, Montana, on August 25, 1993. Caboose No. 12604 follows up the 26-car train as it heads west towards Helena Junction,... (more)

The smallest caboose I have seen. Looks like something on a HO Gauge layout.

Put out of business by FREDs
Dozens of Union Pacific cabooses are stored near UP’s shop in Omaha, Nebraska, in July 1983. For most, their fate is not good…

A clean Rio Grande caboose trails Colorado Fuel & Iron ribbon rail west of Provo on May 21, 1990.

Is it just me or do both inner wheels seem smaller?

The low profile of ore cars allows for a great view from the cupola of this extended vision BN caboose as an all-rail ore train enters Wisconsin from Minnesota. The rear of the train contains vete... (more)